Rothes Football Club is a senior football club who play in the Highland Football League. They were originally founded in 1907 as a Junior club, Rothes Victoria, and turned Senior on 4 May 1938 as Rothes FC, obtaining a place in the Highland League. They play at Mackessack Park in Rothes, a small town near Elgin in Moray. They play in tangerine shirts, colours they inherited from Dundee United after purchasing the floodlights from Tannadice Park. Rothes have won the Highland League once, in the 1958–59 season. Mackessack Park is named after one Douglas Mackessack, a local laird and whisky magnate and an early benefactor of the club.

Rothes
Full nameRothes Football Club
Nickname(s)The Speysiders
Founded1907 as Rothes Victoria
1938 as Rothes
GroundMackessack Park, Rothes
Capacity2,700 (184 seated)
ChairmanIain Paul
ManagerRichard Hastings
LeagueHighland League
2023–24Highland League, 11th of 18

In 2020, The Speysiders won their first honours in 41 years, defeating Buckie Thistle 2–1 in the Highland League Cup final to win the trophy for the first time.[1]

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Club honours edit

1958–59

2019–20

1958–59, 1978–79, 2021–22

  • Campbell Charity Cup

1949–50

References edit

  1. ^ Clark, Jonathan (31 October 2020). "Rothes 2 Buckie Thistle 1: Dramatic last-gasp winner seals Speysiders' maiden Highland League Cup success". northern-scot.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

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