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Airdrieonians Football Club

LC control no.no2011158126
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Corporate name headingAirdrieonians Football Club
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Variant(s)Airdrieonians FC (Soccer team)
Diamonds (Soccer team)
Airdrie (Soccer team)
See alsoPredecessor: Excelsior Football Club
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Successor: Airdrie United FC
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Beginning date1881
Ending date2002
Associated countryGreat Britain Scotland
LocatedAirdrie (Scotland)
Field of activitySoccer
Found inAirdrieonians Football Club, 2002: p. 7 (nicknamed The Diamonds; Airdrieonians FC; formed in 1878 as Excelsior; in July 2002, Ian McCall ... put the club into full liquidation)
Airdrie United FC WWW homepage, Oct. 10, 2011: Club history (Airdrieonians FC (1878 - 2002))
Wikipedia WWW site, Oct. 10, 2011 (Airdrie United FC ... almost universally accepted as a reincarnation of Airdrieonians)
Only the lonely, issue 36, 2000: title page verso (Airdrieonians) page 5 (Aidrie)
Wikipedia, viewed 29 March 2019 (Airdrieonians F.C. (1878); Airdrieonians Football Club, more commonly known as Airdrie; Scottish professional football team from the town of Airdrie, in the Monklands area of Lanarkshire; became defunct at the end of the Scottish Football League 2001-02 season; founded in 1878 as Excelsior Football Club, changing its name to Airdrieonians in 1881; for most of its history, Airdrieonians played at Broomfield Park, which was opened in 1892 and sold in 1994; four years later its Excelsior Stadium opened)
Wikipedia, viewed 29 March 2019: under Airdrieonians F.C. (Airdrie United Football Club was formed in 2002 following the liquidation of the original club; the club's official name was changed in 2013 to the traditional name of Airdrieonians)
Associated languageeng