Forfar West End F.C.

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Forfar West End
Full nameForfar West End Football Club
Founded1892
GroundStrathmore Park
Craig O' Loch Road
Forfar
Capacity1500
LeagueSJFA Midlands League
2022–23SJFA Midlands League, 19th of 19

Forfar West End Football Club are a Scottish junior football club based in Forfar, Angus. Their home ground is Strathmore Park.

Up until the end of the 2005–06 season, they played in the Tayside Premier League of the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region. They had previously finished as champions of the previous Tayside Junior Football League system once, in 1991.

The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and West End found themselves in the 12-team East Region, North Division. They won the championship in their first season in the division and were promoted to the Premier League.

In the 2007–08 season they finished as Runners up in the East Premier League giving them promotion to the Super League, but were relegated again the following season.

After the loss of several players and management staff, the club failed to raise a team on two occasions at the start of the 2011–12 season. At an East Region meeting on 18 October 2011, it was announced that the club were going into abeyance and would withdraw from all competitive fixtures for the remainder of the season.[1]

West End returned the following season in the East Region North Division and worked their way back up to the East Super League in 2017–18 after two promotions in five seasons.

Coaching staff[edit]

Role Name
Manager James Russell
Assistant Manager Nicky Deuchars
Coach Lee Esposito

First-team squad[edit]

As of 2nd August 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK Scotland SCO Cameron Winter
GK Scotland SCO Dylan Mackie
DF Scotland SCO Owen Lockhart
DF Scotland SCO David Rae
DF Scotland SCO Jay Harkin
DF Scotland SCO Glyn Hodnett
DF Scotland SCO Arran Leiper
DF Scotland SCO David Rae
DF Scotland SCO Josh Reekie (on loan from East Craigie F.C.)
DF Scotland SCO Aiden Crighton (on loan from Brechin Victoria F.C.)
MF Scotland SCO Ali Maule
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Scotland SCO Harrison Taylor
MF Scotland SCO Kieron Dolan
MF Scotland SCO Paddy McAuley
MF Scotland SCO Liam Jones
MF Scotland SCO Scott Hamilton
MF Scotland SCO James Russell
MF Scotland SCO Ben Russell
MF Scotland SCO Andrew Walls (C)
FW Scotland SCO Garry Muckersie
FW Scotland SCO Brett Hampton

References[edit]

  1. ^ "'I fear there may be more' — Forfar West End's problems a sign of financial pressures facing junior football". The Courier. 20 October 2011. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.

External links[edit]

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