Youth Fixtures
Fixtures lists for our Youth Development Initiative teams have been uploaded to The Official Website.

Click here to view the fixtures for our Under 13, 15, 17, & 19 teams.

Arbroath 1 v 2 Stirling Albion
Stirling defeated Arbroath 2-1 at Gayfield Park on Saturday to record our first win of the season. Trailing 1-0 after 20 minutes when Scott Gates put the home side ahead, The Binos levelled 5 minutes later through midfielder John O'Neill.

Stirling went ahead shortly after the interval when David McKenna scored his first competitive goal since November 2007 and despite having new boy Mark Docherty sent off with over 30 minutes to play and conceding a penalty, Myles Hogarth and Stirling held strong and picked up three welcome points.

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Stirling team:- Hogarth, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Taggart, Dochery, Harty, McKenna, Grehan.
Subs:- Murphy, Waddell, Corr, hamilton, Christie.

Arbroath team:- Hill, Rennie, Black, Raeside, Bisho, Fraser, McMullen, Lunan, Tosh, Sellars, Gates.
Subs:- Morrison, Weir, Masson, Simpson, Campbell.

SAFC Youths under 13 team looking for sponsorship

The newly formed under 13 squad are looking for some sponsorship to aid them in the running costs of the team. Local Electrical Contractor Andy Rogerson from Cowie has kicked things off by sponsoring the match ball for the home match against Queens Park scheduled for this evening at Forthbank. For more information click on to the Youth Team link on this website.

26th August 2008

First Young Red Signs For Youths
Stirling Albion Young Reds are delighted to announce that youngster Alex Cleland has been signed by SAFC Youth Development Initiative Under 13s. Alex becomes the first graduate to Youth Development level from our Young Reds Scheme and in particular the FVFDA Development squads.

Steven Leiper, Young Reds Co-Ordinator said, "To have produced our first Youth Development player after only one season participating in the FVFDA structure is a real achievement by Alex and his former coaches Willlie Maxwell and Norman McLay.

When we started our FVFDA teams last season we stated that one of our ambitions was to offer our players the opportunity to progress along the pathway to the SAFC Youth Development Initiative structure and the success we have had with Alex proves we are delivering against that ambition."

Everyone involved with Young Reds and Stirling Albion FC wish Alex all the very best in the Youth Development Initiative and we will all follow his progress there with interest.

Stirling Albion v Ayr United Webcast
Video highlights of our match against Ayr United on Saturday at Forthbank are now online

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Allan Moore Aftermatch Comments v Ayr United
"The team battled back well from two goals down and I'm dissapointed we never went onto win the match. We are still building this new team and we have got to take confidence for the way we matched Ayr who are top of the table. We should not have needed to battle back though as we told the players before the match that Ayr start matches well and what happens, we are two down in the first 10 minutes again to individual errors and that has dissapointed me. But some of our fans need to give us more backing, they gave us some stick at two goals down but we are still building a team and need to build confidence in a new team and a team that has youngsters like Taggart and Corr.

Once we got back going we played some good football and Nathan Taggart got on the ball more and did well and we created 6 or 7 good chances.

New signing Mark Docherty came into the team and did well but came down with cramp late on. Mark is here at the club to push into the first team and do well for us and hopefully this will allow him to move on. He got on the ball well and put in good tackles and I had to play Martin Grehan out wide left as Stewart Devine has a groin injury which could see him out for some time, we put Martin in that position and he did well.

I am stil looking to bring in one more midfielder and if that happens I think we will have the players that once settled will do well for us."

Stirling Albion 2 v 2 Ayr United
Stirling scorers - Taggart, Harty(Pen)
Ayr scorers - Prunty (2)

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Stirling Albion recovered from the loss of two early goals to draw 2-2 against Ayr United at Forthbank Stadium on Saturday.
An entertaining match saw the visitors race into two goal lead thanks to two well taken goals by Bryan Punty.

Stirling pulled a goal back before the break when Nathan Taggart slotted home and Ian Harty completed the Stirling comeback from the penalty spot midway through the second half when he converted after he was fouled by Mark Dempsey
Stirling included new signing's Mark Docherty and Chris Hamilton in team to face Ayr United. Other new signing Kevin Ross not cleared to play yet

Stirling team: - Hogarth, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Taggart, Docherty, Harty, McKenna, Grehan
Subs:- Waddle, Murphy, Corr, Hamilton, Christie.

Ayr team:- Grindlay, Dempsie, Easton, Walker, Campbell, Stevenson, Agnew, Aitken, Prunty, Williams, Keenan.
Subs:- Borris, McGowan, Gormley, Weaver, Stewart

Final Week To Score Tickets in Irn Bru Family Football Month
Following a great start to the Scottish Football League season, sponsor IRN-BRU has seen fans across the country take part in their 'Family Football' offer. And with the offer ending this weekend, IRN-BRU is encouraging families to use this opportunity to take their children along to their local football ground and get behind their home team.

Launched at the start of the season, Family Football has given kids under 16 the chance to get into their local football ground for free when with an accompanying adult. Valid for the first four games (until 23^rd August), free tickets have been available for any match in the 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd division when you buy a promotional glass bottle of IRN-BRU and an adult match day ticket.

A massive six million bottles have been sporting the on pack family ticket offer, which aimed to get more local people behind their home football club in Scotland

Martin Steele, Brand Manager for IRN-BRU commented: 'The Scottish Football League is absolutely packed with talent and its fans are truly passionate and dedicated.  SFL teams and their support represent the lifeblood of football in Scotland and this ticket giveaway has been our way of  trying to get even more  people behind local club football  and  to encourage more people  to share in the coming season at their local grounds.

Three Agree To Join Stirling
Stirling Albion will this week complete the signing's of defender Kevin Ross and midfielder's Chris Hamilton and Mark Docherty.

Boss Allan Moore confirmed to The Official Website on Wednesday that all three players have agreed terms with the club and will be signed in time to be included in the squad to face Ayr United at Forthbank on Saturday.

Both Chris Hamilton and ex-Celtic under 19 player Kevin Ross have been at the club for a number of weeks and have appeared as trialists within that time.

While 20 year old attacking left sided midfielder Mark Docherty has left Premier League St Mirren to sign for The Binos.

Boss Allan Moore hopes to add at least one more player to his squad before the transfer window closes at the end of August.
With the return from injury of Sean Roycroft and the signing of Kevin Ross, Moore hopes it will create good competiton for places at the heart of the defence while the addition of two new midfielders will give the boss options in midfield.

Moore also confirmed that Martin Grehan has been carrying a niggling foot injury for a number of weeks and although the injury should not see the big forward miss any upcoming games he is being referred to a specialist to try and rectify the problem.

Losing 2-0 at half time, Martin Grehan pulled a goal back for Stirling in the second half. Former Bino Mark Crilley featured for the junor side.

Boss Allan Moore has been keen to view trialist players in matches and arranged this match and last week's match against Cowdenbeath to decide whether to offer any of the trialist's contracts.

Contracts Offered to Hamilton and Ross
Stirling Albion have offered contracts to midfielder Chris Hamilton and defender Kevin Ross.

Both players have been at the club for a number of weeks and have appeared as trialists within that time. It is hoped both players will be signed before Saturday's match against Ayr United at Forthbank Stadium.

Boss Allan Moore is also pursuing more players and is eager to have other deals done ahead of this Saturday's match.

Landmark For Hogarth
Goalkeeper Myles Hogarth made his 200th appearance in a Stirling jersey on Saturday against Stranraer. Myles joined the club in March 2003 from neighbours Alloa Athletic and has had 56 shut outs in his 200 appearances. He began his career at Hearts as a youngster and in season 1995/96 he played one league for the Edinburgh side.

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Stranraer 1 v 0 Stirling Albion
The club's poor start to the new season continued on Saturday at Stair Park as Stranraer defeated The Binos 1-0 in Division Two.

After a goalless first half a goal four minutes from time by the home side was enough to make sure we have only collected one point from our opening three league matches.

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Stirling Defeat Cowdenbeath
Stirling Albion defeated Cowdebeath 4-3 tonight(Thursday). The match at Forthbank Stadium was arranged by Allan Moore to cast his eye over trialists and featured a Stirling team consisting of a mixture of youth and squad players along with trialists Kevin Ross, Shaun Fagan, Paul Gable and Chris Hamilton. Signed players included Steven Waddell, David McKenna, Sean Roycroft and Scott Christie.

Stirling ended the first half leading 3-2 with goals from Waddell(2) and McKenna while trialist Chris Hamilton added a fourth in the second half.

Stirling Face Stranraer Test
Stirling Albion travel south this Saturday to face Stranraer. The Stair Park side gained entry into Division Two after the demise of Gretna and like Stirling have drawn and lost in their opening two league matches.

Binos Boss Allan Moore is desperate to see his side gain their first win and heads to Stranraer knowing that if the team are going to be promotion contenders this season, coming away with points from tricky venues like Stair Park is a must.

Moore is trying to bolster his squad for this match and will also use two upcoming reserve matches against Cowdenbeath and Irvine Meadow within the next week to make final decisions on signing various trialists that are currently at the club.

Loan players are also a possibility before the end of August transfer deadline as Moore has been speaking to several clubs but until other clubs are satisfied with their own squad size, they are releuctant at this stage to make a decision to loan out players to other clubs.

Stirling Albion Historical Teamkits
The club have been made aware of an excellent website about historical teamkits of clubs throughout the country. A brief description on Stirling Albion is below but we recommend clicking on the website www.historicalkits.co.uk for an indepth look at our historical kits throughout the years.

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A Brief History of Stirling Albion's Kits
Prior to the Second World War, Stirling had been represented in the Scottish Football League by King's Park FC. Formed in 1849, King's Park had turned out in an all navy-blue outfit featuring a red stripe sewn into the side of players' knickers, long shorts that reached below the knee. The team played in maroon and then red tops in the mid 1880s before adopting cardinal red and white stripes in 1892. They wore stripes until 1939 when a set of cardinal red shirts with white sleeves were adopted.

In 1940, after the club had closed down for the duration of World War Two, the Luftwaffe dropped a single bomb on Stirling and it happened to fall on King's Park's ground. When the war ended and plans were laid to reinstate the Scottish Football League (SFL), Thomas Ferguson, a coal magnate, offered to host King's Park in the brand new Annfield Stadium that he planned to build. the King's Park board declined the offer, preferring to wait for war compensation. By the time they received this, in 1953, it was just enough to cover the club's debts and they went out of business.

Meanwhile Ferguson forged ahead and formed Stirling Albion FC to play in his brand new stadium and when the SFL was reinstated in 1946, the new club was elected in King's Park's place.

In their first season (1945-46), Albion wore red shirts with white collars, white shorts, red stockings with white turnovers. On joining the SFL they adopted red and white hooped shirts but reverted to plain red tops for the 1947-48 season. Between 1948 and 1950 they reverted to hooped shirts but in 1950 they changed to red shirts with white collars and sleeves and white shorts. This outfit became the club's signature kit and has been revived on several occasions.

In 1959, Albion bowed to fashion with a smart new all-white kit featuring two red bands across the chest and red and white trimmed V necks. Shorts were significantly shorter than the baggy items worn previously and were now adorned with a red stripe down each side. Between 1961 and 1964 the Stirlingshire arms, a saltire cross with a red lion rampant, appeared on the shirts.

In 1965, again following a general trend, Albion adopted an all-white kit which was, in 1967-68, relieved by two red rings on the stocking turnover. In 1968, the team adopted classic red shirts with white crew necks, white shorts and red stockings while in 1971, the shorts became red. Any resemblance to the Manchester United and Liverpool sides of the period was probably coinicidental.

After 13 seasons in all-red, the Binos reverted to white sleeves and shorts and by this stage, sponsorship was appearing on the players' shirts - initially this was for TNT, the parcel delivery firm. Between 1988 and 1993 the shoulders as well as the sleeves were white.

The 1995-96 kit was the first to combine red shirts and shorts with white sleeves with the addition of black flashes at the shoulder seam. The following season, the players turned out in red and white halved shirts with shorts to match. There is a gap in my records for 1997-2001 (so please get in touch if you can help).
The strip worn in 2001-02 was quite a departure for the club, consisting of red shirts and black shorts with red, white and black trim.

In 2002, Albion reverted to all red and signed a sponsorship deal with Prudential Insurance, whose name still appears on the players' shirts. The kits between 2002 and 2004 had white side panels and seams down the sleeve: white sleeves returned in 2004-05 and it was back to all-red with white trim in 2005.

The club's kits are now manufactured by Vandanel, a French company and follow the all red pattern although for this season only the manufacturer's logos and club badge are in white.

Dave Moor
Historical Football Kits
To view a full graphic history of Albion's kits visit www.historicalkits.co.uk

Forthbank Draw
Both Stirling Albion and East Fife collected their first points of the new league season on Saturday after drawing 1-1 at Forthbank.

John O'Neill headed Stirling ahead after 54 minutes but Stirling were made to pay for slack play in midfield 12 minutes later when East Fife took advantage and Dougie Cameron headed the Methil side level.

Both sides failed to then find a winning goal but thankfully Stirling's losing start to the new season has come to an end.

Stirling:- Hogarth, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Corr, Murphy, Harty, Grehan, Taggart.
Subs:- McKenna(Grehan), Devine, Waddell(Harty), Trialist-Chris Hamilton(Corr), Christie.

Unfortunately the website will not be updated fully over the next few days. Normal service will be resumed early next week.

East Fife Visit Forthbank
After three defeats to open the new season in all competitions Stirling Albion Boss Allan Moore will be looking to Saturday's visit of East Fife to Forthbank to put an end to our disappointing start.

The Methil side are hotly tipped to do well this season but like Stirling have not started the new season as they would have liked and with ex-Bino Paul Nugent in their squad will also be hoping to collect their first league points of the season.
Kick off at Forthbank on Saturday is 3pm.

Arbroath 3 v 2 Stirling Albion
Stirling's losing start to the new season continued on Wednesday evening wih a 3-2 defeat against Arbroath in the first round of the League Cup.

Half Time - Arbroath 0 v 1 Stirling

Stirling scorers:- Graham, Harty

Stirling team:- Christie, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Taggart, Murphy, Harty, Grehan, Devine.
Subs:-McKenna, Waddell, Corr, Roycroft, Hogarth.

Cup Duty for Stirling
After our defeat in the opening league match against Brechin City last Saturday attention now turns to Wednesday's clash at Arbroath in the League Cup as The Binos look to halt a two game losing streak to the start of the new season.

Both injury concerns from Saturday Liam Corr and Andy Graham both trained on Monday evening and provided there is no reaction after training, both should feature at Gayfield.
Kick off is 7.45pm.

Brechin City 2 v 1 Stirling Albion
Stirling's league season got off to losing start going down 2-1 to Brechin City at Glebe Park. Trailing by one goal at half time Ian Harty levelled for The Binos just after the break and despite Stirling creating numerous second half chances they failed to convert any more and were punished late on when Brechin scored to send The Binos back down the road pointless.

Afterwards Boss Allan Moore said "We just couldnt bury the game in the second half, I couldnt see Brechin scoring again and we were well on top but we didnt put our chances away, we started to play a couple of slack passes and were then hit with a suckerpunch at the end. I thought we played very well in the second half and passed the ball well and I am sickened we are heading back down the road with nothing"

Stirling team:-
Hogarth, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Corr, Murphy, Harty, Grehan, Devine.
Subs:- Taggart(Corr), McKenna(Grehan), Waddle(Harty), Trialist - Shaun Fagan, Christie.

Brechin team:-
Nelson, Murie, Dyer, Ward, White, Janaczyk, Byers, Diack, Twigg, King, Smith.
Subs:- Smith, Nelson, Walker, Canning, McCluskey

MATCH REPORT

Pru Get Shirty Again With The Binos
Prudential has renewed its club sponsorship of Stirling Albion FC in a move that sees the life and pensions giant continue its support of the club to the end of the 2009/2010 season.

The announcement comes as the Binos re-build in SFL Division Two for another promotion push and is a huge boost to the finances of the Forthbank based club. Under a substantial five-figure deal, Prudential will continue to be the official club sponsor while securing exclusive shirt sponsorship rights in addition to many other staff, community, promotional & advertising opportunities with the club.

Prudential’s Steven Leiper, a life-long Binos fan, who helped broker the deal said: "We are delighted to continue our support of Stirling Albion not just at a first team level but through the ‘Young Reds’ junior supporters club set-up too which is attended by over 100 children aged 5 -14 years each week.
Our longstanding relationship with Stirling Albion puts Prudential at the heart of the community in the City of Stirling and allows us to work closely with the club to maximise the benefits of this close relationship."

Peter McKenzie, Chairman of Stirling Albion Football Club said “Prudential has been our official club & shirt sponsors for more than seven years now and the arrangement has provided much needed revenue to the club. To have such a well kent name on the shirt and for Prudential to renew its association with the club is a fantastic boost. This is my 25th season with the club and I’m looking to hang up my boots.
It’s no secret that I’ve decided to put the club up for sale after such a long period at the helm and the news of Prudential continuing its relationship with Stirling Albion is a boost for any potential buyer because of the benefits that this deal brings to the club.”

Stirling Albion Chairman Peter McKenzie with Prudential's Steven Leiper.