Dumbarton F.C.

Dumbarton F.C.

Dumbarton Football Club is Scotland's 4th oldest football club – founded in 1872, just after Queen's Park (1867), Kilmarnock (1869) and Stranraer (1870). They come from the town of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire and play their home games at the The Bet Butler Stadium, next to Dumbarton Castle.

The club were one of the greatest clubs of the nineteenth century, winning the Scottish Football League in the first two seasons of the competition. Since then the club have spent the majority of their history outside the top flight, and last played at the top level in 1985, thus being the only existing Scottish league champions to not have competed in the current Scottish Premier League.

In May 2009 Dumbarton were crowned Third Division champions after a late run of form; however, the following month club captain Gordon "Guido" Lennon died in an offroad car accident in Inverness. Despite an understandable difficult start to the 2009–10 campaign the team managed to consolidate their place in the Irn-Bru Second Division with a 6th place finish. In 2011–12 they earned third place and won the promotion playoffs to go up to the First Division for the first time since 1995–96.

Due to a poor start to life in the First Division the club parted company with manager Alan Adamson on 22 October 2012, with Jack Ross taking over temporary charge. Former Hibernian Captain Ian Murray was appointed the manager's job.