Alloa Athletic F.C.

There is some dispute over the foundation date of Alloa Athletic. The official club version has the club being founded in 1878. However, recent research has produced information that states that The Alloa Football Club was formed on 6 August 1880 at a meeting held in McGechaen's Hall and instigated by James Rigg, who became the first captain. The club soon changed its name to Alloa Association which led to A.A.F.C. being misinterpreted by the Dunfermline secretary in October 1880, and Alloa Athletic being reported in the Dunfermline press. The club liked this name better, and so adopted it in 1881. It has often been claimed that the club was originally Clackmannan County. Although several of its players joined Alloa, this was a separate club, formed in September 1879, and who Alloa played several times during the 1880–81 season. Admitted to the Scottish Football Association in 1883, the club had to wait until 1921 to be elected to the Scottish Football League. In 1906–07, the club were Scottish Football Union champions and won the Central Football League six years later, with two runners-up finishes in-between. Alloa won the Scottish Football League Division Two title in their first season but were immediately relegated from the top flight the following season. Promotion was achieved again in 1938–39 but the onset of the Second World War saw the new season curtailed after just five games. When the leagues were re-organised after the war, Alloa were placed back in Division…

League

Division Two (before 1975) and First Division (after 1975): Winners (1): 1921–22 Runners-up (1): 1938–39 Second Division (after 1975) and League One (after 2013): Runners-up (9): 1976–77, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1988–89, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2016–17 Third Division (after 1994): Winners (2): 1997–98, 2011–12 Central Football League: Winners (1): 1912–13 Runners-up (2): 1909–10, 1911–12 Scottish Football Union: Champions (1): 1906–07

Cup

Scottish Challenge Cup: Winners (1): 1999 Runners-up (2): 2001, 2015 Stirlingshire Cup: Winners (14): 1904–05, 1907–08, 1908–09, 1912–13, 1920–21, 1924–25, 1933–34, 1946–47, 1955–56, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1965–66, 1981–82, 1996–97 Runners-up (20): 1905–06, 1906–07, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1960–61, 1968–69, 1983–84, 1993–94, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2000–01 Fife Cup: Winners (3): 1885–86, 1895–96, 1897–98 Runners-up (1): 1883–84