Ayr United F.C.

Ayr United
Full nameAyr United Football Club
Nickname(s)The Honest Men[1]
Founded1910 (1910)
GroundSomerset Park
Capacity10,185[2] (1,597 seated)
ChairmanDavid Smith
ManagerScott Brown
LeagueScottish Championship
2023–24Scottish Championship, 7th of 10
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Ayr United Football Club are a football club in Ayr, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League. Formed in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C., their nickname is The Honest Men, from a line in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter". They play at Somerset Park.[3]

The club is currently managed by Scott Brown. The club have spent 34 seasons in Scotland's top division, the last being 1977–78, and have been the champions of the second tier of Scottish football on six occasions, and of the third tier on three occasions. The club's most successful manager, Ally MacLeod, went on to manage the Scotland national team. In 2018, Ayr United secured promotion to the Scottish Championship as champions of League One.

  1. ^ "Ayr United FC". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference capacity was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Club History". Archived from the original on 7 June 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.

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