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| Full name | Glasgow United Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Town | ||
| Founded | 1903 (as Shettleston Juniors) | ||
| Ground | Greenfield Park, Glasgow | ||
| Capacity | 1,800 (10 seated) | ||
| Manager | Rab Stevenson | ||
| League | West of Scotland League Third Division | ||
| 2023–24 | West of Scotland League Third Division, 9th of 16 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Glasgow United Football Club are a Scottish football club based in Shettleston, in the East End of Glasgow. Nicknamed the Town, they were formed in 1903 as Shettleston Juniors Football & Athletic Club and renamed prior to the 2021–22 season.[1] The club continues to play at Greenfield Park[2] and currently competes in the West of Scotland League.
Shettleston reached the final of the 1958–59 Scottish Junior Cup, losing 2–1 to Irvine Meadow in front of a crowd of 65,211 fans at Hampden Park.[3] Their fortunes have been mixed in recent years, flitting between the various divisions of the league they have been based in, although they managed to reach the semi-finals of the Scottish Junior Cup in 2000–01, and the quarter-finals of the same competition in 2001–02 and 2014–15.
The team have been led jointly since January 2017 by club owner Hugh Kelly and Bernard ‘Bernie’ Beacom. Kelly and Beacom replaced the previous management team of Peter Weatherson and Ryan McStay.[4][5] On 26 January 2022, the club confirmed Rab Stevenson as their new manager.
The current squad includes rapist[6][7] David Goodwillie,[8] and the surrounding controversy has led to threats of eviction from their facilities by Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken.[9] The club have declared that they 'are supporting David with his mental health and will continue to do so'.[10]
- ^ "Best of the West: Murdie McKinnon can't wait for Pollok v Auchinleck". Glasgow Times. 19 June 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ Shettleston Juniors FC, The Glasgow Story
- ^ "Memories of Irvine Meadow's first cup win". Daily Record. 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ^ O'Donnell, Jim (19 January 2017). "Fallon ready for the challenge at depleted Shettleston". Evening Times. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ O'Donnell, Jim (15 August 2016). "All change at Shettleston as player-manager Peter Weatherston takes centre stage". Evening Times. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ^ "Footballers Goodwillie and Robertson ruled as rapists". BBC News. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
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- ^ "Glasgow club threatened with eviction over pursuit of convicted rapist". Independent.co.uk. 24 July 2023.
- ^ "David Goodwillie: Glasgow United 'won't walk away' from rapist footballer".