Heriot-Watt University F.C.
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| Full name | Heriot-Watt University Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Watt | |
| Founded | 1945 | |
| Ground | Heriot-Watt Sports Academy, Riccarton, Edinburgh | |
| Capacity | 1,800 | |
| Coach | Ian Little | |
| League | East of Scotland Football League | |
| 2015–16 | East of Scotland Football League, 10th | |
| Website | Club home page | |
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Heriot-Watt University Football Club is a football club whose First Team plays in the East of Scotland Football League. The Club was founded around 1945 as Heriot-Watt College F.C. After Heriot-Watt became a university and moved most of its activity to its new campus at Riccarton, to the west of Edinburgh (a move which was substantially completed by 1971), the Club, now named Heriot-Watt University F.C., applied to join the East of Scotland Football Association and League. It played in the League for the first time in season 1971–72 and has continued in membership since that time. Home matches are played on the University campus at Riccarton.
After relegation at the end of the previous season, Heriot-Watt University finished second in the First (lower) Division of the East of Scotland League in 2014–15, thereby earning a promotion place. However, for season 2015–16, the Board of the East of Scotland League has decided that the League should operate as a single structure and has ended the divisional format which had operated since 1987–88. Heriot-Watt University will be one of 16 teams participating in the East of Scotland League during 2015–16.
In weekend competition, the Club also enters a team into the East of Scotland Under-20 League; and another into Lothian and Edinburgh Amateur F. A . (LEAFA) competition.
A large part of the Club's purpose is to provide the opportunity for football training and playing to as great a number of students as possible, so seven men's teams and one women's team are entered into the competitions operated by British Universities and Colleges Sport[1] (BUCS) and Scottish Student Sport (SSS),[2] with the matches being played on Wednesday afternoons.
Heriot-Watt University F.C. also participates in a Community Club in partnership with a youth football club based in its locality, Currie Star F.C.