East Fife F.C.
East Fife Football Club (known informally as The Fife or The Fifers) are a Scottish football club based in the Fife coastal town of Methil. They are longstanding members of the Scottish Football League and currently compete in the Scottish Second Division.
The club, established in 1903, were the first club to win the Scottish League Cup three times and the only club from the Second Division (at the time, the second tier of the Scottish league structure) to win the prestigious Scottish Cup. The Second Division is currently (2009–10) the third tier of the league system.
East Fife are one of four senior clubs based in the Fife region but are the only one to bear the name of the area. The three other clubs are Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline Athletic and the Kirkcaldy based Raith Rovers, all of whom have historically shared rivalries with East Fife.
There is also an East Fife Ladies team that plays in the Scottish Women's Football League Second Division East.
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