Clydebank FC Moving To Dublin, Ireland

Clydebank FC Moving To Dublin, Ireland.

I remember back in the nineteen nineties there was an idea for the then Scottish Football League side Clydebank FC to move to Dublin, Ireland. 

The idea was that Clydebank, could stay in the Scottish League but move to Dublin, Ireland. 

The idea was that Dublin is a massive city of over 1 million people, and that if the Dublin based side were playing in a full time Scottish League then they would become a big side. They would be playing big Scottish sides like Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, Motherwell and Dundee United.  

Clydebank is in Central Scotland. 

In the end Clydebank FC did not move to Ireland. And there are no Irish based sides in the Scottish Leagues. 

But I wonder how big a Dublin side in the Scottish League would have been.

I think they would have become a big side. One of the biggest 3 sides in the Scottish Leagues with Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers. 

I think that by now they would have won a few Scottish titles, cups, and qualified for Europe almost every season. Maybe they would have won a European trophy. 

In the end Clydebank were bought out and moved to Airdrie, Scotland. The club was renamed Airdrie United, but then changed the name again to Airdrieonians.