Forres Mechanics

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Forres Mechanics
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Basic data
Surname Forres Mechanics Football Club
Seat Forres
founding 1884
president James Anderson
Website forresmechanics.net
First soccer team
Venue Mosset Park
Places 1,400
league Highland Football League
2018/19 6th place

Forres Mechanics (officially: Forres Mechanics Football Club , nickname: The Can Cans ) is a Scottish football club from the town of Forres in the Moray region . The club, founded in 1884, is known as the oldest football club in Northern Scotland and has played in the Highland Football League without interruption since the league was founded in 1893 . Only Clachnacuddin FC has also been there from the first season.

Forres Mechanics was two league champions: 1985/86 and 2011/12.

The club plays in Mosset Park (1400 seats, including 502 seats).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forres Mechanics, "Why Mechanics"
  2. Forres Mechanics, "Club History" ( Memento of the original dated November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forresmechanics.net