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Welcome to the Ayr United Archive and History Website
This website is an unofficial Ayr United website which provides archive material telling the history of Ayr United Football Club from its humble beginnings in 1910 to the current season.
Club History
From Ayr Thistle to Ayr United, trace the clubs history through many mergers to the present day. Explore the history of the home of Ayr United - Somerset Park from those early days down through the century, through a number of changes to its present form
Retrace the history of the many Divisional League wins, Local Cup Finals, the near misses, and eventually the glory of the first ever National Cup Final.
Past Managers
Find out about the managers of Ayr United from Herbert Dainty in 1914 through to our current manager, all of whom have struggled to keep Ayr at the highest level possible in the Scottish League.
The Teams We Have Played
Over the years since 1910, Ayr United have played many teams from the current set of Scottish League Teams, to those who are no longer in the league, non league clubs and those league and non-league teams from South of the border - England, and, although the Honest Men have never played competitively in foreign competition, they have played many clubs from all parts of the globe. Read about their famous 1928 tour to Sweden, their tours of Canada and more recent visits to Ireland. A page for each and every club that Ayr United have ever played is to found in this website.
Results and Matchday Programmes Issued
Select a
season to explore leading you to a page for each season will give every result of every match that Ayr United played, final league table and an extensive list of the programmes issued during that season so you can instantly compare your collections.
For collectors of Ayr United programmes there will also be a definitive list of the programmes that have been issued which will help you in your quest for those elusive, more valuable ones - and there are a few of them.
Programmes like those from the 1940’s, the postponed premier league match against Rangers and more recently the last match that Airdrieonians football club played - which happened to be at Ayr.
Published History
Explore the published history of the club. There has
been more published history about Ayr United than larger than there has been for any other club of its size.
This site provides reviews on these publications.
Visit the other Ayr United websites, but don’t forget to come back here this site is unique in football websites.
Ayr United Memorabelia and Collectors Club
For collectors of programmes and memorabelia join the Collectors club and the link at the top of the page. Ask questions, share information and stories.
Dont forget to give a comment on the message board or e-mail me.
Enjoy the journey! Any feedback will be appreciated.
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