Northern F.C.

Northern Football Club was a football club based at Hyde Park in the Springburn area of Glasgow, Scotland.[1] The club was a founder member of Scottish Football League Division Two, but left after a single season.

Northern
Full nameNorthern Football Club
Founded1874
Dissolved1897
GroundHyde Park, Glasgow

History

The club was formed in 1874, although details of their early years are largely unknown. In 1883 they merged with another local team Petershill (a different club from the surviving Junior club of that name)[2] and were founder members of the Glasgow Football Association in the same year.[3]

They were founder members of the Scottish Football Alliance in 1891 following a number of teams in leaving the Alliance two years later to form the new Division Two of the Scottish League. 1893–94 proved to be their sole season in the league, with the club finishing ninth and failing re-election. They returned to the Scottish Alliance but during the course of the 1896–97 season they were wound up.

Petershill Juniors were formed in summer 1897, just after Northern folded and a year after Cowlairs; due to the circumstances they could be seen as a successor representing the Springburn area, albeit their club history does not mention those clubs, only linking their formation to the demise of St Mungo's Juniors in the area.[4]

Scottish League records

References

  1. "Ordnance Survey 25 inch, 1892-1914". Explore georeferenced maps. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  2. "Scottish Club Directory". Scottish Football Historical Archive. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  3. Chapter XXV—Glasgow Association, History of the Queen's Park Football Club 1867 - 1917 (via Electric Scotland)
  4. "History". Petershill F.C. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  5. J. Rollin, The Guinness Football Factbook, Enfield: Guinness Publishing, 1993, p. 131


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