Football fans urged to get behind the Forfar Farmington phenomenon

Forfar’s female footballers are pinning their hopes on home support for one of the most important games in their history.

Forfar Farmington welcome Hearts to Station Park on Sunday needing a point to secure their place in next season’s eight-team Women’s Premier League and keep Angus among the big name elite of the female game in Scotland.

League restructuring will see the current 12-team top flight changed next season and Farmington go into the crucial clash as the country’s on-form side of late with a 6-1 thrashing of Inverness City last weekend making it eight wins in a row for the Forfar side.

In three meetings with Sunday’s rivals so far this season they have won two and lost one and club chairman Colin Brown, whose led efforts 35 years ago which spawned the growth of the girls’ game in the town, has said he hopes fans will really get behind the team.

As the video above shows, the team which has hundreds of girls and women signed up to its various age groups has become a major part of the community.

For more on the match build-up, see Saturday’s Courier or try our digital edition.