Alloa Athletic
| Alloa Athletic | |||
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| Surname | Alloa Athletic Football Club | ||
| Seat | Alloa , Scotland | ||
| founding | 1878 as Clackmannan County | ||
| president |
 Mike Mulraney
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| Website | alloaathletic.co.uk | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Peter Grant
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| Venue | Recreation Park | ||
| Places | 3,100 | ||
| league | Scottish Championship | ||
| 2019/2020 | 8th place | ||
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Alloa Athletic (officially: Alloa Athletic Football Club ) is a Scottish football club from Alloa . The club plays in the Scottish Championship , the second highest division in Scottish football. The club has played its home games in Recreation Park since 1895 .
history
The club, founded in 1878, joined the Scottish Football League for the first time in 1921 , where it was able to win the championship straight away in the second-rate Division Two with a clear 13-point gap and move up to the Scottish elite league. A player named "Wee" Willy Crilly had scored 49 goals. The stay there lasted only a year and after the immediate relegation, the club always played in the second division before returning to Division One with a second place at the end of the 1938/39 season . The renewed participation there, however, was terminated prematurely after only five games due to the cancellation of official game operations due to the beginning of the Second World War . After the resumption of the championship round, Alloa Athletic was incorporated back into the second division as part of a reorganization.
In the further course of the 1950s and 1960s successes of the "Wasps" were largely absent, but at this time the club brought out its most famous player, John White - a later Scottish international and top performer of Tottenham Hotspur . When the Scottish Premier Division was introduced as the new top division for the 1975/76 season , Alloa Athletic could not keep himself in the newly organized second division by his twelfth place in 1975 and played two years in the now "Division Two" called third League. Under the coach Hugh Wilson managed to return to the now "Division One" called the second division. There, however, the club was just as unable to hold as in the following years of promotion. Up until the end of the 1980s, the ascents in 1985 and 1989 were followed by an immediate relapse into the third class in the following year. Only in the 1982/83 season could the class be held for a year after advancing through a good sixth place.
After further modifications in the Scottish league system, Alloa was only a participant in the newly founded fourth-class Third Division in 1995 . There you could win the first league championship since 1922 under coach Tom Hendrie in 1998 and established yourself again in the third division, with a 7-0 win against local rivals Stirling Albion being the highlight of the season. When Hendrie left the club for St. Mirren FC , Terry Christie took over the team leadership and led the club in 2000 to win the Challenge Cup . Only a few months later, the promotion to the second division followed, but again where they could not hold and 2001 had to leave the league as bottom of the table again. A similar fate befell the club two years later, when the Wasps - but now only because of the worse goal difference - finished the first division season as the bottom of the table.
From 2003 Alloa played in the third division Second Division and was threateningly close to relegation to the fourth division in the course of the 2005/06 season due to a 14-point gap. However, under the new coach Allan Maitland , the U-turn was achieved. The relegation games ultimately managed to stay in the league.
After the end of the 2007/08 season they were even able to take fourth place and thus played in the play-offs for the Scottish Football League First Division . There they met the higher-class FC Clyde and had to admit defeat after a penalty shoot-out. 2010/11 was followed by relegation to the Third Division, from which they returned as champions a year later.
successes
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Scottish League Challenge Cup :
- Winner (1): 2000
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Scottish Division Two :
- Master (1): 1921/22
- Scottish Third Division :
Coach chronicle
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Jimmy Crapnell (1946)
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Tommy Lipton (1946-1947)
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Jimmy Simpson (1947-1948)
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Bobby Hogg (1948-1949)
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Tommy Lipton (1949-1951)
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David McCulloch (1951-1952)
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Webber Lees (1952–1955)
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Jerry Kerr (1955-1959)
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Archie McPherson (1959-1969)
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Duncan McCallum (1969-1971)
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Ian Crawford (1971–1972)
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Dan McLindon (1972–1974)
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Hugh Wilson (1974–1980)
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Alex Totten (1980-1982)
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Willie Garner (1982-1984)
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Jimmy Thomson (1984-1986)
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Dom Sullivan (1986-1987)
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Gregor Abel (1987–1990)
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Pat McAuley (1995-1996)
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Tom Hendrie (1996-1998)
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Terry Christie (1999-2003)
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Tom Hendrie (2003-2006)
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Allan Maitland (2006-present)