Brechin City F.C.

Early years

The club was founded in 1906 by players and officials from two comparatively successful local junior sides – Brechin Harp and Brechin Hearts. A deputation from the Forfarshire Football Association had met with representatives of the local game at the Temperance Hall in City Road and managed to persuade them that Brechin would benefit from having a single senior club. Although Brechin Harp folded with the establishment of the senior side, Brechin Hearts continued as a viable and successful Junior side until the years of the Great War. The club won its first important local honour, the Forfarshire Cup, in the 1909–10 season with a side that featured nine players from the town. The club moved to their Glebe Park home in 1919, a stadium which currently has a capacity of 4,123 (1,519 seated) and is famous for the hedge that runs alongside one side of the pitch.

Joining the league

The team was admitted to the Scottish league in 1923 with the formation of the original Third Division. However, City struggled, finishing bottom of the League in that first season. The club failed to make any headway in the doomed division and disappeared from the Scottish League at the end of the 1925–26 season along with most of the other teams in the division. The club was not away long, as it returned to the League for the 1929–30 season following the departure of Bathgate and Arthurlie the previous season. Once again the club finished rock bottom. The club continued to…

Second Division Champions: 1982–83, 1989–90, 2004–05 Runners-Up: 1992–93, 2002–03 Play-off winners: 2016–17 Third Division Champions: 2001–02 Runners-Up: 1995–96 Highland League Champions: 2022–23 Challenge Cup Runners-Up: 2002–03 Forfarshire Cup Champions: 1909–10, 1952–53, 1958–59, 1996–97, 2008–09 Scottish League Division C Champions: 1953–54 Scottish Qualifying Cup Champions: 1950–51 Keith Tournament Champions: 1982–83