Annbank United F.C.

Annbank United Football Club are a Scottish football club from Annbank, South Ayrshire. Formed in 1939, they are based at New Pebble Park and are nicknamed "The Bankies". They compete in the Ayrshire District League of the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association and wear black and white strips (uniforms).

Annbank United
Full nameAnnbank United Football Club
Nickname(s)The Bankies
Founded1939
GroundNew Pebble Park, Annbank
Capacity2,600
ChairmanWillie Fisher
ManagersMatt Maley
LeagueWest of Scotland League Conference B
2019–20SJFA West League Two, 9th of 15

The club reached the final of the 1952–53 Scottish Junior Cup, losing 1–0 to Vale of Leven in front of 55,800 spectators at Hampden Park. Annbank had required thirteen matches to negotiate the seven rounds to the final.[1]

In June 2016, Annbank appointed Graeme Neil and Tom Robertson of the Ayr United Football Academy as their new management team. The duo had worked the previous season at Lugar Boswell Thistle, bringing Ayr's pro-youth players into an adult game environment.

Honours
  • Scottish Junior Cup runners-up: 1952–53
  • Ayrshire Second Division winners: 1989–90
  • Western League (Southern) winners: 1948–49
  • Ayrshire (Ayrshire Weekly Press) Cup winners: 1940–41, 1943–44, 1945–46
  • Ayrshire League (Rockware Glass) Cup winners: 1987–88
  • Kyle & Carrick Cup winners: 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1992–93
  • South Ayrshire Cup winners: 1997–98
  • Ayrshire Super Cup winners: 1987–88
  • Western League Cup winners: 1942–43, 1943–44
  • Ayrshire Consolation Cup winners: 1951–52, 1955–56
  • Irvine & District Cup winners: 1943–44
  • Moore Trophy: 1954–55
  • Vernon Cup winners: 1951–52, 1955–56
  • Henderson Memorial Shield:1956

(shared with Dwinethorpe Rovers)

  • Ferguson Invitational: 1970
  • Vietnam Mid-Autumn Cup:1985

References
  1. Purdie, Tom (2011). The Scottish Junior Cup from 1946-1975. Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 978-1445604176.

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