Inverness Citadel Football Club were a
footballAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball...
club based at Shore Street Park in
InvernessInverness is a city in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is promoted as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...
,
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. They were formed in the mid 1880s and were initial members of the
Highland Football LeagueThe Highland Football League is a league of football clubs operating not just in the Scottish Highlands, as the name may suggest, but also in the north-east lowlands...
when it was formed in 1894. They were league champions on only one occasion, in 1909. They regularly participated in the
North Caledonian Football LeagueThe North Caledonian Football League is an amateur football league operating in the highlands of Scotland.It currently consists of 10 teams for the 2008–09 season:* Alness United* Balintore* Bonar Bridge* Bunillidh Thistle...
as well, winning it 5 times. They withdrew from the Highland Football League in 1935 playing on in other competitions for a few seasons before going out of existence just prior to the Second World War.
Inverness Citadel were assured of their place in Scottish football history when they became the first Highland Football League side to defeat a
Scottish Football LeagueThe Scottish Football League is a league of football teams in Scotland, comprising theScottish First Division, Scottish Second Division and Scottish Third Division....
side in the
Scottish CupThe Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the Scottish Cup, and as the Active Nation Scottish Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the main national cup competition in Scottish football...
when in the 1921–22 season they beat
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5–3 in the first round of that competition.
Shore Street Park was beside the harbour in Inverness and now is the site of an industrial estate.
The club name has recently been revived by a six aside team playing in the Inverness Tuesday Football Mundial Championship
http://www.bebo.com/thecitadel.
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Inverness Citadel Football Club were a
footballAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball...
club based at Shore Street Park in
InvernessInverness is a city in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is promoted as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...
,
ScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. They were formed in the mid 1880s and were initial members of the
Highland Football LeagueThe Highland Football League is a league of football clubs operating not just in the Scottish Highlands, as the name may suggest, but also in the north-east lowlands...
when it was formed in 1894. They were league champions on only one occasion, in 1909. They regularly participated in the
North Caledonian Football LeagueThe North Caledonian Football League is an amateur football league operating in the highlands of Scotland.It currently consists of 10 teams for the 2008–09 season:* Alness United* Balintore* Bonar Bridge* Bunillidh Thistle...
as well, winning it 5 times. They withdrew from the Highland Football League in 1935 playing on in other competitions for a few seasons before going out of existence just prior to the Second World War.
Inverness Citadel were assured of their place in Scottish football history when they became the first Highland Football League side to defeat a
Scottish Football LeagueThe Scottish Football League is a league of football teams in Scotland, comprising theScottish First Division, Scottish Second Division and Scottish Third Division....
side in the
Scottish CupThe Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the Scottish Cup, and as the Active Nation Scottish Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the main national cup competition in Scottish football...
when in the 1921–22 season they beat
ClackmannanClackmannan F.C. were a Scottish football club best known for the four seasons they spent in the Scottish League in the 1920s.However, most of their being was in various non-league competitions...
5–3 in the first round of that competition.
Shore Street Park was beside the harbour in Inverness and now is the site of an industrial estate.
The club name has recently been revived by a six aside team playing in the Inverness Tuesday Football Mundial Championship
http://www.bebo.com/thecitadel. In their first season they finished runners up and in their second were Champions in the Inverness Leisure Leagues Premiership. Also knocked out in the British National Tournament in the quarter finals by the eventual winners.
http://www.leisureleagues.net/UK/Scotland/INVERNESS-SUNDAY/Premier-Division.aspx
Current squad
As of 19th August 2009.