Livingston FC

Livingston FC
	Livingston FC
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Basic data
Surname	Livingston Football Club
Seat	Livingston , Scotland
founding	1943
Board	Robert Wilson
Website	livingstonfc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach	Gary Holt
Venue	Tony Macaroni Arena
Places	10,006
league	Scottish Premiership
2019/20	5th place (quotient regulation)
home	Away

The FC Livingston (officially: Livingston Football Club ) - founded in 1943 - is a professional football club from Livingston , Scotland .

The club is originally from Edinburgh and was founded in 1943 as Ferranti Thistle . When you were elected to the Scottish Football League in 1974 , the name had to be changed because the name Ferranti was used in advertising. Since the team played in Meadowbank Stadium , they called themselves from then on Meadowbank Thistle . The team was relocated to the newly founded city of Livingston in 1995, the club name, the colors and the coat of arms changed. The newly created club won the third division in 1995/96 and within the next five years the second division and the first division were both finished in first place.

development

Livingston's first season was crowned 1995/96 with winning the Scottish Third Division . Three years later, the team also won Division Two and the First Division in 2000/01, and only six years after the club was founded they advanced to the Premier League . Here, too, they were immediately successful and took third place, which qualified for participation in the UEFA Cup . Livingston won the first national trophy in 2003/04 when the Livi Lions beat Hibernian 2-0 to win the Scottish League Cup at Hampden Park .

On February 11, 2006 Paul Lambert resigned as a coach after twelve defeats in a row when Livingston was already bottom of the table. He was replaced by former player John Robertson .

Despite good performances, Livingston finally got down in May 2006. After poor performance by the team, John Robertson was released on April 15, 2007. He was succeeded on May 22, 2007 by former Hibs assistant trainer Mark Proctor .

After the 6th place in 2006/2007 and a 7th place in the following season, Livi sniffed the ascent again in the 08/09 season. The young, hungry team with its new star Leigh Griffiths ultimately turned out to be too inconsistent and the success was overshadowed by the club's financial problems. These financial problems finally culminated on August 5, 2009 when the club was relegated to the Third Division.

Current squad

As of August 24, 2020

No.		position	Surname
1	Scotland	TW	Robby McCrorie
2	Scotland	FROM	Nicky Devlin
3	Northern Ireland	FROM	Ciaron Brown
4th	Scotland	FROM	Alan Lithgow
5	England	FROM	Jack Fitzwater
6th	England	MF	Marvin Bartley ( )(C)
7th	South Africa	MF	Keaghan Jacobs
8th	Scotland	MF	Scott Pittman
9	Ireland	ST	Anthony Stokes
10	Scotland	MF	Craig Sibbald
11	Scotland	MF	Alan Forrest
12	France	FROM	Julien Serrano
13	Germany	ST	Lars Lokotsch
15th	Slovenia	ST	Matej Poplatnik
16	Scotland	MF	Robbie Crawford
17th	Scotland	MF	Scott Robinson

No.		position	Surname
18th	Scotland	MF	Jason Holt
19th	Scotland	ST	Salim Kouider-Aïssa
20th	Tunisia	ST	Aymen Souda
21st	Scotland	FROM	Jack McMillan
22nd	Scotland	MF	Scott Tiffoney
23	Italy	MF	Raffaele De Vita
25th	Nigeria	FROM	Ivy Ambrose
27	England	FROM	Jon Guthrie
29	England	FROM	Aaron Taylor-Sinclair
30th	United States	TW	Brian Schwake
32	Poland	TW	Max Stryjek
33	Togo	FROM	Steve Lawson
38	Scotland	ST	Jack Hamilton
39	Scotland	MF	Carlo Pignatiello
40	Scotland	TW	Gary Maley

successes

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
2002/03	Uefa cup	qualification	Liechtenstein FC Vaduz	( a ) 1: 1(a)	1: 1 (A)	0: 0 (H)
2002/03	Uefa cup	1 round	Austria SK Sturm Graz	6: 8	2: 5 (A)	4: 3 (H)