Morton FC are a football club, whose first team currently plays in the Bell's Scottish Football League Second Division. The club was founded in 1874, making it among the most venerable of senior Scottish clubs.
Morton FC are now properly known as Greenock Morton Football Club, following a successful movement in 1994 to rename the team in light of its links with its home town of Greenock.
The team's home strip is of archaic design; a blue and white hooped shirt, white shorts and white and/or blue shorts. Short-lived yet distinctive (and occasionally downright ugly) designs have been used over the years, including sky blue and white stripes and even a blue Morton tartan. The away strip tends to vary much more; this year it is an all yellow outfit. The sponsor's logo that graces the strip is that of Millions, a Scottish candy produced by the club chairman's confectionery concern, Golden Casket Ltd.
Their stadium is Cappielow Park in Greenock. Cappielow's etymology is allegedly of Scandinavian origin, although details of this are sketchy at best. It hass been home to the club since the early part of this century. Refurbishment is still underway, but as it stands the capacity is close to 10,000, with 5,741 of these being seated. The area behind the western goal is known as the Wee Dublin end, which contains non-backed bench seating, converted from the old terracing that once stood there. The main stand contains plastic bucket seating to replace the old wooden benches that were a fixture of the ground until the late 1990s. The "Cowshed" lies to the North of the pitch; formerly a fully terraced arena for both home and away supporters (complete with segregation fence down the middle), it is now the domain of home supporters only, with much of the frontal terracing removed, with plastic bucket seats occupying its place. Behind the eastern goal is the imaginatively named "Sinclair Street" end, with uncovered terracing.
Famous players of the past include Andy Ritchie and Jimmy Cowan.
