Alloa Athletic F.C.

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Alloa Athletic Football Club is a Scottish association football semi-professional club based in the town of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. They compete in Scottish League One as a member of the Scottish Professional Football League. The club's nickname is 'The Wasps', referring to its home colours of black and gold hoops. Alloa Athletic has been based at Recreation Park in Alloa since 1895. According to the official club history, they were formed as Clackmannan County in 1878, then from 1879 were named Alloa Association Football Club, before settling on their current name in 1883. The club was elected to the second tier of the Scottish Football League in 1921–22, earning promotion to the top flight in its first season after winning the Second Division. Below the top two tiers, Alloa Athletic has finished runners-up in the third tier a record nine times without ever winning, the most recent coming in 2016–17, when they failed to gain promotion to the Championship via the play-offs. Alloa Athletic...

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