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Aberdeen

Full Name: Aberdeen Football Club
City: Aberdeen
Founded: 1903
Stadium: Pittodrie Stadium (22,199)
Colors: Red, White
Nicknames: The Dons, Red Army
Rivals: Rangers

Aberdeen Football Club was created on April 14, 1903 by the merger of an earlier Aberdeen FC, Victoria United and Orion. Since reaching the top division in 1905-06, Aberdeen have never been relegated - the only club besides Celtic and Rangers to have this honor. They were asked to withdraw for two seasons from 1917-19 due to war-related travel restrictions.

The heyday of Aberdeen were undoubtedly the Alex Ferguson-led days of the late 70s and early 80s when the Dons won three of their four league titles, a handful of cup titles and most impressively the European Cup Winners' Cup.

The Dons nickname may be a reference to the Don river which flows into the North Sea in Aberdeen or a pun on the local pronunciation of "done" which sounds like "deen".

Aberdeen FC Ground:

The ground of Aberdeen FC is the Pittodrie Stadium, located on Aberdeen's Pittodrie Street and situated just 500m from the North Sea. It was opened in 1899 under the name Pittodrie Park and has been Aberdeen FC's ground since 1903. After significant improvements were made in 1968 the name changed to Pittodrie Stadium

Pittodrie Stadium is the fourth-largest football ground in Scotland, after Celtic Park, Hampden Park and Ibrox Stadium. The Aberdeen FC ground has been at the forefront of a number of innovations in British football grounds. It was the first stadium to incorporate a dugout for managers and substitutes (at the request of then manager Donald Coleman, so that he could see the players' footwork better. In 1979 Pittodrie became only the second all-seater stadium in the UK and the following year became the first stadium with fully-covered seats.

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Aberdeen FC Badges:

The current Aberdeen FC badge (in use since 2006) incorporates the official team name of Aberdeen Football Club encircling the acronym AFC (with the A looking much the side-view of a football goal), a football and the club's foundation date of 1903.

The colors of the Aberdeen FC badge are the the red and white of Aberdeen FC. The color red was chosen to mirror that of the official red and silver crest of the city of Aberdeen. Red and white was adopted in the late 1930s and replaced their earlier black and yellow club colors.

The badge also features 2 red stars at its top, signifying the two European titles Aberdeen FC won in the 1980s.

Previous Aberdeen FC Badges:

Aberdeen FC Trophies:

First-Tier League Titles:

Scottish League First Division (1955)
Scottish League Premier Division (1980, 84, 85)

Cup Titles:

Scottish Cup (1947, 70, 82, 83, 84, 86, 90)
Scottish League Cup (1956, 77, 86, 90, 96)

International Titles:

European Cup Winner's Cup (1983)
European Super Cup (1983)

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