Tamworth FC
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| Surname | Tamworth Football Club | ||
| Seat | Tamworth | ||
| founding | 1933 | ||
| Colours | Red Blue | ||
| Website | thelambs.co.uk | ||
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| Venue |
The Lamb Ground Tamworth |
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| Places | 4,065 | ||
| league | Southern Football League | ||
| 2019/20 | End of the season | ||
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The FC Tamworth (officially: Tamworth Football Club ) - also known as The Lambs - is an English football club from Tamworth , Staffordshire , which since 2009 in the Conference National , the fifth-highest division in England, plays. The club's venue is The Lamb Ground , which has 4,065 seats .
Club history
Founded in 1933, the club began its early years in the Birmingham Combination . The team could not show any notable success in the early years and was accepted into the Birmingham & District League Northern Division in 1954 . A year later, the team managed to win the championship in Division Two of the Birmingham & District League and then rose to Division One. Even after the league's name changed, which was continued under the name West Midlands (Regional) League in 1962 , the club retained the championship and was able to achieve its first successes in the following years. In 1964, 1966 and 1972 the team managed to win the West Midlands (Regional) League . After winning the third title in 1972, the club was accepted into the Southern Football League .
The team played the following seven years continuously in Division One North of the Southern Football League and moved to the Northern Premier League in 1979 . Four disappointing seasons followed, with the team ending up at the bottom of the league, and in 1983 the team returned to the Southern League. The club made another league change a year later and competed in the West Midlands (Regional) League for four years. In the 1987/88 season, Tamworth FC won the championship of the West Midlands League for the fourth time in the club's history and then returned again to the Southern League. The season 1988/89 was finished in third place and the promotion to the next higher class was only just missed.
In the same year a success could be celebrated by winning the FA Vase . In the final game Sudbury Town could be defeated. The Tamworth FC was also active for the following ten years in the Southern League and made promotion to the Football Conference by winning the championship in the 2002/03 season . The team also reached the final of the FA Trophy , but lost to Burscough FC . After Tamworth missed relegation in the Conference National in the 2006/07 season with 48 points from 46 games , succeeded after the 2008/09 season with winning the Conference North to return to the fifth-highest division.
League affiliation
- 1954-1962: Birmingham Combination
- 1962–1972: West Midlands (Regional) League
- 1972-1979: Southern League
- 1979–1983: Northern Premier League
- 1983-1984: Southern League
- 1984–1988: West Midlands (Regional) League
- 1988-2003: Southern League
- 2003–2018: Conference National and Conference North
- since 2018: Southern League
successes
- West Midlands (Regional) League winners: 1963/64, 1965/66, 1971/72, 1987/88
- Southern Football League Division One Midlands Winner: 1996/97
- Southern Football League Premier Division Winner: 2002/03
- FA Vase - Winner: 1989
- FA Trophy Finalist: 2003
- Conference North winner: 2008/09
