Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
Dunfermline Athletic Football Club are a Scottish football team based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly known as just Dunfermline. They currently compete in the Scottish First Division.
They play at East End Park and are nicknamed The Pars. They are currently managed by Jim Jefferies who was appointed in March 2012 taking over from Jim McIntyre.
The 2010–11 season was the club's fourth season in the second tier of Scottish football, during which they won the championship and clinched promotion back to the Scottish Premier League after a five-year stint away.
The club shares rivalries with fellow Fife sides Cowdenbeath and Raith Rovers as well as Falkirk.
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