Irvine Meadow XI
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Irvine Meadow XI is a Scottish junior football (soccer) club, from Ayrshire. Formed in 1897 they are one of the older Ayrshire Junior clubs still playing. Of the two football clubs in Irvine (the other being Irvine Victoria) they are the larger. Indeed, they are traditionally one of the biggest Junior clubs in Scotland, but have not been as successful in recent years as they once were.
Meadow have set many attendance records at other Junior club's grounds and were at one stage invited to turn senior and play in the Scottish Football League. They decided to remain in the 'juniors' and at present compete in the Western Region Junior League.
Irvine Meadow were the first junior club in Scotland to have a home game televised when the 1958 Scottish Cup tie against Fauldhouse Utd was shown on Scotsport.
Meadow are the only junior football club to have travelled by air to a game when they went to St.Andrews to play Birmingham City in a match in which they lost 3-2.
They are based at Meadow Park and play in royal blue.
Honours
- Scottish Junior Cup winners: 1958-59, 1962-63, 1972-73
- Scottish Junior Cup runners-up: 1947-48, 1950-51
- West of Scotland Cup: 1931-32, 1950-51, 1955-56, 1961-62, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1989-90
- Ayrshire First Division winners: 1921-22, 1928-29, 1932-33, 1948-49, 1950-51, 1954-55, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1960-61, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1988-89, 1993-94
- Ayrshire Second Division winners: 1998-99
- Ayrshire Cup: 1898-99, 1900-01, 1903-04, 1913-14, 1931-32, 1953-54, 1957-58, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1983-84, 1984-85
- Ayrshire League Cup: 1927-28, 1928-29, 1950-51, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1961-62, 1982-83
- Ayrshire District Cup: 1899-00, 1903-04, 1909-10, 1913-14, 1914-15, 1932-33, 1938-39, 1946-47, 1950-51, 1951-52, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1957-58, 1970-71, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1981-82, 1987-88.
- Cunninghame District Cup: 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1994-95
- North Ayrshire Cup: 1996-97, 2002/03
- Western Intermediate League Cup: 1927-28, 1928-29
- Irvine & District League: 1910-11
- Dryborough Cup 1972-73.
- Ayrshire Consolation Cup: 1914-15,1915-16,1932-33.
- Ayrshire Charity Cup: 1934-35.
- Moore Trophy 1932-33,1938-39.
- Vernon Trophy: 1949-50,1952-53,1960-61.
- Irvine Herald Cup: 1898-99,1914-15,1924-25.
- St Vincent de Paul Cup:1933-34.
- Kerr & Smith League Cup: 2003-04