Airdrieonians F.C.
| Full name | Airdrieonians Football Club | |||
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| Nickname | The Diamonds | |||
| Founded | 2002 (as Airdrie United FC) | |||
| Ground | Excelsior Stadium, Airdrie | |||
| Capacity | 10,101 | |||
| Chairman | Paul Hetherington | |||
| Head coach | Aaron Taylor-Sinclair | |||
| League | Scottish Championship | |||
| 2024–25 | Scottish Championship, 9th of 10 | |||
| Website | www | |||
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Airdrieonians Football Club, commonly known as Airdrie, is a Scottish professional football team in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, who compete in the Scottish Championship as members of the Scottish Professional Football League. They were formed in 2002 as Airdrie United Football Club following the folding of the original Airdrieonians, before returning to its traditional name on 1 June 2013.
The club have won three trophies in their short history – the Scottish Second Division in 2003–04 and the Challenge Cup in 2008–09 and 2023–24. Once described as "the luckiest team in the Scottish League", the club have benefited in league division placements due to other club's misfortunes on four occasions (2008, 2009, 2012 and 2025). However the club have lost six Scottish league play-off finals (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2021 and 2022), two semi-finals (2010 and 2017) and one quarter-final (2024) in total, eventually offset by two Championship play-off final victories, in 2023 against Hamilton Academical and 2025 against Cove Rangers.