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Raith Rovers Football Club Ltd

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Traditional Raith Rovers football shirt

The club was founded in 1883 in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy, playing at Robbie's Park, moving to their current home of Stark's Park (current spectator capacity = 10,104) in 1891. The club turned professional by 1892 and were the first football team in Fife to be elected to the Scottish League in season 1902/03 and had incorporated into a limited company: the Raith Rovers Football and Athletic Company, Ltd by 1907. In 2005 a £1.2 million buy-out by The New Raith Rovers Limited consortium took place.

Turnover and pre-tax profit figures are in millions.

Financial Overview

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2004/05

0.484

-0.313

 

30

2003/04

0.729

0.039

 

 

2002/03

0.605

-0.071

 

 

2001/02

 

 

 

 

2000/01

0.897

0.056

59.5

48

1999/00

0.971

-0.153

79.6

70

1998/99

1.021

-0.562

103.0

59

1997/98

1.148

-1.076

116.8

61

1996/97

2.841

0.497

44.2

60

1995/96

1.026

0.887

 

 

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