East Stirlingshire FC
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| Surname | East Stirlingshire Football Club | ||
| Seat | Falkirk | ||
| founding | 1881 | ||
| president |
 Alan Archibald
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| Website | eaststirlingshirefc.co.uk | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
John Sludden
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| Venue | Ochilview Park | ||
| Places | 3,776 | ||
| league | Lowland Football League | ||
| 2018/2019 | 6th place | ||
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The FC East Stirlingshire (officially: East Stirlingshire Football Club ) is a Scottish football club from Falkirk . The club currently plays in the Lowland Football League , one of the two fifth-tier leagues in Scottish football.
The club name is also incorrectly abbreviated to East Stirling , which leads to the assumption that the club is located in the east of the city of Stirling , which is 14 miles away. The club is nicknamed The Shire among its supporters .
Club history
The club was founded in 1881 as Bainsford Britannia . Bainsford is a district of Falkirk. They were inducted into the professional league in 1900, but remained in the lower regions of the league system for most of the time. The only major successes are first place in the then still second class Second Division in the 1931/32 season and second place in the Second Division in 1963/64. In the following season, Shire rose again immediately. The hometown of Falkirk is home to another professional football club, Falkirk FC , but East Stirlingshire is not seen as a serious rival by Falkirk due to its persistent failure.
In the 1964/65 season the club moved to Clydebank and traded under the name ES Clydebank, but legal action meant that they returned to Falkirk and their old name after just one season.
In July 1974, East Stirlingshire became Sir Alex Ferguson's first coaching station . At the time, Shire only had eight registered players and no goalkeeper. Ferguson left the club after just three and a half months and went to FC St. Mirren .
The acting chairman and main shareholder Alan Mackin has stressed that he wants the dilapidated stadium Firs Park sell and possibly in the nearby town of Grangemouth in Grangemouth Stadium want to move. Another option involves the division of the stadium with Falkirk's Falkirk Stadium , although this is viewed critically due to its size, which would be at the expense of the atmosphere.
East Stirlingshire's form has been far from good in recent years. In the entire 2003/04 season they were able to collect just eight points and were only able to prevent the eternal negative record in the league from being broken on the last day of the game. In 2004/05 they took last place again, but were able to collect 22 points.
The consistently bad demeanor over the past few years and the lack of an appendix raised voices calling for East Stirlingshire to be excluded from the Scottish professional league. Unlike most other professional leagues, there is no way for amateur clubs to advance to the league unless a member dissolves. The last time this happened to Airdrieonians was in 2002. In the summer of 2005, the Scottish Football League decided that starting with the 2005/06 season, any club that was last twice in a row in the third division would be downgraded to the status of an 'Associate Member' and would lose the right to meet the Having a say in the league. After two more years it will be voted whether this club should still participate in the league.
East Stirlingshire finished the 2005/06 season again at the bottom of the table, followed by their first win on the first day of the season in 13 years in the 2006/07 season. In the fourth game of the season, East Stirlingshire defeated local rivals Stenhousemuir 5-0. That was the first time Shire had won a game by five goals in over a decade . The result was something special because the Warriors won the same game 7-0 just five months earlier in the same place . After that game, East Stirlingshire went 5-0 at East Fife , reflecting the club's plight.
After their opening win against Elgin City in 2006/07, sealed a 2-1 defeat in Elgins Borough Briggs in April 2007 that Shire held the last place in the third division for the fifth time in a row at the end of the season. The Scottish Football League immediately voted against demoting the club to an associate member and suspended the action for a year. This means that if East Stirlingshire were to remain a full member if they were placed higher than 10th, they would have lost their voting rights at league meetings in the event of another “red lantern”. East Stirlingshire was able to avert this scenario and end the season with one point ahead of the penultimate.