Shawfield was founded in 1918 and disbanded in 1960. Their home ground was
Rosebery Park, located in the
Oatlands area of
Glasgow – this is close to, but not within, the
Shawfield district of the town of
Rutherglen which includes
Shawfield Stadium. The club's first season in the
Glasgow Junior League was in 1921–22. They remained a mid-table finishing side through five seasons in that league and four in its successor competition, the
Scottish Intermediate League. In 1931–32, the first season of the next reorganisation — the
Central Junior League — Shawfield won the championship, beating
Yoker Athletic in the deciding match. In 1937, they were overall runners-up to
Arthurlie, but in 1944 they finished dead last, only improving by one place the following year. They were bottom again in 1954, but generally were a middle-ranking club up to their last season, 1959–60. In the knockout competitions, Shawfield lost the 1939
Scottish Junior Cup final by 2–1 to neighbours
Rutherglen Glencairn (whose ground was in Shawfield itself) in the final at
Celtic Park, watched by 22,363 although they gained some consolation that year by winning the
West of Scotland Cup in a 2–0 victory over
Clydebank Juniors. They got their hands on the biggest prize of the Junior grade in 1947, defeating
Bo'ness United in the Scottish Cup Final at
Hampden Park, The first match before a crowd of 56,410 finished 1–1; the replay drew 26,521 with Shawfield prevailing 2–1. Bo’ness would go on to lift the trophy the following year. One of Shawfield's players, Tommy Farrell, played in both the 1939 and 1947 finals either side of
World War II. – for residents of the areas surrounding Rosebery Park like Oatlands,
Hutchesontown,
Gorbals and
Polmadie this typically meant
Castlemilk and
Pollok, although no new Junior teams were established in these vast
schemes (
Pollok F.C. are not based in the residential district of that name). Shawfield were only the first Junior club in that part of the city to fold, followed by
Bridgeton Waverley (1962),
Parkhead (1963),
Strathclyde (1965) and Dennistoun Waverley (1968). Clyde also suffered from a diminishing fanbase and would leave the area in the 1980s. ==Former players==