Livingston 1-1 Berwick

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Manager: Jimmy Crease
Ass. Player/Man: Ian Little

Directors:
Brian Porteous (Chairman)
Moray McLaren (Vice Chair)
John Hush
Callum Porteous
John Bell (ST)
Bill Parkin (SC)
John Robertson
Len Eyre
Jeff Burnlees

Secretary: Dennis McCleary
Commercial: Conrad Turner
Club Shop: Gordon Dickson
Design: Boomerang Creative

Contact us:
(01289) 307424
club@berwickrangers.net

The club was formed at a meeting held on 7th January 1884 after a New Year’s Day friendly match, played in the town between a team of millworkers from Dunbar and railway clerks from Newcastle, so impressed the local youths. After several years playing successfully in local and north Northumberland league football, During which they won the Northumberland FA Minor Cup and the North Northumberland League, without losing a single match, they set their sights at a higher level.

They applied and were elected to the Northumberland league. However, after only one season they were “asked” to resign as the other clubs were refusing to travel so far north due to the travelling expense. After applying unsuccessfully for admission to the Northern Alliance League, they turned their loyalties north and gained membership of the Eastern League, which included teams from the Edinburgh and the east of Scotland area, for season 1905/06 and with it came membership of the Scottish Football Association.

After the demise of the Eastern League the club played the Border Amateur and Border Senior leagues before becoming a founding member of the East of Scotland League in 1923/24. During the following years they qualified for the Scottish FA Cup proper on nine occasions; won the East of Scotland League twice; ESFA Qualifying Cup five times; ESFA Consolation Cup twice; Border Cup twice; King Cup twice and in 1947/48 they won the SFA Qualifying Cup South when they defeated Stranraer 3-2.

In 1950 the club declared its ambition to become a senior club with Scottish Football League status a feat they achieved, after much canvassing, with election to the C Division in 1951/52. During their C Division tenure they became known as cup giant-killers with victories over several leading clubs, including Ayr United and Dundee on their way to a Scottish Cup quarter-final meeting with the mighty Rangers in 1953/54.

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