Airdrieonians F.C. (1878)

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Airdrieonians

Full name	Airdrieonians Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Diamonds The Waysiders
Founded	1878 as Excelsior F.C.
Dissolved	2002
Ground	Excelsior Stadium Airdrie, Lanarkshire
Capacity	10,171
League	Scottish First Division
2001–02	Scottish First Division, 2nd
Home colours Away colours

Airdrieonians Football Club, more commonly known as Airdrie, was a Scottish professional football team from the town of Airdrie, in the Monklands area of Lanarkshire.

The club became defunct at the end of the Scottish Football League 2001–02 season, despite the team finishing as runners-up in the SFL First Division to Partick Thistle and therefore only narrowly missing out on promotion to the Scottish Premier League.

During their 124-year existence the "Diamonds", as they were nicknamed, won the old Scottish Division Two three times, the Spring Cup once and the Scottish Challenge Cup on three occasions. The club also competed in four separate Scottish Cup finals; winning the competition in 1924.

Airdrieonians were the first club in the Scottish League to fold since 1967, when Third Lanark went bankrupt.