Orkney Dons – About Us

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:-

The meeting was chaired by Mr Jimmy Dick being the clubs founder.

A committee was formed –
Chairman – J Dick
Vice Chairman R Groundwater
Secretary – D Tullock
G Brass
J Baillie
M Harcus
N Chalmers
P Findlater
G Johnston

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, 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 the late 1980’s when the total was 527 Aberdeen F.C’s largest supporters club

Past Chairmen

Committee Members

Current committee:
Chairman – Clive Aitken
Vice Chairman – Justin Hay
Secretary – John Mowat
Treasurer – Paul Drever
Membership Secretary – Mark Groundwater

Trip Convener – Mark Groundwater & Assistant – Mervyn Ward
Website & Social Media Administrator – Justin Hay & Assistant – Mervyn Ward
150 Club – Clive Aitken

Albert Scollay

Mervyn Ward

Grieg Rorie

Derek Aiken

Colin Ratter

Eoin Miller

Erik Moar

Erlend Poke

Graham Mackay

Ian Scott

Michael Swanney

Rachael Muir

Robert Lennie

Ross Donaldson

Stevie Ross

Raymond Hourston

Martin Gillespie

Erik Firth