Clydebank Football Club is a football club from Clydebank in Scotland. The club was a member of the Scottish Football League from 1967 until 2002, when it was bought from its then shareholders by the shareholders of Airdrie United F.C. who took up Clydebank's place in the Scottish Football League. The name and insignia of Clydebank were transferred to United Clydebank Supporters, an organisation which had been trying to set up a supporters' trust to save the club. They re-established the club, and are now part of the Scottish Junior Football Association, playing in Division 1 of the Central District League in the West Region of the junior level after winning Division 2 in 2003-4.

The club had previously been a junior club but joined the senior ranks in 1967, after a few seasons in which the club had been merged with East Stirlingshire F.C. and playing as ES Clydebank F.C. in the Scottish Football League's Division Two. However many East Stirling fans were unhappy with this and challenged the merger through the courts, a challenge in which they were successful, forcing the splitting of ES Clydebank back into the two original clubs. None the less, both retained their senior status and remained members of the Scottish Football League.

Clydebank achieved a modicum of success in their 35 years as a league club, having a couple of stints as a top-flight club. They were also the first senior club of the Scottish international Davie Cooper, who went on to play for Rangers F.C. and Motherwell F.C..

During their time in the league they shared a rivalry with Dumbarton F.C. and also liked to dislike Partick Thistle F.C., taking great pleasure in reminding Thistle fans of the time they beat their team 7-1 in the early 1990s.

They currently play at Glenhead Park in the Duntocher area of Clydebank, which is the ground of Drumchapel Amateur F.C. . Whilst a senior club they played for most of their existence at Kilbowie Stadium closer to Clydebank town centre. They are currently exploring the possibility of transferring to a new ground.

Since rejoining the junior level the club has shared a healthy rivarly with Yoker Athletic F.C..

External links

• Clydebank F.C. - official website
• Clydebank F.C. at footballcrests.com
• Demise of the Bankies - BBC News story from 2002 recounts the history of Clydebank F.C.