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Ayr United Football Club are a football club play in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.
Formed in 1910 by the merger of Ayr Parkhouse and Ayr F.C., their nickname is The Honest Men, from a line in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter"
Season 2022/23
Lee Bullen - Head Coach
David White - Head of Youth
Davie Timmins - Goalkeeping Coach
Stevie McGuire - Physiotherapist
Thomas Donovan - Sports Science
Michael Moffat - Strength & Conditioning
Scottish Second Tier:
Winners (6): 1911–12, 1912–13, 1927–28, 1936–37, 1958–59, 1965–66 Runners Up (4): 1910–11, 1955–56, 1968–69, 2000–01
Scottish Third Tier:
Winners (3): 1987–88, 1996–97, 2017–18 Runners Up (3): 2008–09, 2010–11, 2015–16 Play-Off Winners (3): 2008–09, 2010–11, 2015–16
Scottish League Cup:
Runners Up (1): 2001-02
Scottish Challenge Cup:
Runners Up (2): 1990-91, 1991-92
Record home attendance
25,225 vs Rangers, 13 September 1969 in Scottish League Division One
Record attendance in a match involving Ayr United
51,158 vs Rangers, 4 April 1973, Scottish Cup semi-final, at Hampden Park
Lowest home attendance
106 vs Girvan, 1 May 1991 in the Ayrshire Cup
Lowest away attendance
192 vs Deveronvale, 28 November 2009, in the Scottish Cup
Record victory
11–1 vs Dumbarton, 13 August 1952
Record defeat
0–9 vs Rangers, 16 November 1929
0–9 vs Heart of Midlothian, 28 February 1931
0–9 vs Third Lanark, 4 December 1931
Record appearances
John Murphy (597 apps), between 1963 and 1978
Record goalscorer
Peter Price, (213 goals in 251 apps) between 1955 and 1962
Most Goals in a single season
Jimmy Smith, (66 goals in 38 apps) in the 1927–28 Season
Most International Appearances (While playing for Ayr)
James Nisbet for Scotland (3) vs Norway, Germany and The Netherlands in 1929
Youngest player
Mark Shankland, aged 15 years and 300 days (vs Brechin City, 7 May 2011)
Youngest goalscorer
Alan Forrest, aged 16 years and 321 days (vs Queens Park, 27 July 2013)