Bathgate Thistle F.C.

Bathgate Thistle F.C.

Full name	Bathgate Thistle Football Club
Nickname(s)	Thistle
Founded	1937
Ground	Creamery Park Hardhill Road Bathgate
Ground Capacity	2,000
President	Jim Walker
Manager	Andrew Colley
League	SJFA East Premier League
2014–15	13th
Home colours Away colours

Bathgate Thistle Football Club are a Scottish junior football club, based in the town of Bathgate, West Lothian. They play in the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region Premier League.

Nicknamed Thistle, they were formed in 1937 and presently play their home games at Creamery Park, which has room for 2,437 spectators. Their home shirts are blue with a white trim and their away shirts are black with a white trim.

In 2006, Thistle reached the final of the Scottish Junior Cup, losing 2–1 to Auchinleck Talbot at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, in front of around 7,000 spectators. In 2008, the club reached the final again, this time defeating Cumnock Juniors 2–1.

Thistle formed part of a new united community football club involving the town's youth and amateur sides in February 2013. The Junior side is managed since July 2013 by Bobby Main.

Honours

Scottish Junior Cup

• Winners: 2007–08
• Runners-up: 2005–06

Other Honours

• East Region Division Two champions: 1986–87, 1990–91
• East of Scotland Junior Cup winners: 1941–42, 2006–07
• St. Michael Cup winners: 1940–41, 1959–60, 2000–01
• Brown Cup winners: 1941–42
• Thornton Shield winners: 1943–44, 1944–45
• RL Rae Cup winners: 1965–66 – Manager was William Ross Smith (ex-Partick Thistle, Queen of the South and Berwick Rangers)
• Fife and Lothians Cup winners: 2009–10

External links

• Official website