Renton F.C.

Renton Football Club was a football club based in Renton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Formed in 1872, they were a prominent team in the early history of Scottish football, and were one of the teams that featured in the first ever Scottish Cup fixture. They won the competition twice, in 1885 and 1888, and were also runners-up three times. Their 6–1 win against Cambuslang in 1888 is the joint record win in a Scottish Cup final. The club were one of the founder members of the Scottish Football League in 1890, but were expelled soon after for breaching the regulations against professionalism. They returned to the League in 1891, but struggled financially and resigned in 1897. They continued to play in minor senior leagues before folding in 1922. Renton were one of the first clubs to win the Football World Championship when in 1888, as Scottish Cup holders, they challenged and beat the FA Cup holders West Bromwich Albion. The club produced 13 internationalists in 11 years also. History Dunbartonshire was a hotbed of the game in the early years of organised football in Scotland, with the county's three leading clubs of the era, Dumbarton, Renton and Vale of Leven all forming in 1872, emerging out of shinty clubs in local factories who were turned to the association game by the influence of Queen's Park F.C. Renton's side was formed by employees of William Striling & Sons, the dye factory of Alexander Wylie, who provided the club with finance and support.