Cowdenbeath Football Club
Central Park
Cowdenbeath
Fife
KY4 9QQ
01383 610166 (Fax 01383 512132)
Chairman - Gordon McDougall
Vice Chairman - Albert Tait
Directors - Robert Brownlie, Ian Fraser, Tom Ogilvie,
Joe McNamara, Graham Thomson, Bert Johnson, Jock Johnson.
Secretary - Tom Ogilvie
Commercial Manager - Joe McNamara
Manager - Keith Wright
Assistant Manager - Mickey Weir
Club Captain - Innes Ritchie
Youth Coaches - David Liddle, Stevie McCleish,
Carlo Crolla, Gary McAlpine.
Goalkeeping Coach - Dave Westwood
Physio - Neil Bryson
Kitman - Bert Johnson
Office - Katherine Nellies
Programme - Andrew Mullen, David Allan
Club Shop - John & Evelyn Anderson
Photographer - Paul Brown
Coach Driver - Tom Morton
Catering - Lilian McDougall, Ann Deas
Groundsman - Gordon McDougall jnr
Match Announcer - Jim Stark
General Information - Cowdenbeath play their football
in the Third Division of the Scottish Football League. The club is part time and attendances currently vary between 250
and 500. They are near neighbours of Dunfermline Athletic, Raith Rovers and East Fife.
The town of Cowdenbeath is situated in West Fife, has a population of
9000 and is an ex-mining community. Adjoining towns include Lochgelly and Kelty. The area is also a hotbed of junior
football with half a dozen teams within a few miles, although none in Cowdenbeath.
The club own Central Park which has been their home since 1917. The stadium
is also used for stock car racing and in addition hosts a busy weekly market. The revenue generated from these ventures
ensures that the football club continues to exist on a firm financial footing.
The chairman is Gordon McDougall who owns around 85 percent of the club.
Gordon is a stock car promoter by trade and he bought the club in 1991 when they were deep in debt. The marriage between the
stockies and the fitba may not be to everyone's taste but it is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Gordon works a 10-hour
shift at Central Park and it's difficult to see where the club would be without him. There simply isn't enough space in this
column to list the number of duties he undertakes on behalf of CFC.
The manager is Keith Wright who formerly starred in the Premier League
with Hibs and Dundee. Initially joining Cowden as a player, Wright was subsequently
appointed assistant manager to Gary Kirk as the team mounted a successful promotion challenge. When Kirk was sacked the following
season, Wright took over as boss. He appointed former Easter Road colleague Mickey Weir as his right-hand man.
The club have been running a successful under-19 side for over a
decade and were a founding member of the Scottish Professional Youth League. In those heady days, the Cowden lads regularly
defeated the likes of Rangers, Celtic and Hearts. Inevitably, a club of Cowdenbeath's size couldn't sustain this standard
and the growth of professionally organised youth football has seen the big clubs form their own set-up.
Players who have come through the ranks to star for the Blue Brazil include
Craig Winter, Gary Wood, Graeme Brown, Ross Godfrey and Liam Buchanan. The man in charge of the youths is Davie Liddle and
he donates an incredible amount of time to the club, even driving the lads to far-flung destinations such as Elgin and Dumfries.
The reserve side play in the Scottish Reserve League East.
This ensures that fringe players are kept on their toes with a series of competitive fixtures.
After a period of local indifference, the Supporters Club was relaunched
in the year 2000 and a coach now travels to every away fixture to give the Blue Brazil vital backing.
