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Heart Of Midlothian

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Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Heart Of Midlothian
Phone:
+44 131 200 7265

Hours:
Sunday12pm - 4pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday12pm - 4pm


Heart of Midlothian Football Club, commonly known as Hearts, is a Scottish professional football club based in Gorgie in the west of Edinburgh. Hearts are the oldest football club in the Scottish capital, as they were formed in 1874 by a group of friends from the Heart of Midlothian Quadrille Assembly , whose name was influenced by Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. The modern club crest is based on the Heart of Midlothian mosaic on the city's Royal Mile and the team's colours are predominantly maroon and white.Hearts play at Tynecastle Park, where home matches have been played since 1886. After renovating the ground into an all-seater stadium following the findings of the Taylor Report in 1990, the stadium now has a capacity of just over 20,000 following the completion of a newly rebuilt main stand in 2017. Their current training facilities are based at the Oriam, Scotland's national performance centre for sport, where they also run their youth academy.Heart of Midlothian have won the Scottish league championship four times, most recently in 1959–60, when they also retained the Scottish League Cup to complete a League and League Cup double – the only club outside of the Old Firm to achieve such a feat. The club's most successful period was under former player, turned manager Tommy Walker from the early 1950s to mid 1960s. Between 1954 and 1962 they won two league titles, one Scottish Cup, and four Scottish League Cups, and also finished inside the league's top four positions for 11 consecutive seasons between 1949–50 and 1959–60. Jimmy Wardhaugh, Willie Bauld and Alfie Conn Sr., known affectionately as the Terrible Trio, were famed forwards at the start of this period with wing half linchpins Dave Mackay and John Cumming. Wardhaugh was part of another notable Hearts attacking trinity in the 1957–58 league winning side. Along with Jimmy Murray and Alex Young, they set the record for the number of goals scored in a Scottish league winning campaign . In doing so, they also became the only side to finish a season with a goal difference exceeding 100 . Hearts have also won the Scottish Cup eight times, most recently in 2012 after a 5–1 victory over Hibernian, their local rivals. All four of Hearts' Scottish League Cup triumphs came under Walker, most recently a 1–0 victory against Kilmarnock in 1962. Their most recent Scottish League Cup Final appearance was in 2013, where they lost 3–2 to St Mirren. In 1958, Heart of Midlothian became the third Scottish and fifth British team to compete in European competition at the time. The club reached the quarter-finals of the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, losing out to Bayern Munich 2–1 on aggregate.
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