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Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.

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Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club are a Scottish association football team based in Inverness. They will play in the Scottish Premier League for the 2004-05 season.

The team was formed in 1994 by a merger of Caledonian F.C. and Inverness Thistle F.C., both members of the Highland League, to fill a vacancy in the Scottish Football League Third Division. Their near neightbours, Ross County, were elected to the League at the same time. Inverness have made a remarkable rise up the Scottish League, winning promotions in 1997 and 1999, and finally to the SPL in 2004.

They are most famous for their Scottish Cup victories over Celtic in 2000, when they won 3-1, and also in 2003, when they won 1-0. Inverness have also beaten other SPL teams such as Motherwell and Hearts and as a result have gained themselves a reputation as being a cup shocker. They have lived up to this tag reaching the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup in 2003 and 2004.


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