Bournemouth AFC

Bournemouth AFC
	Bournemouth AFC
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Basic data
Surname	Association Football Club Bournemouth
Seat	Bournemouth , England
founding	1899
Colours	Red Black
Board	Eddie Mitchell
Website	afcb.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach	Jason Tindall
Venue	Vitality stage
Places	12,000
league	EFL Championship
2019/20	▼ 18th place ( Premier League )

The AFC Bournemouth (officially: Association Football Club Bournemouth ) - also known as The Cherries ( German Die Kirschen ) - is an English football club from Bournemouth . It was founded in 1899 and will play in the Premier League for the first time in the 2015/16 season . The promotion to the top division is also the greatest success in the club's history.

history

Founding phase and record time in the third division

After it was founded in 1899 as Boscombe Football Club , named after a suburb of Bournemouth of the same name, the club first played in the area of Kings Park , where the current venue, the Goldsands Stadium , is also located. In 1910, the club was nicknamed The Cherries , which was inspired by both the red playing attire and the fact that there was a garden with cherry trees nearby.

When it was renamed Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Football Club in 1923, the path to professional football in the Third Division South began . After the first game, which was lost 3-1 to Swindon Town , the club stayed in 43 seasons in the third highest English league, with the third division becoming a single track from the 1958/59 season . The club set a record for the longest uninterrupted stay in the third division.

The first success of the club celebrated shortly after the Second World War , when at Stamford Bridge of Walsall FC in the final of the Third Division (South) Cup could be beaten. In the 1956/57 season, the team defeated in the FA Cup successively Burton Albion , Swindon Town, Accrington , Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur , before they lost 2-1 at Manchester United . This game was attended by 28,799 spectators, which is the record attendance to this day. In recognition of the achievements in the FA Cup, the club then received the Giant Killers Cup .

Relegation and a new beginning

In 1970 the club rose for the first time in the fourth division . This was followed by direct resurgence, in which Ted MacDougall scored 49 goals. The club renamed AFC Bournemouth shortly before the beginning of the following season . MacDougall drew attention again the following season when he scored nine goals in an 11-0 win over Margate .

After a narrowly missed promotion in the first season after returning to the third division, the AFC Bournemouth rose in 1975 even back to the fourth division and had to let MacDougall go alongside coach John Bond . In the next six years, the club played in the lowest English league before promotion could be secured in the 1981/82 season under player-coach David Webb . Despite this success, Webb was replaced as an interim coach by former player Harry Redknapp . After a poor start to the 1983/84 season under Don Megson , Redknapp took over the management of the team permanently and scored a surprising 2-0 win in the FA Cup against Manchester United. Nevertheless, the club finished at the end of the championship round on a weak 17th place in the table.

The Bournemouth AFC under Harry Redknapp

There followed a positive development under Redknapp, when in 1984 the Associate Members' Cup, which was played for the first time , was won and in the 1986/87 season as a third division champion, the leap into the second division was achieved for the first time .

There the relegation could be secured in two seasons, until on the last day of the 1989/90 season in the encounter against Leeds United , which in turn were in the fight for the second division championship, a victory was needed to stay in the second division again. Bournemouth lost that game, with numerous Leeds supporters causing great damage both inside and outside the stadium. Redknapp failed in the next two years in the play-off games in each case close to promotion and then resigned from his post.

Financial problems

When Tony Pulis took over the sporting management, the table status deteriorated further and were accompanied by increasing financial problems of the club. Pulis was replaced at the beginning of the 1994/95 season by the former player Mel Machin and after a race to catch up Bournemouth remained barely in the third division. After that, the team's performance stabilized somewhat after Machin had managed to sign a few new players on a free transfer. Nevertheless, the liabilities have now totaled three million pounds and bankruptcy threatened . This was averted through a trust fund headed by Trevor Watkins , who later became president of the association. Then Bournemouth was able to draw attention to itself by the renewed participation in the final in the Football League Trophy of 1998, but lost this encounter with 1: 2 against Grimsby Town .

At the end of the 1998/99 season, the club missed qualifying for the play-offs for promotion to the second division by a 0-0 in the last game against AFC Wrexham and seventh place in the table only by a less scored goal. Off the field, however, Bournemouth had to struggle with money problems again, which in turn led to player sales. After an injury misery took hold in the ranks of the team and the club slipped into the lower midfield, Machin was inherited by his assistant coach Sean O'Driscoll and switched himself to the position of technical director. Despite some bad omens, Bournemouth was again promising contenders in the battle for promotion places in the 2000/01 season, which was largely due to the later national player Jermain Defoe on loan from West Ham United with 19 goals. On the last day of the match they missed out on the play-offs for promotion due to an exciting 3: 3 at the immediate competitor Wigan Athletic .

Promotion from the fourth division to the Premier League

The increased expectations were already disappointed in the following year. After you had to play a time in Dorchester during the renovation of your own stadium , the club was relegated at the end of the season, but this was followed by direct resurgence. The debt had now risen to five million pounds. Nevertheless, the performance in the upper half of the table in the third division stabilized in the following period and Bournemouth concentrated under coach O'Driscoll on the development of young talent, with the team during this time on the part of the professional world to play an attractive offensive football. In September 2006, O'Driscoll left the club for the Doncaster Rovers . Successor was the former club player Kevin Bond and the club took a somewhat disappointing 19th place in the 2006/07 season.

At the end of the 2007/08 season, AFC Bournemouth rose to Football League Two. After the club had disregarded rules of the Football League during the bankruptcy proceedings, the league association punished him with a 17-point deduction for the 2008/09 season. With Jimmy Quinn on September 2, 2008, a former player of the club took over the training management for a few months before Eddie Howe was his successor on January 1, 2009 . Under his leadership, the Cherries managed to stay in the Football League Two despite the deduction of points. Without the handicap of a point deduction, the 2009/10 season got off to a good start, at the end of which was the return to the third highest division (League One). The 2012/13 season ended with second place, which entitles to promotion to the second-rate Football League Championship .

In the 2014/15 season , Bournemouth achieved their first promotion to the Premier League on matchday 46 with a 3-0 win against Charlton Athletic . The team spent most of the time in the promotion ranks and could not be deprived of the direct promotion place despite strong competition from Middlesbrough and Norwich . At the same time Bournemouth was with 90 points from 46 games before Watford FC champions of the Football League Championship.

In the first Premier League season in the club's history, AFC Bournemouth managed to avoid relegation and ended the 2015/16 season in 16th place in the table.

In the 2016/17 season , the club played a very good season and ended up in 9th place in the table. In the following years ( 2017/18 season in 12th place and 2018/19 season in 14th place) the club was able to maintain its league membership without any problems.

Squad for the 2019/20 season

As of August 15, 2019

No.	position	Surname	Nat.	birthday	since
01	goal	Artur Boruc	Poland	76630646100 ♠Feb. 20, 1980	2015
02	Defense	Simon Francis (C)	England	76823766000 ♠Feb 16, 1985	2012
03	Defense	Steve Cook	England	77062189075 ♠Apr 19, 1991	2012
04th	midfield	Dan Gosling	England	77015955650 ♠0Feb. 2, 1990	2014
05	Defense	Nathan Aké	Netherlands	77210936050 ♠Feb. 18, 1995	2017
06th	midfield	Andrew Surman	England	76880697300 ♠Aug 20, 1986	2014
07th	attack	Joshua King	Norway	77091584975 ♠Jan 15, 1992	2015
08th	midfield	Jefferson Lerma	Colombia	77196703225 ♠Oct 25, 1994	2018
09	attack	Dominic Solanke	England	77308798350 ♠Sep 14 1997	2019 (01)
10	midfield	Jordon Ibe	England	77239773800 ♠0Dec 8, 1995	2016
11	Defense	Charlie Daniels	England	76882464775 ♠0Sep 7 1986	2012 (01)
12	goal	Aaron Ramsdale	England	77335589550 ♠May 14, 1998	2019
13	attack	Callum Wilson	England	77095678075 ♠Feb. 27, 1992	2014
14th	midfield	Arnaut Danjuma (Groeneveld)	Netherlands	77286565375 ♠Jan. 31, 1997	2019
15th	Defense	Adam Smith	England	77063119325 ♠Apr 29, 1991	2014
16	midfield	Lewis Cook	England	77286937475 ♠0Feb 3, 1997	2016
17th	Defense	Jack Stacey	England	77254471750 ♠0Apr 6, 1996	2019
19th	midfield	Junior Stanislas	England	77006281050 ♠Nov. 26, 1989	2014
20th	midfield	David Brooks	Wales	77302286600 ♠0July 8, 1997	2018
21st	Defense	Diego Rico	Spain	77134004375 ♠Feb 23, 1993	2018
22nd	midfield	Harry Wilson	Wales	77291681750 ♠22 Mar 1997	2019
24	midfield	Ryan Fraser	Scotland	77172795800 ♠Feb. 24, 1994	2013
25th	Defense	Jack Simpson	England	77284425800 ♠0Jan. 8, 1997	2018
26th	Defense	Lloyd Kelly	England	77349264225 ♠0Oct 1, 1998	2019
27	goal	Asmir Begović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	76913442100 ♠June 20, 1987	2017
28	midfield	Kyle Taylor	England	77384520700 ♠Aug 28, 1999	2018 (02)
29	midfield	Philip Billing	Denmark	77260890475 ♠June 11, 1996	2019
33	Defense	Chris Mepham	Wales	77313914725 ♠0Nov 5, 1997	2019 (01)
36	midfield	Matt Butcher	England	77296891150 ♠May 14, 1997	2015
38	midfield	Nnamdi Ofoborh	Niger	77391497575 ♠0Nov 7, 1999	2019
53	midfield	Gavin Kilkenny	Ireland	77402846625 ♠0Feb. 1, 2000	2019
54	attack	Alex Dobre	Romania	77346008350 ♠Aug 30, 1998	2019