Greenock Morton Football Club come an Association football club, whose first team presently plays in the Bell's Scottish Football League Second Division. A club was founded inside 1874, making it among the virtually all venerable of senior Scottish clubs.

Greenock Morton Football Club come popularly referred to as Morton F.C. - a tradition which predates the club's renaming inside 1994 to celebrate the links by having its personal town of Greenock. the club has a traditional local competition with St. Mirren, from Paisley.

A team's at home strip is of archaic project; a blue & white hooped shirt, & shorts sustaining the equivalent colours. Short-transitory however distinctive designs develop been utilized across a years, including sky blue & whiten stripes in the style of the Argentine national team and even the blue Morton tartan. A away strip tends to deviate good deal other; for the 2003/04 year it was an totally yellow outfit, ever-changing within 2004/05 to tons white. A sponsor's logotype that graces a strip is that of Hundreds to thousands, a Scottish confect by the club president's confectionery concern, Golden Casket Ltd.

Their sports stadium is Cappielow Park within Greenock. Cappielow's etymology is allegedly of Scandinavian origin, although details of this are unelaborated at the best. It has been residence to a club since the early a share of the 20th century. Refurbishment has recently been completed, & presently a capacity is in 11,000, by using 5,741 one existence seated. A metropolitan area behind a american goal is referred to as a Wee Dublin prevent, which contains non-backed bench seating, converted from either a old terracing that another time stood there. a independent have contains thin plastic load seating to replenish a old wooden benches that were a fixture of the ground until the late 1990s. A "Cowshed" lies north of a pitch; at one time the fully terraced arena for each residence & away supporters (complete using segregation fence down the middle), these are okay, the domain of at home supporters lone, sustaining great deal of the frontal terracing flushed, by using thin plastic pail seats occupying its place. Behind a eastern goal is the unimaginatively known as "Sinclair Street" prevent, by having exposed terracing.

the club hit a terrible period of fiscal distress within 2001. This culminated in a team existence relegated from either the First Division at the prevent of the 2000-01 season after the Sise-month stay. A club's fiscal worries continued to affect its progress in-a-field, when a team struggled to adapt to life in the Second Division. The Four-0 kill at Queen of the South on April 27, 2002 confirmed back-to-back relegations for Morton.

Inside year 2002-03, the team discovered themselves swimming in the Third Division for the first instance ever. In a period of a year, the club's fiscal year bit by bit eased, & a team observed newly found profits at this level. The year-long challenge for promotion culminated inside the One-0 triumph on top Peterhead securing the Third Division championship at the number one instance of request.

In the 2003-04 season, chairman Douglas Rae appointed John "Cowboy" McCormack, antecedently manager of Queen's Park[http://www.queensparkfc.co.uk]. McCormack oversaw a spirited beginside to a season, sole for the team to fall away when the turn of the year, & finish in Quaternary place; easily outside the promotion site. Jim McInally wwhen announced as his successor, & hopes remain high among Morton fans that he may restore a team to the higher echelons of Scottish football.

Notable players of the past include Andy Ritchie, Jimmy Cowan, David Brcic (former goalkeeper for the Future York Cosmos), & Joe Jordan.