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| Full name | Ayr United Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Honest Men[1] | ||
| Founded | 1910 | ||
| Ground | Somerset Park | ||
| Capacity | 10,185[2] (1,597 seated) | ||
| Chairman | David Smith | ||
| Manager | Scott Brown | ||
| League | Scottish Championship | ||
| 2023–24 | Scottish Championship, 7th of 10 | ||
| Website | https://ayrunitedfc.co.uk/ | ||
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Ayr United Football Club are a football club in Ayr, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League. Formed in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C., their nickname is The Honest Men, from a line in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter". They play at Somerset Park.[3]
The club is currently managed by Scott Brown. The club have spent 34 seasons in Scotland's top division, the last being 1977–78, and have been the champions of the second tier of Scottish football on six occasions, and of the third tier on three occasions. The club's most successful manager, Ally MacLeod, went on to manage the Scotland national team. In 2018, Ayr United secured promotion to the Scottish Championship as champions of League One.
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