| Full name | Auchinleck Talbot Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Bot | ||
| Founded | 1909 | ||
| Ground | Beechwood Park, Auchinleck (Capacity: 4000) |
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| President |  Morton Wright |
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| Manager | Tommy Sloan |
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| League | Stagecoach Super League, Premier League | ||
| 2007–08 | Stagecoach Super League, Premier League, 4th | ||
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Auchinleck Talbot are a Scottish junior football club based in Auchinleck, near Cumnock, Ayrshire. They currently compete in the West Region Superleague Premier Division and are one of the biggest junior clubs in Scotland.
They play in a local derby against near neighbours and biggest rivals Cumnock Juniors. The club colours are gold and black.
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History
A public meeting was held at Kirkland's Green in Auchinleck forms a new football club in 1907. Auchinleck Talbot was formed in 1909 and are named after Lord Talbot de Maldahide, the man who gave them their Beechwood Park home.
However the Talbot suffix was not the first choice but rather the result of losing a play off against local rivals Lugar Boswell Thistle for the right to use the 'Boswell Thistle' in their name. A 4–1 defeat for Auchinleck meant that the title has since resided with Lugar and not Auchinleck, a town for whom the name Boswell is synonymous and omnipresent.
The clubs Beechwood Park is opened in 1909 with a charity match between The Old Players and The Merchant's. Talbot make their team debut the same year when they defeat the juvenile side Highouse Rangers 4-0. Weeks later they lost their first competitive game at Cronberry Eglington in the league. Their first win comes in September 1909 when they defeat Patna doon Athletic in their first Scottish Cup tie.
Talbot folded in 1916 due to financial problems and the First World War but make a comeback four years later, winning the Ayrshire Cup by defeating Irvine Meadow 3-0 at Rugby Park. That same year they set a club goalscoring record in the Scottish Cup defeating Craigbank 11-0 at Beechwood
The club have a proud record in Junior football, with eight Scottish Junior Cup wins and since 1920 eleven league championships. They are the only club to have won the Scottish Junior Cup three times in a row. They made a remarkable achievement of winning The West of Scotland cup 9 years out of 10 between 1979 and 1989 although they have not won it since.[1]
The club opened a new stand with a friendly match against local Scottish league side Ayr United on 9th October 2005 (the senior side winning 6-2)
Honours
- Winners (8): 1949, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2006, 2009
- Runners-up (1): 2001–02
West Superleague Premier Division
- League Champions (1): 2005–06
- Runners-up (1): 2006–07
- League Champions (11): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1996–97
- Runners Up (4): 1993–94, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00
West of Scotland Cup
- Winners (10): 1947–48, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89
Matchday action at Beechwood Park
Ayrshire Cup
- Winners (11): 1920, 1939, 1956, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1994, 1996, 1997
Ayrshire League Cup
- Winners (10): 1948, 1950, 1978, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2007
Ayrshire District Cup
- Winners (7): 1948, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1992, 1997
Cumnock & Doon Valley Cup
- Winners (4): 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995
East Ayrshire Cup
- Winners (4): 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002
Ayrshire Super Cup
- Winners (5): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000
Current squad
- As of 14 October 2009.
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