This weekend brings a momentous event for Troon Football Club – for the first time in our 80 year history, we take our place in the senior Scottish Cup for the very first time. We embark on a mammoth trip up north to Banff and Princess Royal Park, where Highland League Deveronvale await for our 1st Round match.

⚽️ Deveronvale versus Troon F.C. ⚽️
Saturday 3rd October 2026
Scottish Gas Men’s Scottish Cup Round 1
Princess Royal Park, Banff
Kick-off 3pm

Scottish Cup weekend is always a special weekend for everyone involved, but for us this one is different – it’s not just the Scottish Junior Cup we are playing in this season, it’s the “senior” Scottish Cup this weekend!

A taxing looking September unfortunately proved to be exactly that; we got off to the perfect start with two wins out of two and ten goals scored, not to mention a walkover in the Scottish Junior Cup to progress to the next round. But three defeats against Johnstone Burgh, Kilwinning Rangers and a sobering defeat at Cumnock certainly checked the emotions. The supporters will be looking for October to be better.

Saturday sees us enter unchartered waters for us, but it’s a new challenge that we are all looking forward to. Deveronvale are a historic and proud club with a superb looking stadium, so all in all it’s a weekend we are all relishing. A regular fixture in the Highland League, it’ll be a difficult ask but we’re sure Jimmy & the boys will be well prepared. The supporters’ bus is full for the trip, but we hear quite a few supporters making their own way up & making a weekend of it, so we look forward to a vocal effort from the Seagulls in Banff.

Deveronvale have made a mixed start to the 2026-27 Breedon Highland League campaign. After four consecutive defeats to open the season, the Banffers steadied themselves with a 3-0 victory over Rothes, followed by draws with Forres Mechanics and Nairn County. A notable 3-1 home win over Fraserburgh was another highlight, while victories away to Lossiemouth and a 2-2 draw with Clachnacuddin have continued their improvement. After 12 matches, ‘Vale sit 14th in the 18 team league with 12 points.

N.B. Should the match be a draw after 90 minutes, the match will go to extra-time and then, if necessary, will go to penalties. A winner will be decided on the day. The 2nd round draw will be carried out on Sunday or Monday following the 1st round matches.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of Saturday’s match…

Nathan Baird sat out the last two matches after picking up an ankle knock at Newton Stewart, and he will sit out this weekend as well as he continues work on his recovery. Calum Gow is suspended, as he was sent-off in his last Scottish Cup match for Pollok against Darvel, while Callan Veitch is away on holiday. New signing Scott Lewis is cup-tied, having featured in this season’s competition already with Drumchapel United.

Lewis Allan has been working hard with Darrell to get back to fitness after suffering a knock on his knee, but he has been back in training this week and he shouldn’t be missing too much longer. Kieran Logan has joined Maybole on a permanent transfer.

Scottish Cup week! That’s a fantastic thing for us to be able to say. Memories of a night very early in my reign in 2011 in the old ADL days when we faced Muirkirk at Portland in front of about two men and a dog, who witnessed possibly the worst draw football has ever seen. Our fantastic club has come an awful long way since that miserable midweek match, and this is certainly the highlight. Let’s go and make memories.

A lot of hard work has gone into this particular moment where we are ready to take our place in the Scottish Gas Men’s Scottish Cup for the very first time. Hard work from the Chairman Jim and our Club Secretary Richard off the field to confirm our SFA Club Licence award, and hard work from our coaching team and our players on the field last season to ensure we secured our place in the Lowland League and tier 5 of Scottish football. Not an achievement that should be taken lightly, and one that brings us to this weekend and our first ever Scottish Cup match in our 80 year history.

But, we are not here just to be grateful for taking part. We have to prepare ourselves properly, focus on the match and have the resolve to impose ourselves on the match itself and endeavour to take something out of it. We may have waited 80 years to play our first match, but maybe I’m getting greedy – I want more.

Deveronvale are a proper side, we are fortunate the Chairman was able to get somebody to watch them in recent matches and so we hope that insight can give us an opportunity for this weekend’s match. They have some excellent players and a fair few for us to beware of this weekend, we need to be at our best to give us a chance to progress to the next round.

‘MON THE TROON!!

Jimmy Kirkwood (Team Manager)

Full Name	Deveronvale Football Club
Nickname(s)	The ‘Vale
Founded	1938
Ground	Princess Royal Park, Banff
Capacity	2,651 (360 seated)
President	Aaron Lorimer
Manager	Garry Wood
Captain	Jayden Goldie
2025-26	Highland League, 14th from 18

⚽️️ DEM YUNUS ⚽️

⚽️️ CELMIRO MUSSUNDA ⚽️

26th Sep	Deveronvale	4-5	Inverurie Loco Works	Highland League
19th Sep	Deveronvale	2-2	Clachnacuddin	Highland League
16th Sep	Lossiemouth	0-2	Deveronvale	Highland League
12th Sep	Keith	1-0	Deveronvale	Highland League
5th Sep	Deveronvale	3-1	Fraserburgh	Highland League

26th Sep	Troon F.C.	2-3	Kilwinning Rangers	Lowland League (West)
23rd Sep	Cumnock Juniors	4-0	Troon F.C.	Lowland League (West)
16th Sep	Troon F.C.	1-2	Johnstone Burgh	Lowland League (West)
12th Sep	Newton Stewart	1-5	Troon F.C.	Lowland League (West)
5th Sep	Saltire City	2-5	Troon F.C.	South Challenge Cup R2

If you can’t make it along to the game, you can keep up to date with all the latest info via the club’s social media channels:

Deveronvale endured a mixed 2025-26 campaign, ultimately finishing 14th in the Breedon Highland League with 37 points. The Banff side made a bright start, including eye-catching victories over Wick Academy, Buckie Thistle and Rothes, the latter a 5-2 success in September. However, consistency proved elusive, particularly after Christmas, and 19 league defeats left the ‘Vale side in the lower reaches of the table.

The Scottish Gas Scottish Cup provided one of the season’s highlights. Deveronvale travelled to Darvel in the first round and produced an impressive 3-1 victory to progress to the second round. Their run ended at home to League Two opponents Elgin City, who edged a tight contest 2-1 despite the Vale’s determined effort.

In the Highland League Cup, Deveronvale were eliminated in the first round, losing 4-1 away to Banks O’ Dee. There was greater success in the Aberdeenshire Shield, where a 4-3 penalty-shootout victory over Buckie Thistle sent them into the semi-finals, before Aberdeen B won 3-1 at Princess Royal Park.

Jack Mitchell remained a standout performer, finishing as the club’s leading league scorer with 11 goals. He capped the season with a superb hat-trick in a 3-1 victory at Inverurie Loco Works.

Last year was a record breaking season for Troon, by any metric; West of Scotland Cup winners, on that amazing day in May, Promotion to tier 5 of Scottish football for the first time in our history, led the Division for a long time before securing a club record highest league finish after guaranteeing a top 3 finish in the WOSFL Premier Division and we achieved our Scottish FA Licence, which will see us take part in the Scottish Gas Scottish Cup for the first time ever this season.

(before this week’s matches)

	REFEREE:
	Thomas Denholm
Assistant Referee 1:		Assistant Referee 2:
Jordan Shields		Andy Ewen

Referee Observer:

To be confirmed

For travelling supporters, our media team have put together a number of new “Supporter’s Travel Guides” for directions and helpful tips to an away day:

Supporter’s Travel Guide – Deveronvale (Princess Royal Park)

You can find out all about the match itself by visiting the match centre both before and after the game, with the team line-ups, scorers & bookings on the specific match page for the fixture.

To visit the match centre, CLICK HERE.

⚽️ Troon F.C. versus West Park United ⚽️
Saturday 10th October 2026
South Region Challenge Cup Round 3
Portland Park, Troon
Kick-off 3pm