Honours

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Records

Record Attendance
6,300 (v Dundee United, 1995)

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Colours

White with black/red facings

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Notes

Clyde Football Club are a Scottish professional football team currently playing in the First Division of the Scottish Football League. They are currently managed by John Brown. Although based for the last decade in the new town of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, they are traditionally associated with an area that covers Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire and south east Glasgow. They are not to be confused with either Clydesdale F.C. or Clydebank F.C.

Their greatest triumph is having lifted the Scottish Cup three times, the most recent being in 1958.

The Clyde Football Club was founded and played on the banks of the River Clyde at Barrowfield. Documentary evidence from the SFA and indeed match reports in the Glasgow press clearly show it all began in 1877, and the thread continues unbroken to this day.

Here’s how the SFA recorded Clyde’s origins:

Sitting on the edge of Bridgeton, Barrowfield Park lay in a triangle of land enclosed by Carstairs Street, Colvend Street and the river Clyde. The area was an intense mix of chemical, engineering and textile works with a high population density to provide the labour. Although no stadium photographs have emerged it appears the ground

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