Clachnacuddin F.C.
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Clachnacuddin Football Club is a part-time, senior Scottish football club based in the city of Inverness, that currently plays in the Template:Scottish football updater.
Clachnacuddin have won the most Highland Football League championships in the competition's history: a total of 18, a title shared with now defunct side, Caledonian. Their home ground is Grant Street Park in the city's Merkinch area.<ref name=longing>Clachnacuddin: The fire-hit football club longing to return home, BBC Scotland News, 31 January 2020</ref> They also have a youth system, with many teams ranging from the primary squads to the under 19s.
They were founded in 1885 and are nicknamed "The Lilywhites" (due to their white strip) or "Clach". Their name is an English approximation of a Scots Gaelic name meaning "the stone of the tub", referring to a city landmark in Inverness.
As a full member of the Scottish FA, they are entitled to enter the Scottish Cup each year.
Ground
Clachnacuddin have played at Grant Street Park in the Merkinch area of Inverness since the ground opened in 1886. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 3,000 spectators.
On 23 May 1988 a major fire destroyed Grant Street's wooden grandstand with vandalism blamed.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
On the morning of Christmas Eve 2019, a fire broke out in the kit room due to an electrical fault in a tumble drier.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As a result, Clachnacuddin's home game against Formartine United was called off. Following this incident, Clach were put into a temporary groundshare with Highland RFC at Canal Park, in the Bught area of Inverness.<ref name=longing/>
Reserves
Clachnacuddin's reserve team plays in the North Caledonian Football League, which they rejoined in 2022–23 after withdrawing at the start of the 2014–15 season.
Fixtures are mostly played at Culcairn Park, in Evanton. The club intermittently runs an amateur team in the local Inverness and District League.
Honours
- Highland Football League<ref name=sfhahl>Scottish Highland League, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 2 January 2021</ref>
- Champions: 1894–95, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1900–01, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1905–06, 1907–08, 1911–12, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1974–75, 2003–04
- Highland League Cup<ref name=sfhahl/>
- Winners: 1947–48, 1950–51, 1981–82, 2003–04, 2013–14
- North of Scotland Cup<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Winners: 1894–95, 1895–96, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1902–03, 1903–04, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1922–23, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1964–65, 1979–80, 1992–93, 2001–02
- Inverness Cup<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Winners: 1897–98, 1900–01 1903–04, 1904–05, 1906–07, 1909–10, 1919–20, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1936–37, 1951–52, 1952–53
- Scottish Qualifying Cup (North)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Scotland – List of Qualifying Cup Finals, RSSSF, 15 December 2004</ref>
- Winners: 1934–35, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1974–75, 1998–99
- Bells Cup<ref>Bells Cup, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 4 June 2020</ref>
- Winners: 1977–78
- Inverness Charity Cup<ref name=sfhaicc>Inverness Charity Cup, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 6 July 2020</ref>
- Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1903–04, 1904–05, 1920–21, 1927–28, 1932–33, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1947–48, 1948–49
- Elginshire Charity Cup<ref>Elginshire Charity Cup, Scottish Football Historical Archive, 14 July 2020</ref>
- Winners: 1896–97, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1905–06
- Inverness Sports Bed Cup<ref name=sfhaicc/>
- Winners: 1937–38
Club records
- Record attendance: 8,850 vs St Johnstone, 17 January 1948 (as per the 'Inverness Courier' dated 20 January 1948).