Dalziel Rovers F.C. was a Scottish Junior Football Association club from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, which won the Scottish Junior Cup in 1898.
The earliest record of the club is from the 1887âÂÂ88 season.
The club had an inconspicuous first few years, and even in 1891 merged with three other clubs under the Rovers name. In the 1897âÂÂ98 season, the Rovers did not suffer a single defeat, the season culminating with the Rovers beating Parkhead 2âÂÂ1 in the Junior Cup final, in front of 7,000 spectators at Meadowside. The club was favoured to retain the trophy, but, in "one of the greatest surprises of the football season", lost to the Westmarch XI at Helenslee Park, conceding the only goal of the game in the 84th minute, having dominated the game.
The triumph was in a run of three successive wins in the Lanarkshire Junior Cup, from 1896âÂÂ97 to 1898âÂÂ99, a competition the club won for the last time in 1906âÂÂ07. The club also took the Lanarkshire Junior Football League in 1897âÂÂ98 and 1898âÂÂ99.
The club's success however proved its downfall, with many players leaving for senior football after the 1898âÂÂ99 season, and a ground move also took attention away from replenishing the squad. After a poor 1910âÂÂ11 season, in which the club finished bottom of the Lanarkshire Junior League, the club disbanded.
The earliest record of the club's colours is of black and gold shirts. By 1896 the colours were black and red, although the old shirts seem to have been retained as a change kit.
The club originally played at Airbles Street, moving to Ladywell Park on Orchard Road in November 1890. Before the 1897âÂÂ98 season the club moved to a new ground, called Factory Park, back on Airbles Street, and in September 1899 moved once more, to Meadow Park.