Brora Rangers will head to Edinburgh on Saturday with a chance to make club history after drawing 1-1 with Edinburgh City in the first leg of their play-off for a place in League Two.

The Highland League champions are a part-time village side from Brora, about 50 miles north of Inverness, and would become the most northerly team in UK professional football if they win the tie. The second leg now goes to the capital with the contest finely poised after the first meeting in Brora this week.

For a club founded in 1879 and in the Highland League since 1962, the scale of the moment is hard to miss. Mary Stewart said it would be amazing to get into the second division and that this is making history for Brora. She added that the club has had a lot of good times over the years, but this would top it all.

Stewart also said she believes Brora have the quality in the squad and a fantastic management and coaching team, a confidence that fits a side used to punching above its weight. The club knocked Hearts out of the Scottish Cup with a 2-1 win in the second round in 2021, and in 2015 it came close to promotion to League Two before narrowly losing out to Montrose.

Brora itself is a community of about 1,200 people on the North Coast 500 tourist route, a place better known in another era as Electric City after becoming the first spot north of Inverness to get electricity in the 1900s. It was also once home to the UK's most northerly deep coal mine, whose last shafts closed in the 1970s.

Now the club is one game away from a leap into Scotland's national professional leagues, with Saturday's trip south carrying the weight of more than a result. For Brora Rangers, it is a chance to turn a long local story into something the village has never seen before.