Mr Ferguson said that the players and backroom staff at Glebe Park had "never let their heads go down". Hamilton Academical took their place in the fifth round. With both a new stand and floodlighting added to Glebe Park,[13] the club played with a new ambition until finally breaking its duck with a title win in the 1982–83 season. Played: 36 Drawn: 4 Lost: 32 . But he praised his team's positive attitude, saying: "It's been hard for the players but they've never lacked effort or attitude or whatever. Barry Smith has left Brechin after nine months in charge. Gloriously bad, of course. The club, led by the management of Michael O'Neill and with the goal threat of Iain Russell, finished fourth in the following season's Second Division and under new arrangements this entitled it to a place in promotion play-offs, although a 6–1 aggregate mauling at the hands of Airdrie United put paid to any hopes of another immediate return to the second tier.
This meant Brechin became the first senior Scottish side in 126 years to fail to win in a league season. Isaac Lane's strike was the sole moment of cheer for Dods' side, as Stephen Dobbie scored a hat-trick and Lyndon Dykes bagged a double for the visitors from Dumfries. "I'll go to the presentation tonight, see the players get their presentation," she said. [4] The club failed to make any headway in the doomed division and disappeared from the Scottish League at the end of the 1925–26 season along with most of the other teams in the division. They won promotion from League One last season via the play-offs. BRECHIN CITY have become the first senior Scottish side to fail to pick up a victory in a season 126 years. Edinburgh had Gabriel McGill to thank for a first-half strike which proved decision against Elgin, while Stirling's Andrew Ryan got the only goal of the game at home to Annan. Ferguson says the former Hibernian and St Johnstone defender, and his assistants Lee Bailey and Steve Campbell, has kept his part-time players motivated. The club was relegated again after two seasons and finished the decade back in the bottom division. Queen's Park, meanwhile, were kept at bay until the 83rd minute when substitute Ross MacLean struck to seal victory at Stair Park. But chairman Ken Ferguson told the BBC there is no "doom and gloom" surrounding the club. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. The team was admitted to the Scottish league in 1923 with the formation of the original Third Division. Brechin went into the 2018–2019 season as favourites for promotion; however they ended up in yet another relegation battle which resulted in the club finishing bottom of League One and back to back relegations.[29]. BBC Scotland takes you through Scotland's night of celebration via the eyes of the players who lived it. [37], Despite the name of the football club, Brechin is not an official city. "We're up against the best part-time team there is in Dumbarton, and you look at Falkirk and Dundee United - they are big clubs that have been in the Scottish Premiership. [3] The club moved to their Glebe Park home in 1919, a stadium which currently has a capacity of 4,123 (1,519 seated) and is famous for the hedge that runs alongside one side of the pitch.