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Edinburgh City Football Club are a semi-professional senior Scottish football club, which plays in the Lowland Football League after joining from the East of Scotland Football League. The club are based at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. Edinburgh City was first formed in 1928 as an amateur club. It participated in the Scottish Football League in the 1930s and 1940s, but went out of business in the 1950s. A new club adopted the Edinburgh City name in 1986. The new club applied to join the Scottish Football League in 2002 and 2008, but failed to win election. On 18 June 2013, they were confirmed as members of the new Lowland League from the 2013–14 season. The club won their first Lowland League title on 20 March 2015 after nearest rivals Whitehill Welfare lost at East Kilbride. City thus qualified for the play-offs for a place in the fourth tier of the 2015–16 Scottish Professional Football League, but were narrowly beaten by Highland League champions Brora Rangers and will therefore retain their place in the Lowland League for the 2015–16 season. ==History== Edinburgh City were founded in 1928. The club aimed to become the Edinburgh equivalent of the Glasgow club Queen's Park, and joined the Scottish Football League as an amateur club in 1931. The club won election to the league, where they replaced Clydebank, ahead of Nithsdale Wanderers by 25 votes to 7. The club was very unsuccessful in the league, as on average they won fewer than one game in six.〔 This record led to the club finishing bottom of the league table in six of the eight seasons between 1931 and 1939.〔 It also conceded more than 110 goals in seven of those seasons. They achieved a famous Scottish Cup upset victory, however, when they defeated Hibernian 3–2 at Easter Road in the first round of the 1937–38 competition.〔 Hibernians' player Arthur Milne missed a penalty kick with five minutes left to play. In the next round, Edinburgh City lost 9–2 at Raith Rovers on 9 February 1938. The club played in the Lothian Amateur League during the Second World War and were only admitted to the C Division in 1946.〔〔 After three more years of struggle, the club left the Scottish Football League in 1949.〔〔 It switched to junior status and played in the Edinburgh & District Junior League.〔〔 The club ceased activity completely in 1955, when the local council refused to renew its lease on its home ground, City Park.〔 A club called Postal United was founded in 1966. The Edinburgh City Football Club Ltd (Social Club), which had continued trading throughout the abeyance of the football club, gave their approval in 1986 for Postal United to use the Edinburgh City name. The club has regularly participated in the Scottish Cup since the mid-1990s, when it became a full member of the Scottish Football Association.〔 In the 1997–98 Scottish Cup they defeated SFL club, East Stirlingshire, before losing 7–2 to Dunfermline Athletic, then of the Premier Division. The club applied to join the Scottish Football League in 2002, after Airdrieonians had gone bankrupt, but Gretna won the vote instead. Following Gretna's liquidation in 2008, Edinburgh City again applied, but this time lost out to Annan Athletic. The club won the East of Scotland Football League Premier Division title for the first time in the 2005–06 season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edinburgh City F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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