Brechin City 1907/08

Brechin City — Season 1907/08

The Brechin City Football Club team of 1907/08 represents the club in its earliest competitive years, at a time when organised football was becoming firmly embedded within Scottish town life. Founded in 1906, Brechin City were still a young club, establishing their identity and reputation within regional Scottish football during the closing years of the Edwardian era.

This official team photograph captures the squad shortly after the club’s formation, reflecting the discipline and seriousness with which football was already approached in smaller Scottish communities. The players are pictured wearing plain royal blue jerseys, long-sleeved and unadorned, paired with dark shorts and heavy leather boots—typical of early-20th-century Scottish football, where functionality and uniformity took precedence over embellishment.

The presence of the trainer and club secretary, formally dressed and positioned alongside the players, underlines the growing professionalism of the game even at this level. Football clubs were no longer informal gatherings but structured organisations with defined roles, responsibilities, and ambitions.

Behind the team, the packed stand offers a glimpse of local support, with spectators in caps, coats, and suits filling the terrace—evidence of football’s role as a central social ritual in industrial and market towns alike. Matches were community events, drawing men and boys together long before radio or newspaper photography brought the wider game into the home.

The 1907/08 Brechin City side stands as a foundation generation: players who helped shape the club’s early character and secure its place within Scottish football. This image preserves a moment when the club’s future was still unwritten, yet its identity—blue shirts, local pride, and collective resolve—was already firmly in place.

This print is not only a record of a team, but a document of football’s grassroots expansion in early-20th-century Scotland.

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• Size: A3, A4, A5
• Single Sided
• Paper: 400gsm premium art stock
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• Finish: Unframed
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A striking piece of football history — ideal for collectors, historians, and lovers of our national game.

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