Chesterfield FC
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| Surname | Chesterfield Football Club | |||
| Seat | Chesterfield , England | |||
| founding | October 19, 1867 | |||
| Website | chesterfield-fc.co.uk | |||
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| Head coach |
 John Pemberton (interim)
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| Venue | Proact Stadium , Chesterfield | |||
| Places | 10,338 | |||
| league | National League | |||
| 2019/20 | 20th place | |||
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The Chesterfield FC (officially: Chesterfield Football Club ) is an English football club based in Chesterfield , of its home games at Proact Stadium discharges. The club is also because of the famous leaning spire of Chesterfield Parish Church The Spireites ( German spiers ) called.
history
Foundation phase
The Chesterfield Football Club was founded on October 19, 1867 during a meeting of the Chesterfield Cricket Club in the County Hotel in Saltergate and is now considered the fourth oldest professional club in England, although the date of origin has not yet been established beyond doubt with regard to the founding of Stoke City and Chesterfield possibly even the third oldest club.
Just a year later, the club played its first game and lost to the Garrick Club from Sheffield . The team competed in the club colors that will always be valid in the future, with blue shirts and white shorts. Only in the season 1890/91, when Chesterfield played in the colors of the Union Jack , this tradition was interrupted.
In the early days, when the game was played with 14 players per team, Chesterfields Tommy Bishop , a regular tobacco trader , was known as the best player in the entire North Derbyshire region of his day. In 1881 the association disbanded and was reorganized as Chesterfield Town a year later . Under this name Chesterfield first joined the Midland League in 1896 and was officially accepted into the Second Division of the Football League only three years later . There the club won in its first game against Woolwich Arsenal by Herbert Munday's winning goal .
Struggles for existence at the beginning of the 20th century
Financial problems then led from 1909 to leaving the Football League and in 1915 to the renewed dissolution of the club. Under the name Chesterfield Town Football Club , the club returned shortly afterwards under the direction of the innkeeper O. W. Everest , but got involved in a financial scandal in 1917. In 1919 the club was re-founded under the name Chesterfield Municipal Football Club and in 1921 joined the newly formed Division 3 (North) .
After nine years of membership in the third division, Chesterfield won the championship in 1931 after a record of 46 league games without defeat until 2003 and rose to the second division.
Stay in the lower leagues and international trips
In the period that followed, the club shuttled between the second and third division in terms of performance. Another rise in 1936 was offset by relegations in 1933 and 1951. The previous attendance record of April 7, 1939, when 30,968 visitors were counted in the league game against Newcastle United , also dates from this time . In the 1940s , Chesterfield played a number of international friendlies and borrowed shirts from Ajax Amsterdam for these games . Further plans for a tour of Brazil in 1948 were thwarted by the FA.
In 1958, Gordon Banks stood for the first time as a young goalkeeper between the posts, replacing Ron Powell , who had previously played in 284 consecutive games. Banks would later be part of the English world championship team in 1966, while Chesterfield in 1961 even had to relegate to the Fourth Division, which had been newly founded three years earlier .
For the remainder of the 1960s, the club should remain in the lowest professional league until Chesterfield then returned to the third division as a fourth division champion in 1970 . During the period up to 1983, when the club was relegated again and only narrowly escaped the financial collapse through a short-term rescue operation by two businessmen from Chesterfield, the club was able to win its first and so far only title in 1981 with the Anglo-Scottish Cup . With the fourth division championship in 1985, Chesterfield ensured the return to the third division.
Cup successes and recent developments
After the club had been in fourth class again since 1989 , it drew attention to itself in 1992 with a spectacular 4: 4 in the league cup on Anfield Road against Liverpool . Three years later, Chesterfield won the play-off for promotion to the third division ( now called Second Division after the founding of the Premier League ) at Wembley with 2-0 against Bury and celebrated his well in 1997 in the FA Cup biggest achievements.
Chesterfield moved into the semi-finals in the English Cup, where they initially separated from Middlesbrough FC 3: 3 at Old Trafford , although a goal by Jonathan Howard for Chesterfield was not recognized, which turned out to be a wrong decision after viewing the video footage after the game. In the replay, Chesterfield then lost 3-0 and was eliminated from the competition.
This was followed by further setbacks in the form of relegation in 2000 and a subsequent 9-point deduction for the coming season due to financial inconsistencies in the club, in which several 100,000 pounds were embezzled. Despite this handicap and with the support of the Chesterfield Football Supporters' Society consortium set up by the supporters , the club managed to get back on its feet. Until 2007, the club held steadily in the third division, but then rose to Football League Two (fourth division). Four years later he returned to Football League One .
In the summer of 2008, local businessman Chris Taylor took ownership of the club for an estimated £ 6.8 million. At around the same time, Chesterfield FC announced plans to build a new stadium on Whittington Moor by 2010, after planning permission had been granted. In the summer of 2010, the b2net Stadium (now the Proact Stadium ), built for £ 13 million, was inaugurated.
League affiliation
- 1896-1899: Midland League
- 1899–1909: Football League Second Division
- 1909-1921: Midland League
- 1921–1931: Football League Third Division
- 1931-1933: Football League Second Division
- 1933-1936: Football League Third Division
- 1936–1951: Football League Second Division
- 1951–1961: Football League Third Division
- 1961–1970: Football League Fourth Division
- 1970–1983: Football League Third Division
- 1983–1985: Football League Fourth Division
- 1985–1989: Football League Third Division
- 1989–1992: Football League Fourth Division
- 1992–1995: Football League Third Division
- 1995–00: Football League Second Division
- 2000/01: Football League Third Division
- 2001-2004: Football League Second Division
- 2004-2007: Football League One
- 2007-2011: Football League Two
- 2011–2012: Football League One
- 2012-2014: Football League Two
- 2014-2017: Football League One
- 2017/18: Football League Two
- since 2018: National League
successes
- Master Midland Football League : 1909/10, 1919/20
- Champions Football League Third Division North : 1930/31, 1935/36
- Champions Football League Fourth Division : 1969/70, 1984/85, 2010/11
- Anglo-Scottish Cup : 1980/81
- Football League Trophy : 2011/12
Trainer
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Dean Saunders (2015)
literature
- Stuart Basson: Chesterfield FC: The Official History 1867-2000 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2000, ISBN 978-1-874427-73-5 .
- Stuart Basson: Lucky Whites and Spireites: Who's Who Chesterfield FC Yore Publications, Harefield 1998, ISBN 978-1-874427-03-2 .
Web links
- Official website of Chesterfield FC
- Website with detailed information on the history of Chesterfield FC
Individual evidence
- ^ "Stadium and store application granted" (Yorkshire Post)