Ayr United FC
Football (Soccer)
Ayr, Scotland
Ayr United Football Club are a Scottish association football club based in Ayr that plays in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.
About Ayr United FC
Ayr United Football Club are a Scottish association football club based in Ayr that plays in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.
Formed in 1910 after the merger of former clubs Ayr Parkhouse F.C. and Ayr F.C. (the latter being a prior merger of Ayr Thistle F.C. and Ayr Academicals F.C. in 1879), their nickname is "The Honest Men", taken from a line in the poem "Tam o’ Shanter" by Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. They play at Somerset Park.
The club have spent 34 seasons in Scotland’s top division altogether, though the last was in the 1977–78 season. The club have been the champions of the second tier of Scottish football on six occasions and of the third tier twice, but have not won any national cup competitions. The club’s most famous and most successful manager is Ally MacLeod, who went on to manage the Scottish national football team. In May 2016 United secured promotion to the Scottish Championship via the Playoffs.
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