Forth Wanderers F.C.

Not to be confused with Forth Wanderers (band).

Forth Wanderers Football Club are a Scottish football club based in the village of Forth, South Lanarkshire. Formed in 1904 they compete in the West of Scotland League Second Division and play in red strips with a white trim with a second strip of all black.

Forth Wanderers

Full name	Forth Wanderers Football Club
Nickname(s)	Wanderers
Founded	1904
Ground	Kingshill Park, Forth
Manager	Gerry Ward
League	West of Scotland League Second Division
2024–25	West of Scotland League Second Division, 12th of 16
Home colours

History

Since 1934 they have played at Kingshill Park in the village,^[1] however they have had to share with Carluke Rovers for a spell and play on a public park in Carnwath when this ground proved unusable. The team's first games were played at Pleasure Park before the Wanderers moved to Hie Dyke in 1929. It was 5 years later until they moved to what is their current home, Kingshill Park in 1934.

Forth have supplied two Scottish international goalkeepers in George Wood and Rab Douglas.^[2] Rangers legend Willie Waddell came from the village and starred for the team in his pre-Ibrox days.^[3]

Wanderers reached the semi-finals of the Scottish Junior Cup in 1981 and their home quarter-final tie versus East Kilbride Thistle attracted a record crowd of 2,324.^[4]

The team is managed by Gerry Ward.

Honours

• Lanarkshire League winners: 1965–66
• Central League B Division winners: 1979–80
• Lanarkshire Junior Cup: 1959–60
• Lanarkshire Hozier Cup: 1913–14
• Central League Cup: 1984–85
• Scottish Junior Cup semi-finalists 1980–81
• Strathclyde Demolition Cup Runners-up: 2024-25

Notable players

Forth Wanderers Band

In a Reddit AMA in 2025, the indie band of the same name 'Forth Wanderers' admitted they decided on their name due to a "random wikipedia article generator" that spat them out to this very webpage, proving fan theories surrounding the name to be correctly associated with "the wanderers in forth, scotland". https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/1mhg16o/we_are_forth_wanderers_ask_us_anything/

The USA band, originating in Montclair, NJ had a successful run from 2013 to 2018, before going on a 7 year long hiatus. The band returned to form, surprising fans with a new Bandcamp single titled: 'To Know Me/To Love Me' in 2025, followed by the release of a new album: 'The Longer This Goes On' on the 18th of July, 2025.