A more professional approach was ushered in with the appointment of former Scotland defender Craig Levein, who had begun his playing career with Cowdenbeath, as manager in 1997.

The following former Cowdenbeath players are all members of the club's Hall of Fame or recent players who are still playing at a higher level in Scotland ( as well as some notable loan players ).

Other Lochore players who have stepped up include Tommy Callaghan with Celtic ; Cammy Fraser, Willie Gibson, Arthur Mann, Peter Oliver and Willie Benvie at Hearts ; Alec Edwards with Dunfermline and Hibernian ; Ian Campbell with Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline and Brechin ; Jimmy Logie with Arsenal ; Chris Anderson at Blackburn Rovers ; Garry Patterson with Dundee.

* Joe Dodds, a left-sided defender who played for Celtic, Cowdenbeath, Queen of the South and the Scotland national team

They are William L. Clarke, who represents Ballingry and Lochore, and Alexander Maxwell, who represents Cowdenbeath Central.

The team's 2006 cup run was halted by Fife team Cowdenbeath who defeated the University 5 – 1 at Central Park on 9 December 2006.

Cowdenbeath Football Club are a professional Scottish football team based in the town of Cowdenbeath, Fife.

Whilst for the main part Cowdenbeath is fairly level, there are significant portions of the town which have succumbed to subsidence as a result of the network of mineshafts and tunnels underlying the town.

Notably, there are photographs of Cowdenbeath High Street published in Stenlake Publications which depict Cowdenbeath High Street circa 1900, and which shows a flat High Street in which it is possible to view its entire length from north to south under the overarching railway bridge.

The south and eastern boundaries of Cowdenbeath are circumscribed by the A92 main road to Kirkcaldy, and beyond that the peat-bog and petrochemichal plant of Mossmorran.

There are three other senior league teams in Fife with East Fife around 8 miles to the east, and Cowdenbeath and Dunfermline Athletic 9 and 14 miles respectively, to the west.

Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre is located in Pit Road, next to Central Park in the centre of the town and has a swimming pool, gym, indoor sports facilities and three all-weather pitches for tennis or football.

Malcolm is training for East Fife since July 2012 and has been out of football since been released by East Fife's rivals Cowdenbeath in May 2011.

* Central Park, Cowdenbeath, a football stadium in Cowdenbeath, Scotland

Having previously worked as a coach while still playing for St. Johnstone and St. Mirren, Paatelainen was appointed full-time manager of Scottish Third Division part-time football team Cowdenbeath in August 2005.

His brother Gibby also played league football, for Airdrie, Dundee United, Cowdenbeath and Alloa.

The club shares rivalries with fellow Fife sides Cowdenbeath and Raith Rovers as well as Falkirk.

Team new boy, Norrie McCathie, signed in a swap deal from Cowdenbeath, scored 4 in his 19 appearances on his way to clocking up a club record of 497 league appearances before his death in 1996.

Cowdenbeath also has a golf club which was originally built as a 9 hole course on the old Dora Coal mine site.

In their first season playing at Ochilview, the club finished third in the league and played in the Second Division play-off, being eliminated in the semifinals by Cowdenbeath.

Hannah left the club in mid-December after a toothless defeat to Cowdenbeath.

He left in October 1925 to take over as secretary-manager of Cowdenbeath and had seven successful years at the club, keeping them in the Scottish First Division throughout his time in charge.

After retiring as a player in 2005, Paatelainen became manager of Scottish club Cowdenbeath, where he helped the club win the championship of Scottish Football League Third Division and earn a promotion.

On 21 October 2006, Paatelainen resigned as manager of Cowdenbeath to join Finnish club TPS.

He guided the club to promotion into the Second Division via the Third Division play-offs, beating Queen's Park in the 2-legged semi-final and then Cowdenbeath in the 2-legged final in May 2009.

For the Scottish Parliament North Queensferry forms part of the Cowdenbeath constituency which falls within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

He was brought up in Fife, educated at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath, and, at the age of 15, won a scholarship to the University of St Andrews, where he studied medicine.

For the Scottish Parliament Inverkeithing forms part of the Cowdenbeath constituency which falls within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

Jim Dobbin was born in Kincardine on Forth, Fife, Scotland, the son of a coal miner, and educated at the Catholic Saint Columba's High School, Cowdenbeath, and the Catholic St Andrew's High School on Overton Road in Kirkcaldy.

Cowdenbeath (;, ) is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland.

When the Fife Coal Company subsequently took them over in 1896, the Cowdenbeath Coal Company's pits were listed as: Lumphinnans Nos.

Such was the upsurge in mining activity that the population of Cowdenbeath doubled ( 4, 000-8, 000 ) in the ten years between 1890 and 1900 and gave rise to the nickname " Chicago of Fife ".

The headquarters offices of the Fife Miners ’ Association were opened in Victoria Street on 8 October 1910, the first Mine rescue station opened at Cowdenbeath on 4 November 1910 on Stenhouse Street, opposite Beath High School.

The Central Works, Cowdenbeath, ( commonly referred to as " The Workshops ") were built in 1924 by the Fife Coal Company Limited in order to centralise its supervisory staff and to cope with the greater amount of manufacturing and maintenance work caused by the intensive mechanisation programme which was being introduced in its mines.

Cowdenbeath lies in south-western Fife, near to the larger town of Dunfermline.

The team based in Cowdenbeath were known as the Fife Lions and featured riders from Edinburgh Monarchs and Glasgow Tigers in a series of challenge matches against league teams and scratch sides.

Born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife, Rankin attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath.

Rosyth is within the Cowdenbeath constituency of the Scottish Parliament, currently held by Helen Eadie of the Labour Party, as well as the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

Fife is the largest operator in the region and is responsible for urban, rural and interurban services in the towns of St Andrews, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Methil, Glenrothes, Leven and Kirkcaldy.

Head Office functions were amalgamated with Stagecoach East Scotland ( which also covers Fife and Perth operating areas ) at Guthrie House in Cowdenbeath.

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is a county constituency representing the areas around the towns of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, in Fife, Scotland, in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.