Buckie Rovers Football Club are a Scottish football club from the town of Buckie, Moray. After a period abeyance during the 2021–22 season due to organisational difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland, the club folded in September 2022. In July 2023 the club restarted and are entered into the Moray and district Welfare League with a view to returning to the junior setup in a couple years time after a rebuilding period.[1]

Buckie Rovers
Full nameBuckie Rovers Football Club
Nickname(s)Rovers
Founded1889
GroundMerson Park, Barrhill Road, Buckie
ChairmanMike Coull
ManagerNeil Mair
2020–21SJFA North First Division (season abandoned)

Rovers withdrew from the league early in season 2004–05 but rejoined the following year. The club used to share a ground with their larger Highland League neighbours Buckie Thistle but are now based at Merson Park in the Buckpool area of the town. The club colours are black and white.

Rovers earned promotion to the North Superleague for the first time after clinching the 2015–16 North Region Division One (West) championship in March 2016.[2]

Honours edit

  • North Region Division One (West) winners: 2015–16
  • North Region (North) League winners: 1969–70, 1974–75, 1982–83, 1992–93
  • Morayshire Junior League winners: 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68
  • North Region Division Two (Gordon Williamson) Trophy: 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1975–76, 1980–81
  • Morayshire Junior Cup: 1946–47, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1981–82, 1996–97
  • Matthew Cup: 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1993–94, 1998–99
  • Nicholson Cup: 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1975–76, 1981–82, 1985–86
  • Robertson Cup: 1962–63, 1965–66, 1983–84, 1995–96
  • Stewart Memorial Cup: 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1981–82
  • North of Scotland (Morayshire) Cup: 1961–62, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1977–78
  • Connon Cup: 1981–82
  • White Horse Cup: 1947–48, 1961–62, 1966–67, 1969–70, 1975–76

References edit

  1. ^ "End of an era as final whistle blows for Buckie Rovers". Grampian Online. 12 September 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. ^ Saunderson, Chris (15 March 2016). "Buckie Rovers are champions". Banffshire Journal. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.