Lowland League West
Wednesday 23rd September 2026
Kick Off 19.45 On Time!
Renfrew 3 Beith Juniors 0, attendance 209
20’ 1-0
35’ 2-0
85’ 3-0
@ New Western Park
1 Argyll Avenue
Renfrew
PA4 9EF
£12 Admission
No Programme.
Having visited my penultimate ground in this league last night, tonight would see completion of the Lowland League and leave Highland League newcomers Invergordon as the only ground not visited in the top five levels of the Scottish football pyramid. I’d visited Renfrew for a home game previously, back in 2004, when they beat Arthurlie 5-1 in a S.J.F.A. West Region League Cup group match. They were playing at their original Western Park ground then, which was about half a mile nearer the town centre than where they play now. They left that ground in 2015 and moved into their new home in the August of the same year. It’s certainly lacking the character of their old place, but is a better base for them going forward. It’s a 3G pitch, with spectator access limited to most of one side, behind one goal end and along to the edge of the 18 yard box on the dugouts side of the pitch. Changing rooms/tea bar are behind the entrance end goal and the only cover here is by way of a drop in section of six steps at the halfway line, but it’s set back from the pitch and one of the floodlight pylons obstructs your view. Despite having arrived only about fifteen minutes before kick off, there were still spaces in the car park, about fifty yards from the entrance.
The match was 15th versus 13th (out of 17), with Renfrew only outside the bottom two relegation spots courtesy of them having a better goal difference than second bottom Newton Stewart. Renfrew went ahead after twenty minutes, when a 25 yarder from Fife was hit left footed into the top right hand corner. They doubled their lead ten minutes before halftime, when a corner from the right was met with a glancing header from Healey at the near post, sending it low into the net. Beith almost pulled one back right on halftime, but a header from a corner was well saved by the Renfrew ‘keeper down near the far post. Renfrew finally added a third goal five minutes from the end, when a ball played through from the edge of the box was finished with a low shot into the far corner by substitute Argyll McCoist, son of Scotland and Rangers legend Ally.
The journey back south was done the following day. SatNav came up trumps, diverting off the M6 at the last minute, leaving at J39 and going cross country down to J38. Rejoining the motorway, the accident causing the diversion was visible just north of the exit slip road. The motorway had been closed in both directions and was still shut five hours later on arrival home!
