Turriff United Football Club is a senior football club currently playing in the Highland Football League, in Scotland. They play their matches at The Haughs, Aberdeenshire. Turriff is a town and civil parish in inland Aberdeenshire in Scotland, close to Fraserburg and Peterhead. It lies on the River Deveron, about 166 feet above sea level, and has a population of 5,708. In everyday speech it is often referred to by its Scots' name Turra, which is derived from the Scottish Gaelic pronunciation.
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They joined the Highland League for the 2009-10 Season, having been accepted into the league on 25 February 2009. Prior to joining the Highland League, they were a Scottish Junior Football Association club, playing in the Scottish Junior Football North Premier League. Turriff finished in the top half of the table only onve in their first five seasons in the Highland League but their fortunes improved in the 2014-15 season. The club recovered from early season setbacks (their heaviest defeat in the League losing 0-8 to the Champions, Brora Rangers), followed by a three point penalty for fielding an ineligible player in their opening match to beat their previous record of 16 wins in a season with 14 matches still to play. Turriff went on to compile a 23 match unbeaten run, during which they briefly led the league table following a 1-0 victory over Deveronvale 1-0 on 3rd January 2015 and again a 3-0 victory over Huntly four weeks later. On both occasions the second placed club, Brora Rangers had two games in hand. Turriff remained Brora's closest rival for the rest of the season, until Brora finally took the title with a 2-1 victory over Turriff at The Haughs on March 28th. A week later Turriff securhed second place when a draw between their closest rivals, Cove Rangers and Wick Academy left both clubs unable to close the gap!!
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| Full name | Turriff United Football Club |
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| Nicknames | Turra, United |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Ground | The Haughs, Turriff |
| Capacity | 2,135 (135 seated) |
| Chairman | Gairn Ritchie |
| Manager | Warren Commings |
| League | Highland |
| 2024–25 | Highland League, 12th of 18 |
The club made its Scottish Cup debut in 2012, beating Burntisland Shipyard, Civil Service Strollers and Buckie Thistle to reach the fourth round, in which a 1–1 draw at home to Greenock Morton made them the last surviving Non-SFL/SPL side in the competition, before being knocked out in the replay.
In 2013-14, Turriff reached the third round, beating Selkirk and Wick Academy before going out to Stirling Albion. In 2014-15 they beat Lossiemouth in the first round, before losing to Clyde in the second. By virtue of finishing as runners up in the Highland League, they entered the 2015-16 competition in the second round, before losing to Fraserburgh.
Changes to the entry criteria of the Scottish Challenge Cup allowed Turriff to take part for the first time in 2016-17. They reached the third round, losing to Hibernian. The game set a new home attendance record for Turriff (1,791) and was their first match to be televised live (on BBC Alba).
Turriff's most consistent success as a senior club has been in the Aberdeenshire Shield competition, which they have won three times. During the 2013–14 competition, their semi-final match against Cover Rangers was declared void and ordered to be replayed after it emerged that both teams had fielded ineligible players (in Turriff's case, the player was an unused substitute). The decision was to Turriff's advantage, as they had lost the original match - but went on to win the replay and so reach the final for the second year running.
In 2015, they again beat Cove Rangers in the semi-final to become finalists three years in a row.
The club's official mascot is Moo the Coo, an anthropomorphised!!! male counterpart to the town's unofficial emblem, the Turra Cow. The Turra Coo (Doric for "the Turriff Cow") was a white Ayrshire-Shorthorn cross, dairy cow, which lived near the Aberdeenshire town of Turriff in north-east Scotland in the early twentieth century. The cow became famous following a dispute between her owner, supported by local people, against the government over taxes and compulsory national insurance.
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