Fort William Shinty Club is a shinty club from Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland. The first team are the present champions of the Marine Harvest Premier League having finally broken the stranglehold of Kingussie. The club also has a second team and a vibrant youth system. The manager for 2007 will be club stalwart Drew McNeil. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The term Battle of Inverlochy may refer to: Battle of Inverlochy (1431) Battle of Inverlochy (1645) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Fort William may refer to Fort William, Scotland, a town in the Scottish Highlands. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... // A shinty game in progress Shinty (Scottish Gaelic camanachd or iomain) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. ... // Fort William (Scots Gaelic: An Gearasdan, The Garrison) is the largest town in the west highlands of Scotland. ... Lochaber (Scottish Gaelic, Loch Abar) refers to a large area of the central and western Scottish Highlands. ... This article is about the country. ... Kingussie Camanachd is a shinty team from Kingussie, Scotland and according to the Guinness Book of Records 2005, is World sports most successful sporting team of all time, winning 19 consecutive league championships and going 4 years unbeaten at one stage in the early 1990s. ...

History

Fort William was officially constituted in 1893 but the club slowly emerged into the sport and only entered the Camanachd Cup in 1912. The club folded on occasion in the 1900s and 1920s and had very little success except a Camanachd Cup semi final in 1937 against Oban Celtic and a sprinkling of junior cups. The Camanachd Association Challenge Cup or the Camanachd Cup or Scottish Cup as it is known is the premier prize in the sport of shinty. ... Oban Celtic is a shinty team from Oban, Argyll, Scotland. ...

Unfortunately for the club, the rise of Fort William as a force in shinty has coincided with the 20 year dominance of Kingussie. However, the club heralded its arrival as a major force by winning the Macaulay Cup in 1991 and reaching the semi final of the Camanachd the same year then finally joining the ranks of clubs who have won the blue riband event in 1992, beating Kingussie 1-0 in Glasgow. For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ...

Fort continued to perform well and reached the final in 1994 where they lost to Kyles Athletic. The new millennium saw Fort William habitually come in second behind the unstoppable Kingussie team and began to be seen as the team most likely to break the Badenoch dominance. Kyles Athletic Football and Shinty Club is a shinty team from Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland. ... A millennium (pl. ... Badenoch and Strathspey was created in 1975 as a one of the eight council disricts of the Highland local government region of Scotland. ...

The Fort reappeared in the Camanachd Cup Final in 2003 but was defeated by Kingussie 6-0 on home soil. The next in 2004 then saw the Fort go down to an unfancied Inverary side 1-0 in Oban. When the side again reached the final in 2005 against local rivals, Kilmallie, it was seen by the wider community as case of now or never. The game, held between the two Fort William teams in the town itself. is widely regarded as the most exciting final of recent times, Fort winning with a last gasp goal to win 3-2. Inveraray Shinty Club (Buidhean Camanachd Inbhir Aora) is a shinty club from Inveraray, Argyll, Scotland. ... For other uses, see Oban (disambiguation). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kilmallie Shinty Club is a shinty team from Caol, Fort William, Scotland. ...

Further glory was to follow the next year in 2006, when Fort William finally broke Kingussie's dominance of the league title (a World record in any sport) after a consistent level of performance throughout the year meant that Newtonmore were pipped to the title. Kingussie did regain a modicum of revenge by defeating the Fort comprehensively in both the MacTavish Cup (The North Senior Trophy) and the final of the Camanachd Cup in Dunoon. Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Newtonmore Camanachd Club is a shinty club from Newtonmore, Badenoch, Scotland. ... Dunoon, looking North from the Castle hill with the old Victorian pier to the right and The Queens Hall on the left The Holy Loch seen across the Firth of Clyde with Dunoon on the left The PS Waverley leaves Dunoon Pier, to sail up the Firth of Clyde. ...

Fort again won the Camanachd Cup in 2007 by defeating Inveraray 3-1 in Inverness.

Fort William and local rivals, Kilmallie, have succeeded in making shinty the main sport of the town and their success is in comparison to the distinct lack of success enjoyed by local Highland League team, Fort William F.C.. // A shinty game in progress Shinty (Scottish Gaelic camanachd or iomain) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. ... The Highland Football League (HFL) is a league of football (soccer) clubs operating not in just the Scottish highlands as the name may suggest, but across all of the North of Scotland. ... Fort William FC is a football team currently playing in the Highland Football League in Scotland. ...

Despite the club's profile in the town, efforts are afoot to evict the club from its ground, An Aird, in order to build a supermarket. The local authority, Highland Council, have come under fire for their care of the park, especially after the playing surface was stripped bare by rabbits. The company behind the planned development were unequivocal in stating in April 2007 that there would be no development upon the An Aird pitch. [1]. The Highland area (Roinn na Gàidhealtachd in Gaelic) is a unitary authority area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest administrative region in Scotland. ...

The club provides the large bulk of the international side. Wing centre Gary Innes is a renowned accordionist.[2] Gary Innes (b. ...

External Links

• Fort @ Shinty.com
• Fort William Official Site
• Gary Innes Website