Forfar West End F.C.

Forfar West End
Full nameForfar West End Football Club
Founded1892
GroundStrathmore Park
Craig O' Loch Road
Forfar
Capacity1500
LeagueSJFA Midlands League
2024–25SJFA Midlands League, 16th of 20

Forfar West End Football Club are a Scottish junior football club based in Forfar, Angus. Their home ground is Strathmore Park.

Up until the end of the 2005–06 season, they played in the Tayside Premier League of the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region. They had previously finished as champions of the previous Tayside Junior Football League system once, in 1991.

The SJFA restructured prior to the 2006–07 season, and West End found themselves in the 12-team East Region, North Division. They won the championship in their first season in the division and were promoted to the Premier League.

In the 2007–08 season they finished as Runners up in the East Premier League giving them promotion to the Super League, but were relegated again the following season.

After the loss of several players and management staff, the club failed to raise a team on two occasions at the start of the 2011–12 season. At an East Region meeting on 18 October 2011, it was announced that the club were going into abeyance and would withdraw from all competitive fixtures for the remainder of the season.[1]

West End returned the following season in the East Region North Division and worked their way back up to the East Super League in 2017–18 after two promotions in five seasons.

Coaching staff

Role Name
Manager James Russell
Assistant Manager Nicky Deuchars
Coach Lee Esposito
Goalkeeping Coach Mark Reid

First-team squad

As of 1st August 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK  SCO Matty Smith
GK  SCO Cameron Winter
GK  SCO Dylan Mackie
DF  SCO Owen Lockhart
DF  SCO David Rae
DF  SCO Glyn Hodnett
DF  SCO Nate Maver
DF  SCO Arran Leiper
DF  SCO Josh Reekie
DF  SCO Blair Mudie
DF  SCO Jay Harkin
MF  SCO Gary Archibald
MF  SCO Fraser Sturrock
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF  SCO Cameron Black
MF  SCO Ali Maule
MF  SCO Jamie Allan
MF  SCO Ben Holmes
MF  SCO Jamie Moran
MF  SCO Paddy McAuley
MF  SCO Scott Hamilton
MF  SCO James Russell
MF  SCO Ben Russell
MF  SCO Andrew Walls (C)
FW  SCO Nathan Ford
FW  SCO Brett Hampton

Honours

Tayside Premier Division: 1990–91

Tayside Division One: 1982–83[2]

Tayside Region League Cup: 2008–09, 2010–11

North & Tayside Inter-Regional Cup: 1992–93, 2007–08[3]

Winter Cup: 1982–83

References

  1. ^ "'I fear there may be more' — Forfar West End's problems a sign of financial pressures facing junior football". The Courier. 20 October 2011. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Tayside Region Junior League". sfha.org.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Inter-Regional Junior Cups". sfha.org.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2025.

56°38′39″N 2°53′48″W / 56.64414°N 2.89654°W / 56.64414; -2.89654