Inverness City F.C.

Inverness City Football Club was a Scottish football club from Inverness. Their home strip was white and black with their change strip being red.

Inverness City
Full nameInverness City Football Club
Nickname(s)City
Founded2006
Dissolved2019
GroundLister Park
Bught Park, Inverness[1]
Capacity1000[2]
ChairmanAlastair Wardhaugh
ManagerKevin McLeod
LeagueNone
2017–18SJFA North Super League, 14th of 14 (relegated)

The club entered the North Caledonian Football League in the 2006–07 season and originally played their games at Ferry Brae Park in North Kessock and won their first trophy when they beat Golspie Sutherland in the Jock Mackay Memorial Cup. They also won the Football Times Cup when again they triumphed over Golspie 3–2. In Season 2007–08 they again reached the Jock Mackay Memorial Cup Final but were beaten this time on penalties by Golspie Sutherland.

For Season 2008–09 Inverness City successfully applied to the Scottish Junior Football Association for membership and started life as a Junior team in the North Region Division 2. They finally moved into Inverness where their home games were played at the Northern Meeting Park. They were also eligible to play in the Scottish Junior Cup. The Meeting Park venue was the cause of some controversy due to its use by a cricket side during the summer months.

In their inaugural season, Inverness City won the Scotscoup Division 2 Junior League and the Elginshire Cup where they defeated Bishopmill United 3–0 in the final to complete an historic double.

For three seasons, City had qualified for promotion to the North Superleague but were denied entry, owing to the club not having access to the Northern Meeting Park for the full duration of the playing season. The club eventually managed to secure a playing facility at the Bught Park in Inverness that was compliant with 'Superleague' criteria - thus enabling the club to obtain promotion.[3]

After being relegated from the Superleague at the end of the 2017–18 season, Inverness City announced they were taking a year out of Junior football. They had hoped to move to a new ground on the outskirts of the city, but the facility was unlikely to be ready for the start of the season and the club felt that playing out of another ground outwith Inverness would not be cost-effective and that they would struggle to attract players. The club remained as non-playing members of the Association and hoped to return in season 2019/20.[4] However, despite these hopes, the club were forced to fold due to lack of ground in 2019.[5]

Honours
  • PMAC Group Division 1
    • Winners: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
    • Runners Up: 2009–10
  • Scotscoup Division 2
    • Champions: 2008–09
  • North Regional Cup
    • Runners Up: 2011–12
  • Grill Cup
    • Runners Up: 2010–11, 2011–12
  • Morrison Cup
    • Runners Up: 2009–10
  • Elginshire Cup
    • Winners: 2008–09
  • Jock Mackay Memorial Cup
    • Winners: 2006–07
    • Runners Up: 2007–08
  • Football Times Cup
    • Winners: 2006–07

Records

Scottish Junior Cup
  • Best performance:
    • Third Round 2012–13

League records
  • Biggest home victory:
    • Inverness City 10–0 New Elgin, Saturday 9 October 2010
  • Biggest away victory:
  • Biggest home defeat:
    • Inverness City 1–4 Nairn St. Ninian, Saturday 15 November 2008
  • Biggest away defeat:
    • Whitehills 5–2 Inverness City, Saturday 6 September 2008
    • Deveronside 5–2 Inverness City, Saturday 18 October 2008
    • Glentanar 4–1 Inverness City, Saturday 5 September 2009

References
  1. Linton, Graham (6 August 2013). "City prepare to open new ground". Inverness Courier. Inverness.
  2. "Inverness City". Non League Scotland. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  3. "Pitch headache puts future of Inverness City champs in doubt". North Star. Inverness. 9 May 2011.
  4. Inverness City To Take A Year Out, North Region JFA
  5. Despair as Inverness junior football club forced to disband, Press & Journal, 10 May 2019
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