Aberdeen Supporters Club (Orkney Branch) - Est. 1981 - 2024
The Aberdeen Football Supporters Club (Orkney Branch) was formed after the appearance of the following advert in The Orcadian on January 15th 1981, which reads as follows:-
A public meeting will be held in the games room, community centre, Kirkwall at 6.30 pm Monday 19th January, business to form an Orkney Branch of the Aberdeen F.C Supporters Club.
The meeting was chaired by Mr Jimmy Dick being the clubs founder.
A committee was formed –
A constitution was approved, the objective of the club was to:-
(a) Be Non political
(b) To foster reunion and good fellowship among all football supporters
(c) To promote good comradeship among all football supporters
(d) To arrange and hold such social functions as may be considered best calculated to improve the life and spirit of the club, any profit resulting there from to be carried to funds of the club, and any loss incurred thereon to be borne by these funds.
The club’s greatest achievement was the trip to Gothenburg for the European Cup Winners Cup final in 1983 when the Dons bet the mighty Real Madrid, the club had chartered an aircraft, organised by Brian Kemp, the local British Airways manager,and Russell Groundwater direct from Kirkwall to Gothenburg, 48 supporters made the trip at £130 per head. They drank the plane dry on the way over, danced in the rain as Aberdeen lifted the cup and arrived back in Kirkwall at 2.30 am, the first Dons supporters in the country to make it back home. The Club’s largest membership was in 2019 when the total was 567 Aberdeen F.C’s largest supporters club beating our previous best 527 in late 80s
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Jim Dick | 1981-85 |
| Russell Groundwater | 1985-89 |
| Pat Findlater | 1989-90 |
| Albert Scollay | 1990-91 |
| Marcus Shearer | 1991-94 |
| Jim Baillie | 1994-96 |
| Mike Parkins | 1996-99 |
| Ian Scott | 1999-2002 |
| Gary Farquhar | 2002-2004 |
| Craig Spence | 2004-2007 |
| Derek Aiken | 2007-2009 |
| Mark Groundwater | 2009-2012 |
| Greig Rorie | 2012-2015 |
| Mervyn Ward | 2015-2018 |
| Clive Aitken | 2018 – 2022 |
| Mark Groundwater | 2022-present |
Current committee:
Chairman – Mark Groundwater
Vice Chairman – Erik Firth
Secretary – Clive Aitken
Treasurer – Clive Seatter
Membership Secretary – Clive Seatter
Trip Convener – Mark Groundwater
Website & Social Media Administrator – Justin Hay & Assistant Mervyn Ward