Chester City

Full name

Chester City Football Club

place

Founded

1885

Dissolved

March 10, 2010

Club colors

blue

Stadion

Deva Stadium

Top league

Football League Second Division

successes

Football Conference winner (2003/04), Welsh Cup winner (1908, 1933 and 1947), Combination League winner (1909)

home

Away

Chester City (officially: Chester City Football Club ; formerly: Chester Football Club or Chester FC ) - also known as The Blues - was an English football club from Chester , a city in north-west England, near the border with Wales .

history

Deva Stadium - Chester City Football Club (recorded in 1992)

View of a Chester City game at Deva Stadium , 1992.

The club was created in 1885 after a merger of the two clubs Chester Rovers and Old King's Scholars under its founding name Chester FC. Until 1890, the club only played friendly games before joining the Combination League ; a league in which teams from the north and northwest of Great Britain and Wales participated. In 1895 the club won the Cheshire Senior Cup, in 1889 the old sports field was lost. In 1901 the club found a new venue on Whipcord Lane. The team took part in the Welsh Cup in the first half of the last century and won 3 competitive titles (1908, 1933 and 1947). From 1908 the club played in the stadium on Sealand Road. In 1909 they won the Combination League.

As a regular participant in the lower leagues of English football, Chester City has faced a number of difficulties due to the low number of fans (the city of Chester currently only had 77,000 inhabitants) and the fact that it has always been in narrow stadiums with a capacity of less than 8,000 people played. The problems became apparent in the 1930s when the club competed in the 3rd Northern Division, which was the 14th level in the English football system. At the FA Cup in 1933, however, she managed a feat with a 5-0 win over Fulham .

Renamed Chester City Football Club

In 1983 the Chester government decided to add the suffix "City" to the club's name, which was then renamed Chester City Football Club .

From 1992 and dissolution of the association

From 1992 the club played at Deva Stadium , which was opened on August 24, 1992 by Lord Aberdare . Deva Stadium was temporarily renamed Saunders Honda Stadium from 2004 to 2007 .

Most recently Chester City played in the Conference National . Since the club was deducted 25 points because of financial irregularities, relegation appeared to be impossible. The association was dissolved on March 10, 2010. The successor club was Chester FC .