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Forfar United

Full name	Forfar United Junior Football Club
Nickname(s)	United
Founded	1881 (as Forfar East End) 1974 (as Forfar Albion) 2020 (as Forfar United)
Ground	Guthrie Park Lochside Road Forfar
Ground Capacity	2,500
Manager	Chris Kettles
Home colours Away colours

Forfar United Junior Football Club is a Scottish football team. They are based in Forfar, Angus. The club plays its home games at Guthrie Park.

The current club was created in August 2020. This happened when two local teams joined together. These teams were Lowson United and Forfar Albion. Forfar Albion itself was formed in 1974. It was created by combining two older local clubs. These were Forfar Celtic (started in 1891) and Forfar East End (started in 1881). For one season, the club was called Forfar East End Celtic. Then, in 1975, they changed their name to Albion.

Club History and Leagues

Early Years and Junior Football

Before the 2005–06 season, Forfar Albion played in a league called Scottish Junior Football Tayside Division One. This league was part of the Scottish Junior Football Association's Eastern Region.

Changes in the League System

The Scottish Junior Football Association changed how Junior football was organized in eastern Scotland. This happened before the 2006–07 season. Forfar Albion was then placed in the Scottish Junior Football East Region North Division. This division had twelve teams.

Recent Seasons and New Beginnings

In the 2006–07 season, Forfar Albion finished ninth. They finished 12th in both the 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons. However, they started to show good signs of getting better during the 2009–10 season.

Under their new name, Forfar United, the club finished 11th in the 2022–23 season. For the 2024–25 season, the club started to rebuild with many young players. They also welcomed a new management team. This team includes Connor Yeats, Akka Veli, Mark Caldwell, Fraser Reid (who is the goalkeeper coach), and Ben Coutts (who is the physio).

First-Team Squad

This is a list of the players in the Forfar United first team.

No. Position Player GK Jack Shaw DF David Macauley DF jaws gordon DF Ben Ranstead DF Joel Nixon DF Bryn Thomson DF Aiden Crighton DF Rhys Garmany MF Kyle Buik MF Mitchell johnston MF Thomas Smith MF Jay MacDonald MF Evan Kidd MF Ross Bell MF Lawrence Williams (loan from Dundee St James F.C.) MF Jack Davie FW Rene Rivera Diazgranados FW Owen Gray FW Cain Buchanan FW Connor Birse (C) FW Jay Yule FW Tobiloba Fasoranti FW Richie Low FW Aaron Mitchell FW Cameron Gauhl FW Cemi Gokalp

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