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| Full name | University of Stirling Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1969 | ||
| Ground | Forthbank Stadium, Stirling | ||
| Capacity | 3,808[1] (2,508 Seated) | ||
| Manager | Chris Geddes | ||
| League | Lowland League | ||
| 2023–24 | Lowland League, 11th of 18 | ||
| Website | https://stirlingunifc.stir.ac.uk/ | ||
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University of Stirling Football Club are a football club based in Stirling, Scotland. They are associated with the University of Stirling and have played in the Lowland Football League since 2013. The club operates six teams which compete in a combination of BUCS Football League (British university competitions) and in senior and amateur leagues across Scotland.
The club currently have six teams in the BUCS Football League and also a team in the Lowland Football League, East of Scotland Football League, Lowlands U20 Development League and the Caledonian Amateur Football League.
The university deliver a High Performance Football Programme which provides players to the first team. As part of this programme, students can be offered football scholarships to study for a degree and play football at the university.[2] The football scholarship programme is named after Craig Gowans, a talented Falkirk player who died in 2005 while training with the university.[3]
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- ^ "Football (men) | Student life". University of Stirling. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Tragedy as footballer is electrocuted Power cables kill promising teenager". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 20 June 2020.