Eastbourne Borough

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Basic data
Surname Eastbourne Borough Football Club
Seat Eastbourne
founding 1964
Colours Red Black
Website ebfc.co.uk
First soccer team
Venue Priory Lane
Eastbourne
Places 4.151
league National League South
2019/20 18th place
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Eastbourne Borough (officially: Eastbourne Borough Football Club ) - also known as The Sports - is an English football club from Eastbourne , East Sussex , which plays in the National League South . The club's venue is the 4,151-seat Priory Lane .

Club history

Founded in 1964 as Langney Football Club , the club began its early years in the Eastbourne & District Football League . The first name change followed four years later when the club was renamed Langney Sports Club . The team was promoted to the Eastbourne & Hastings League in 1974 after a successful season . At the beginning of the 1983/84 season Langney was accepted as one of the founding members of the newly created third division of the Sussex County League . In the period that followed, the team managed to celebrate their first successes. As the winner of the third division of the Sussex County League , the club made it to the second division and a year later succeeded with the promotion to the first division, the next promotion.

Langney established itself as one of the best teams in the first division when in ten of twelve years a placement among the top nine teams was achieved, the 1999/2000 season of the highest division of the Sussex County League was concluded as a winner and the first promotion secured in the Southern Football League . Langney Sports entered the 2000/01 season in the Eastern Division of the Southern Football League and achieved a placement in 9th place. For the 2001/02 season a change of name for the club was announced, which now took part in the game as Eastbourne Borough Football Club . A year later, by reaching second rank in the Eastern Division of the Southern League, the promotion to the Premier Division was achieved.

The club then managed to stay in the top division of the Southern League and was included in the Conference South for the 2004/05 season after a major restructuring of the Football Conference . It was reached with 64 points, the 5th final place in the Conference South. Eastbourne was also active in the league for the following three years and achieved second place in the league with 80 points and qualified for the first time in the club's history for the Conference National after winning the play-offs against Braintree Town and Hampton & Richmond Borough . The season 2008/09 could be finished with the 13th place on a safe middle field and the league could be managed.

In 2011, after three years in the Conference National , Eastbourne had to relegate back to the Conference South after a 23rd place with only 39 points . In the event of a resurgence, the club structures should be professionalized.

Garry Wilson, who had worked as a coach since 1999 and under whose direction the club rose several times, resigned in January 2012. At the time of his retirement, Eastbourne was 16th in Conference South. Wilson was replaced by Tommy Widdrington and relegation was achieved on the penultimate game day.

League affiliation

  • 1964–1974: Eastbourne & District Football League
  • 1974-1983: Eastbourne & Hastings League
  • 1983-2000: Sussex County League
  • 2000-2004: Southern Football League
  • 2004-2008: Conference South
  • 2008-2011: Conference National
  • since 2011: Conference / National South

successes

  • Sussex County League champions: 1999/2000
  • Runner-up in the Southern League Eastern Division: 2002/03
  • Conference South (Playoff Winner): 2004/05 *, 2007/08

* Eastbourne won the Conference South play-offs but lost the Conference North / South play-off final to Altrincham.

List of trainers

Known players

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ County League - Snelgrove seals title , The Argus. April 12, 2000. Retrieved March 16, 2016. 
  2. ↑ Football: Langney Taken Off the Map , The Argus. May 29, 2001. Archived from the original on September 26, 2012. Retrieved on April 15, 2009. 
  3. ^ Borough up but title goes west , The Argus. May 5, 2003. Retrieved March 30, 2016. 
  4. ↑ Steve Hollis: Wilson thrilled as Eastbourne Borough promoted . In: The Argus , May 8, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
  5. ↑ Steve Hollis: Borough relegated . In: The Argus , April 16, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011. 
  6. ^ A 13-year romance . In: Eastbourne Herald , January 19, 2012. 
  7. ^ Widdrington: I want to be part of another successful era with Eastbourne Borough . In: Eastbourne Herald , February 1, 2012.