Ayr United F.C.

Ayr United were founded in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C. Although Inverness Caledonian Thistle are also the product of a merger between two clubs, Ayr United are the only Scottish Football League club to have been formed from a merger of two existing league clubs. The club's honours include winning six Second Division titles (as the second tier championship) and a further three titles (as the third tier championship), most recently in 2017–18. They have not won any national cup competitions, although they were runners-up in the 2001–02 Scottish League Cup, and in the Scottish Challenge Cup in the first two seasons in which the competition was held: 1990–91 and 1991–92. They have won the local competition the Ayrshire Cup on 26 occasions, most commonly facing fierce local rivals Kilmarnock in the final. The Ayrshire Cup was last played for in season 1996–97, since when the competition has been suspended. The club's record scorer in a single season is Jimmy Smith, who scored 66 goals for Ayr in only 38 league matches in 1927–28 and currently holds the British goalscoring record for the most league goals scored in a single season. The club's overall record scorer is Peter Price, who scored 213 times in competitive matches for the club between 1955 and 1962. Former Scotland national team manager Ally MacLeod is regarded as the club's most famous and most successful manager. He led the club on three occasions spanning 15 years, during which his teams recorded a…

Domestic

League

Scottish second tier (Division Two, Division B, First Division, Championship) Winners (6): 1911–12, 1912–13, 1927–28, 1936–37, 1958–59, 1965–66 Runners-up (5): 1910–11, 1955–56, 1968–69, 2000–01, 2022–23 Scottish third tier (Second Division, League One) Winners (3): 1987–88, 1996–97, 2017–18 Runners-up (3): 2008–09, 2010–11, 2015–16 Play-off winners (3): 2008–09, 2010–11, 2015–16

Cups

Scottish League Cup Runners-up (1): 2001–02 Scottish Challenge Cup Runners-up (2): 1990–91, 1991–92

Regional

Ayrshire Cup Winners (26): 1911–12, 1925–26, 1928–29, 1932–33, 1935–36, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1949–50, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1964–65, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1994–95, 1996–97 Ayr Charity Cup Winners (17): 1911–12, 1912–13, 1913–14, 1914–15, 1915–16, 1918–19, 1920–21, 1923–24, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32, 1935–36, 1937–38, 1951–52 Kilmarnock Charity Cup Winners (4): 1930–31, 1932–33, 1935–36, 1936–37