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Nickname(s)
  
The Blasties

Manager
  
Mark Bradley

Capacity
  
3,000

Ground Capacity
  
3000

Founded
  
1901

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Full name
  
Kilbirnie Ladeside Football Club

League
  
West of Scotland Super League Premier Division

2015–16
  
West of Scotland Super League Premier Division, 3rd

Grounds
  
Valefield Park, Kirkland Road, Kilbirnie

Kilbirnie Ladeside Football Club are a Scottish football club, from Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire. Based at Valefield Park, they are members of the Scottish Junior Football Association and currently play in the West Super League Premier Division. Their main rivals are Beith Juniors. The club nickname, The Blasties, derives from a Robert Burns poem, The Inventory, written in 1786. My furr-ahin 's a wordy beast,
 As e'er in tug or tow was traced.
 The fourth's a Highland Donald hastle,
 A damn'd red-wud Kilburnie blastie!

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The team were managed by former Stranraer defender Stephen Swift, who assumed sole control in February 2015, having previously been co-manager with Mark Crilly since March 2012. Swift resigned on 13 November 2016, being replaced by Mark Bradley later that month.

Notable former players

  • George Stevenson, Motherwell and Scotland.
  • Ernie McGarr, Aberdeen and Scotland.
  • Jim Fleeting, stepped up to Norwich City. Current SFA Director of Football Development.
  • Chris Erskine, currently at Partick Thistle.
  • Tom McQueen, the father of former Scotland defender Gordon McQueen.

    • Honours

    Scottish Junior Cup
  • Winners: 1951–52, 1976–77
  • Runners-up: 1986–87
    • Other honours
  • West of Scotland Cup winners: 2007–08
  • Scottish Junior League winners: 1903–04
  • Western/Ayrshire League champions: 1947–48, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1967–68, 1975–76
  • Ayrshire Cup winners: 1912–13, 1923–24, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1986–87
  • Western/Ayrshire League Cup winners: 1923–24, 1931–32, 1938–39, 1988–89, 1994–95, 2009–10

    • References

    Kilbirnie Ladeside F.C. Wikipedia
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