Peebles Rovers FC

Peebles Rovers FC

Peebles Rovers

Peebles Rovers, are a former Scottish League football club, based in the small burgh town of Peebles on the Scottish Borders.  They were members of the League from 1923 to 1926.  The football club was formed in 1893 and joined the Border League in 1902 and in 1909 the Scottish Football Union, at the time regarded as the strongest non-league competition in Scotland. The high turnover of clubs, however, led to declining standards and the competition was wound up in 1915. Rovers rejoined the Border League in 1919 before playing in the Eastern League (1921-22) and the Western League (1922-23). In 1923, 11 of the 12 Western League teams were incorporated into the Scottish League as the new Third Division. They had an undistinguished career, finishing 14th (out of 16) and 8th, and were lying 15th (out of 16) when the competition was abandoned in 1926 in disarray. Peebles Rovers joined the Scottish Alliance the following season (1926-27), which was restructured because of the influx of former Third Division teams. Peebles went out of business in 1927 but were reformed as a junior club.  They are now called Peebles FC.

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