Albatross F.C.
Albatross Football Club was a 19th-century football club from the east end of Glasgow.
History
The club was founded in 1876. By its second season, it had 37 members, which made it one of the smaller senior clubs in Glasgow. The club may have had an association with the Ferguson, Shaw & Sons company of oil and grease refiners, as one of the club's match secretaries accepted correspondence at the firm's Stockwell Street premises.The club was one of 36 admitted to the Scottish Football Association at the start of the 1877–78 season, which meant the club could enter the 1877–78 Scottish Cup. In the first round, Albatross lost 6–0 at Govan.
Albatross entered for the next two seasons, but lost in the first round both times; 4–2 at Petershill in 1878–79 and 4–0 at the much larger Alexandra Athletic in 1879–80.
The club only played 9 matches in the 1878–79 season, with 3 wins, draws, and losses, and only 11 goals scored in those matches. Still only boasting 37 members, the club was the third smallest senior club in the city, and bigger only than Rosslyn and Union. It did not re-emerge for the 1880–81 season.