Bournemouth AFC
Bournemouth AFC | ||||
Basic data | ||||
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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 ) | |||
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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 |
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1 | goal | Artur Boruc | Feb. 20, 1980 | 2015 | |
2 | Defense | Simon Francis | Feb 16, 1985 | 2012 | |
3 | Defense | Steve Cook | Apr 19, 1991 | 2012 | |
4th | midfield | Dan Gosling | Feb. 2, 1990 | 2014 | |
5 | Defense | Nathan Aké | Feb. 18, 1995 | 2017 | |
6th | midfield | Andrew Surman | Aug 20, 1986 | 2014 | |
7th | attack | Joshua King | Jan 15, 1992 | 2015 | |
8th | midfield | Jefferson Lerma | Oct 25, 1994 | 2018 | |
9 | attack | Dominic Solanke | Sep 14 1997 | 2019 (01) | |
10 | midfield | Jordon Ibe | Dec 8, 1995 | 2016 | |
11 | Defense | Charlie Daniels | Sep 7 1986 | 2012 (01) | |
12 | goal | Aaron Ramsdale | May 14, 1998 | 2019 | |
13 | attack | Callum Wilson | Feb. 27, 1992 | 2014 | |
14th | midfield | Arnaut Danjuma (Groeneveld) | Jan. 31, 1997 | 2019 | |
15th | Defense | Adam Smith | Apr 29, 1991 | 2014 | |
16 | midfield | Lewis Cook | Feb 3, 1997 | 2016 | |
17th | Defense | Jack Stacey | Apr 6, 1996 | 2019 | |
19th | midfield | Junior Stanislas | Nov. 26, 1989 | 2014 | |
20th | midfield | David Brooks | July 8, 1997 | 2018 | |
21st | Defense | Diego Rico | Feb 23, 1993 | 2018 | |
22nd | midfield | Harry Wilson | 22 Mar 1997 | 2019 | |
24 | midfield | Ryan Fraser | Feb. 24, 1994 | 2013 | |
25th | Defense | Jack Simpson | Jan. 8, 1997 | 2018 | |
26th | Defense | Lloyd Kelly | Oct 1, 1998 | 2019 | |
27 | goal | Asmir Begović | June 20, 1987 | 2017 | |
28 | midfield | Kyle Taylor | Aug 28, 1999 | 2018 (02) | |
29 | midfield | Philip Billing | June 11, 1996 | 2019 | |
33 | Defense | Chris Mepham | Nov 5, 1997 | 2019 (01) | |
36 | midfield | Matt Butcher | May 14, 1997 | 2015 | |
38 | midfield | Nnamdi Ofoborh | Nov 7, 1999 | 2019 | |
53 | midfield | Gavin Kilkenny | Feb. 1, 2000 | 2019 | |
54 | attack | Alex Dobre | Aug 30, 1998 | 2019 |
Trainer
- Harry Kinghorn (1923-1925)
- Leslie Knighton (1925-1928)
- Frank Richards (1928-1930)
- Billy Birrell (1930-1935)
- Bob Crompton (1935-1936)
- Charlie Bell (1936-1939)
- Harry Kinghorn (1939–1947)
- Harry Lowe (1947-1950)
- Jack Bruton (1950-1956)
- Freddie Cox (1956-1958)
- Don Welsh (1958–1961)
- Bill McGarry (1961-1963)
- Reg Flewin (1963-1965)
- Freddie Cox (1965-1970)
- John Bond (1970-1973)
- Trevor Hartley (1973-1975)
- John Benson (1975-1978)
- Alec Stock (1979-1980)
- David Webb (1980-1982)
- Don Megson (1983)
- Harry Redknapp (1983-1992)
- Tony Pulis (1992-1994)
- Mel Machin (1994-2000)
- Sean O'Driscoll (2000-2006)
- Kevin Bond (2006-2008)
- Jimmy Quinn (2008)
- Eddie Howe (2008-2011)
- Lee Bradbury (2011-2012)
- Paul Groves (2012)
- Eddie Howe (2012-2020)
- Jason Tindall (since 2020)
Former players
- Nigel Spackman (1980-1983)
- George Best (1983)
- Colin Clarke (1985-1986, 1988)
- Luther Blissett (1988–1991)
- Jamie Redknapp (1989-1991)
- Matt Holland (1994-1997)
- Rio Ferdinand (1996-1997)
- John O'Shea (2000)
- Jermain Defoe (2000-2001, 2017-)
- Liam Ridgewell (2002)
League affiliation
- 1923-1970: Football League Third Division
- 1970–1971: Football League Fourth Division
- 1971–1975: Football League Third Division
- 1975–1982: Football League Fourth Division
- 1982–1987: Football League Third Division
- 1987–1990: Football League Second Division
- 1990-1992: Football League Third Division
- 1992–2002: Football League Second Division
- 2002–2003: Football League Third Division
- 2003-2004: Football League Second Division
- 2004-2008: Football League One
- 2008-2010: Football League Two
- 2010-2013: Football League One
- 2013–2015: Football League Championship
- 2015-2020: Premier League
- since 2020: EFL Championship
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e website of the association on the subject of history ( Memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://www.afcb.co.uk/teams/first-team accessed August 12, 2019