Bathgate Thistle Community Football Club was formed in the spring of 2013 by a group of existing Bathgate Football teams consisting of Junior side Bathgate Thistle FC, Amateurs, Youth and Boy sides who believe in a better methodology, backed by the Scottish Football Association, for the promotion, development and organisation of football within the town of Bathgate. The Club will strive to include kids, youths and adults of both sexes, all ages, all abilities from all backgrounds in our community programme. This will offer them the chance to learn, train, develop new skills and interests and grasp opportunities they might not otherwise have had.