Hibernian F.C.

Hibernian Football Club, also known as Hibs, is a professional football club based at Easter Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. They play in the Scottish Premiership. Their city rivals are Hearts. It is one of three SPFL clubs in the city, the others being their Edinburgh derby rivals Hearts and Edinburgh City. Hibernian was founded in 1875 by Irish immigrants, but support for the club is now based on geography rather than ethnicity or religion. The Irish heritage of Hibernian is still reflected, however, in its name, colours and badge.

Hibernian F.C.

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Full name	Hibernian Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Hibees The Cabbage
Founded	1875
Ground	Easter Road, Leith, Edinburgh (capacity: 20,421)
Chairman	Ron Gordon
Manager	Jack Ross
League	Scottish Premiership
2020/21	Scottish Premiership, 3rd
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In 1887 Hibernian defeated Preston North End in a match nicknamed the Association Football Championship of the World decider, because of the two teams’ achievements in their domestic cup trophies. Hibs enjoyed enormous success throughout the 1940s and 50s where they won the 1947/8, 1950/1 and 1951/2 League Competitions. Their not-so-secret weapon was the attacking formation known as ‘The Famous Five’ consisting of Bobby Johnstone, Willie Ormond, Lawrie Reilly, Gordon Smith and Eddie Turnbull.

Hibs became the first British team to enter European competition in 1955. They competed in the Champions Cup and gave a fantastic performance against the German club, Rot Weiss Essen, winning 4-1 and drawing 1-1 on the return match in Scotland.

Hibernian F.C. was in grave danger of being closed down at the beginning of the 1990s when Wallace Mercer of rivals, Hearts of Midlothian, decided he wanted just one main club in Edinburgh. However, the club was saved in 1991 by Sir Tom Farmer CBE.

Hibernian became the first team to be relegated via the SPFL playoffs in 2014. In 2016 they ended their 114 year wait for the Scottish Cup, winning a final against Rangers 3-2.

In 2019, Tom Farmer sold the club to Ron Gordon. Gordon died in 2023.

Squad

As of June 15 2008.

No. Position Player 2 DF Kevin McCann 4 DF Chris Hogg (vice-captain) 5 DF Rob Jones (captain) 6 MF Brian Kerr 7 MF Merouane Zemmama 8 FW Clayton Donaldson 9 FW Steven Fletcher 10 FW Abdessalam Benjelloun 11 MF Alan O'Brien 12 MF Filipe Morais 16 MF Lewis Stevenson 17 MF Sean Lynch 19 DF Thierry Gathuessi 20 MF John Rankin

No. Position Player 21 GK Andrew McNeil 22 MF Dean Shiels 23 MF Ross Chisholm 24 FW Colin Nish 25 DF Darren McCormack 26 MF Ian Murray 28 FW Ross Campbell 29 FW Damon Gray 31 GK Zbigniew Małkowski 33 DF Paul Hanlon 34 DF Martin Canning 41 GK David Grof 50 GK Yves Makabu Ma-Kalambay –– DF David van Zanten

Hibernian F.C. Media

• The Cowgate, where Hibs were formed in 1875.

• Picture depicting the Famous Five at Easter Road stadium.

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  The Scottish League Cup is paraded in March 2007.

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  Easter Road Stadium

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  Rob Jones scores a goal for Hibs against Hearts in 2006.

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  View of Easter Road with Leith in the distance