Blackburn United F.C.

Formed in 1978, the club joined the junior grade of football two years later before taking the step up into Senior football in 2018. United play their home matches at the purpose built Purdie Worldwide Community Stadium (New Murrayfield Park), which has room for 1,100 spectators, in the centre of the town. The whole facility that is the Purdie Worldwide Community Stadium complex boasts a six-dressing room pavilion and associated amenities, an enclosed and floodlit 3G main Stadium pitch and three further 11-a-side pitches.

The club was one of many to move from junior football to the East of Scotland Football League in 2018.[1]

The Club forms the pinnacle of the Blackburn United Community Sports Club, a fully accredited SFA Community Club and Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation which, in addition to adult semi-professional football, caters for under age football at all ages from under-9 to under-20 as well as ladies, girls and additional needs football and a variety of other sporting activities. For younger age groups there is a soccer school with its own dedicated coaches.

As of 14 November 2020[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  SCO Craig Saunders — GK  SCO Gavin King — DF  SCO Martin Lawrie — DF  SCO James Mildren — DF  SCO Finlay Anderson — DF  SCO Kyle McClung — DF  SCO John Drummond — DF  SCO Lewis Alexander — MF  SCO Stuart MacLeod — MF  SCO David Howe — MF  SCO Michael Browne (captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  SCO Kieran Swanson — MF  SCO Dominic Kane — MF  SCO Marc Smith (on loan from Livingston) — MF  SCO Justin Watson (on loan from Livingston) — MF  SCO Richie Hutton — MF  SCO Marley Redfern (on loan from Hamilton Academical) — MF  SCO Calum McDowall — FW  SCO Danny Campbell — FW  SCO Laurie Devine — FW  SCO Jordan Devine

• Manager: Mark Campbell
• Assistant Manager: Jamie McCormick
• Coaches: Craig Young, Podge Dixon, Andrew Meechan, Dougie McIntyre
• Physio: Lee Reid

The following players have either played for Blackburn United before going onto forge careers at a higher level or have played for one of the Club's predecessors before similarly going onto play at a higher level;

• Alan Irvine former Liverpool and Dundee United player.[3]
• Chris Innes former Dundee United, Kilmarnock, St Mirren and Inverness Caledonian Thistle player who also captained Gretna to the 2006 Scottish Cup Final.[3]
• Tommy Farr former Bradford Park Avenue player. Tommy was the goalkeeper for United's predecessors Blackburn Athletic when they won the 1934 Mid Lothian League Championship.
• Jimmy Stein former Everton player. Jimmy played for another of United's predecessors Blackburn Rovers in 1924 and was a winger who scored Everton's first-ever goal at Wembley when netting in the 1933 FA Cup Final.

• Official club site
• Historical club website
• Blackburn United Community Sports Club
• New Murrayfield Park
• Old Murrayfield Park