Arthurlie F.C.

Arthurlie was founded in 1874 and played as a senior side until 1929. The club reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup in three consecutive seasons from 1880–81, with their 1883 tie with Kilmarnock Athletic taking four games to settle. A notable early result was a 4–2 defeat of Celtic in the first round of the 1896–97 Scottish Cup. Celtic avenged this defeat with a 7–0 victory in Barrhead at the same stage the following season and the two clubs met again in Arthurlie's last Scottish Cup tie to date in 1929, with the Glasgow side winning 5–1 at Celtic Park. With regard to league football, the club became a founder member of the Scottish Football Federation in 1891, winning that competition in its first year before joining the Scottish Football Alliance in 1893. Arthurlie obtained membership of the Scottish Football League in 1901 and achieved modest results in the Second Division, with a highest finish of joint second in 1906–07. That division ceased operations in 1915, during the First World War, but Arthurlie did not immediately rejoin the league after the war ended. They instead waited until 1923 to apply for membership of the newly created Third Division. Arthurlie immediately won the Third Division championship, and four reasonably successful seasons in the Second Division followed. Financial problems forced the club to resign its membership of the league with six games of the 1928–29 season to play. As the club had played all the promotion-chasing clubs, their…

League

Scottish Football League Division Three champions 1923–24 Scottish Federation Champions 1891–92 Scottish Combination Champions 1900–01 SJFA West Region Division One champions 2002–03 Central Junior League Premier Division champions 1987–88, 1988–89, 1993–94, 2000–01 Western Division champions 1936–37 Division B champions 1942–43 West of Scotland Football League Conference A winners: 2021–22 First Division winners: 2024–25

Cup

Scottish Junior Cup Winners: 1936–37, 1997–98 Runners-up: 1945–46, 1980–81, 2023–24 Scottish Consolation Cup Winners 1910 Western League League Cup winners 1924 Renfrewshire FA Challenge Cup Winners 1881, 1882 Renfrewshire Junior FA Challenge Cup Winners – 1934, 1945, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957 West of Scotland Challenge Cup Winners 1943, 1976, 1978, 1997, 2011, 2015 Renfrewshire & Dumbartonshire Cup Winners 1934, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1960 Evening Times Trophy Winners 1937, 1946 Evening Times Cup Winners Trophy Winners 1987, 1989, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2011 Central Junior League League Cup winners 1939, 1987, 1991, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2008 Sectional League Cup winners 1979, 1987, 2009, 2010 JC Alan Challenge Cup: Winners 2012 Champions League winners 1972, 1985