Wakefield FC

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Wakefield FC
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Basic data
Surname Wakefield Football Club
Seat Wakefield
founding 1903 (as Emley AFC)
First soccer team
Venue College Grove
Places 4,000
league Northern Premier League
Division One North
2013/14 22nd place
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The FC Wakefield (officially: Wakefield Football Club ), also known as The Bears (The Bear), was a football club from Wakefield in the northern English county of West Yorkshire . The club, which played its home games in College Grove with a capacity of 4,000, last played in the eight-class Northern Premier League Division One North from 1989 to 2014 .

history

The club was founded in 1903 as Emley AFC in the town of the same name Emley and started its game operations in the Huddersfield District League . In the course of its existence, he rose through the West Riding League to the Northern Premier League .

There are some inconsistencies regarding the exact year the association was founded. There is evidence that a club called Emley Football Club was founded in 1884 , but it is believed that it is a rugby club.

In the first 65 years, the club stayed in the lowest local leagues and was relatively inconspicuous. In 1968 the club was able to qualify for the FA Amateur Cup , the leading competition in amateur football. Here they reached the round of 16 and lost to FC Barking in a replay with 0: 1. The previously canceled game was the one with the highest number of spectators in Emley: a total of 5,134 spectators saw the game. For the 1969/70 season they rose to the Yorkshire League .

Yorkshire League

Emley won in the 1975/76 season with a 2-0 win over Worksop Town, the Sheffield Cup, the final of which was played at Hillsborough Stadium . Within the next seven years four times the championship in the Yorkshire League, three times the Yorkshire League Cup and two more times the Sheffield Cup could be won. 1979 you could qualify for the first round of the FA Trophy , but then failed to the Blyth Spartans .

In 1981, floodlights were first installed in the stadium. In the 1981/82 season you could win the double in the Yorkshire League with the championship and the league cup. Then the Yorkshire League was combined with the Midland League to form the Northern Counties East League. Michael Pamment, the club's record scorer with 305 goals, switched to coaching in 1978 and stayed there until 1985. During this time, the FA Vase was also able to celebrate some successes. In the 1986/87 season they reached the quarterfinals of this competition and then lost to St Helens Town AFC with 1: 2 in extra time. In the following season they even reached the final of the FA Vase, but then lost to the Colne Dynamoes 0-1 at Wembley Stadium . However, Emley won the championship in the league.

By winning the championship in the Northern Counties East League, the club would normally have been eligible for promotion to the Northern Premier League First Division . However, this failed because Emley could not meet the necessary space standards due to a lack of financial resources. It was not until 1989 that the club was approved for the next higher league after winning the championship again. In the 1988/98 season, the Sheffield Cup could be won for the fifth time.

Northern Premier League First Division

In its first game of the season in the new league, the club lost 3-0 to Winsford United, but the first season was finished in fifth place. With the promotion, Emley was henceforth qualified for the first round of the FA Trophy . The quarter-finals were reached in the first season, where they lost 3-0 to the Kidderminster Harriers .

By 1991 the club ended in the 3rd round of the FA Cup at the latest . The first round was achieved in 1991 when one in the stadium Leeds Road from Huddersfield Town before 9,035 spectators with 0: 3 lost. Although the Sheffield Cup was won for the seventh time and a respectable placement was also achieved in the league, the coach Gerry Quinn then switched to FC Altrincham , which was an enormous loss for the club.

After only one position in the bottom half of the table had been occupied each time in the following three seasons, the former Scottish international and player from Celtic Glasgow , Ronnie Glavin , took over the coaching office and rehabilitated the team. In 1996/97 the club failed again in the FA Trophy at the Kidderminster Harriers, but achieved 4th place in the league, the best placement in its history.

1997/98 should be a very successful season: In the FA Cup they reached the 3rd round of the competition with victories over Morecambe FC and Lincoln City FC , where they met West Ham United . The match was broadcast live on the BBC's Match of the Day program . Emley lost to West Ham 2-1, with Paul David scoring the goal for the underdog and Frank Lampard and John Hartson netting for West Ham. In the same season, the Sheffield Cup was won against Parkgate FC for the eighth time and the league finished in sixth place.

In the following season they were defeated in the FA Cup Rotherham United 1: 3, but reached the quarter-finals of the FA Trophy, where they were finally eliminated by Cheltenham Town .

After performing rather average in the following years, it became apparent that the association was leaving its home village. Newly introduced regulations could not be met due to a lack of space by the club, and so it was decided that Emley should move temporarily to the Belle Vue stadium of the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the 2000/01 season .

Move to Wakefield

In their new stadium, forwards Simeon Bambrook and Danny Day scored a total of 54 goals for Wakefield. 100 points were achieved in the season, but this was only enough for second place. In the final of the Sheffield Cup they lost against the Doncaster Rovers at Hillsborough Stadium with 1: 2.

In the following season 2001/02 they finished fifth in the league and lost again in the final of the Sheffield Cup to the Doncaster Rovers, this time with 0: 3. The club was then renamed Wakefield & Emley FC . Gradually, the club was only called Wakefield by many fans due to the move . 2003/04 experienced a disastrous season when they finished last in the league and relegation was avoided only due to a reorganization of the league system in England.

For the 2004/05 season the club was renamed again, this time in Wakefield-Emley . The season ended in a middle place in the table. The reserve team, which until then played in the North Counties East League, was dissolved and integrated into a newly founded club called AFC Emley. As a new club now existed in Emley, Wakefield-Emley was renamed again in 2007, this time under its current name Wakefield FC. The club moved to its new venue, College Grove, and the club colors were changed.

successes

  • Yorkshire League Cup
    • Winner: 1970, 1979, 1982
  • Sheffield Senior Cup:
    • Winner: 1976, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1998
  • Huddersfield League First Division
    • Masters: 1914, 1920, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1960, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
  • Huddersfield League Second Division
    • Master: 1948
  • Huddersfield Invitation Cup
    • Winner: 1939, 1966, 1968
  • Huddersfield Barlow Cup
    • Winner: 1955, 1966, 1968
  • Huddersfield FA Charity Shield
    • Winner: 1966, 1967
  • Aconley Cup
    • Winner: 1914
  • Dearne Valley Cup
    • Master: 1931
  • Dearne Valley League
    • Master: 1932

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