Irvine Meadow XI F.C.

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clubname = Irvine Meadow


fullname = Irvine Meadow XI Football Club
nickname = The Medda | The Mighty Dow founded = 1897
ground = Meadow Park,
Irvine
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Irvine Meadow XI F.C. are a Scottish junior football (soccer) club, from Irvine, North Ayrshire. They are currently playing in the Stagecoach Super League Premier Division of the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region.

History

Formed in 1897 they are one of the oldest Ayrshire Junior clubs still playing. Of the two junior football clubs in Irvine (the other being Irvine Victoria) they are the larger. Indeed, they are traditionally one of the biggest Junior clubs in Scotland.

They have had a tumultuous and fairly barren period in recent times, however this has changed in the past few seasons, buying players from senior teams such as Brian McGinty and Mark Crilly with them doing well in the Scottish Junior Cup, winning promotion from the Stagecoach Ayrshire League in 2005-06 and winning promotion from the Stagecoach Super League Division One in 2006-07. But it is also noted that money can't buy success and this was easily shown when they went out of the Scottish Junior Cup at an early stage as well as losing the league Cup Final to Auchinleck Talbot in Autumn 2007.

They are based at Meadow Park and play in royal blue. They are commonly called 'the Medda' by their fans.

Irvine Meadow's closest rivals are Kilwinning Rangers, who are based in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and Irvine Victoria F.C., who play on the other side of the town at Victoria Park.

Trivia

Meadow have set many attendance records at other Junior club's grounds and were at one stage invited to turn senior and play in the Scottish Football League. They decided to remain in the 'juniors' and at present compete in the Western Region Junior League.

Irvine Meadow were the first junior club in Scotland to have a home game televised when the 1958 Scottish Cup tie against Fauldhouse Utd was shown on Scotsport.

Meadow are the only junior football club to have travelled by air to a game when they went to St.Andrews to play Birmingham City in a match in which they lost 3-2.

They play local rivals Irvine Victoria every August in an annual derby fixture to coincide with Irvine's Marymass Festival. After recent dominance in the fixture over the past decade, Meadow lost 4-3 at Meadow Park in 2006, the first time in 9 years that they have not won the fixture.

Honours

Scottish Junior Cup

* Winners: 1958-59, 1962-63, 1972-73
* Runners-up: 1947-48, 1950-51

=West Division One=

* Champions: 2006-07

Other Honours

* West of Scotland Cup: 1931-32, 1950-51, 1955-56, 1961-62, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1989-90
* Ayrshire First Division winners: 1921-22, 1928-29, 1932-33, 1948-49, 1950-51, 1954-55, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1960-61, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1988-89, 1993-94
* Ayrshire Second Division winners: 1998-99
* Stagecoach Ayrshire League 2005-06
* Ayrshire Cup: 1898-99, 1900-01, 1903-04, 1913-14, 1931-32, 1953-54, 1957-58, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1983-84, 1984-85, 2005-06, 2006-07
* Ayrshire League Cup: 1927-28, 1928-29, 1950-51, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1961-62, 1982-83
* Ayrshire District Cup: 1899-00, 1903-04, 1909-10, 1913-14, 1914-15, 1932-33, 1938-39, 1946-47, 1950-51, 1951-52, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1957-58, 1970-71, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1981-82, 1987-88.
* Cunninghame District Cup: 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1994-95
* North Ayrshire Cup: 1996-97, 2002-03
* Western Intermediate League Cup: 1927-28, 1928-29
* Irvine & District League: 1910-11
*Dryborough Cup 1972-73.
*Ayrshire Consolation Cup: 1914-15,1915-16,1932-33.
*Gay Pirates Of Ayrshire Cup: 1916-17
*Ayrshire Charity Cup: 1934-35.
*Moore Trophy 1932-33,1938-39.
*Vernon Trophy: 1949-50,1952-53,1960-61.
*Irvine Herald Cup: 1898-99,1914-15,1924-25.
*St Vincent de Paul Cup:1933-34.
*Evening Times Super Cup 2005-06
*Stagecoach Super League First Division: 2006-07
* Kerr & Smith League Cup: 2003-04

External links

* [http://www.medda.co.uk/ Official Site]