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Brora Rangers: The Highland football team hoping to be the UK's most northerly professional club

Brora Rangers: The Highland football team hoping to be the UK's most northerly professional club

A part-time village football club is potentially one game away from joining Scotland's national professional leagues. Highland League champions Brora Rangers FC is in a play-off against Edinburgh City for a place in League Two. The teams drew 1-1 in the first leg in Brora and are now preparing for a final showdown in the capital on Saturday. "It would be amazing to get into the second division - this is making history for Brora," said club director Mary Stewart, who grew up on a street behind the team's Dudgeon Park ground. If Brora Rangers win the play-off, they would become the most northerly team in UK professional football. Brora, about 50 miles (80km) north of Inverness, is a community of about 1,200 people on the North Coast 500 tourist route. In the 1900s, Brora was the first place north of Inverness to have electricity, leading its residents to nickname their home Electric City. And it was the site of the UK's most northerly deep coal mine, before the last shafts closed in the 1970s. The village football team was founded in 1879 and joined the Highland League in 1962. The club has made Scottish footballing history in the past - including knocking Hearts out of the Scottish

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