East Stirlingshire is a Scottish football club from the town of  Falkirk.  The club was founded in 1880 as Bainsford Britannia but changed  to its current name a year later. East Stirlingshire has a relatively undistinguished League record with just one Second Division championship in 1932 to their credit. They went straight down the following season. They reached the top tier again in 1963  by finishing  as Division Two runners-up to St. Johnstone but as in the 1930s t relegation followed within a year. East Stirlingshire is arguably best  known for the controversy that it stirred up in 1964 when the Steedman family who controlled the club moved them to Clydebank where they merged with the local junior side and played for the 1964-65 season as ES Clydebank.  After a heated debate in the courts  the Steedman’s actions were nullified and East Stirlingshire was revived under their old name back in Falkirk.  The club continued to struggle and in 1975 they were in the third tier of Scottish football relegated from the old Second Division to the new one (now the third tier). In 1980 they were promoted back to the second level.  In 1994 East Stirlingshire were placed in the newly created Third Division (fourth level) following the reorganisation of the SFL.  Between 2003 and 2006 and again in 2012 they finished bottom of the Scottish League.  In 2007–08 the club left Firs Park, their home since 1921, and currently ground share with local rivals Stenhousemuir F.C. at Ochilview Park. In 2016, East Stirlingshire became the first club ever to be relegated out of the national league system. It currently competes in the Lowland League, the fifth tier of the Scottish football league system.