Harrogate Town

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Harrogate Town
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Basic data
Surname Harrogate Town Association Football Club
Seat Harrogate
founding 1919 ( Harrogate AFC )
1935 (as Harrogate Hotspur )
Website harrogatetownafc.com
First soccer team
Head coach EnglandEngland Simon Weaver
Venue Wetherby Road
Places 5000
league EFL League Two
2019/20   2nd place ( National League )
home
Away

Harrogate Town (officially: Harrogate Town Association Football Club ) is a football club from the city ​​of Harrogate in North Yorkshire . The club rose to fourth-rate EFL League Two for the first time in 2020 .

history

As early as 1914, a club was established under the name Harrogate AFC , but this withdrew as a result of the First World War in September 1914 from gaming operations before a game had been played. In 1919 a new association was founded under the same name, and today's association follows its tradition. After the team was disbanded in 1932, members of the local YMCA founded a new club in 1935 under the name Harrogate Hotspur , and in 1948 the club was renamed Harrogate Town AFC .

Initially active in local amateur leagues, the club joined the Yorkshire League in 1957 , which went to the Northern Counties East League in 1982 . With the expansion of the Northern Premier League , Harrogate Town was a founding member of the second division of the NPL in 1987, and in 2002 the champions were promoted to the Premier Division of the NPL. In 2003 the team reached the main round of the FA Cup for the first time , a year later they qualified as fifth in the table for the newly created Conference North . After Neil Aspin had held the coaching position from 2005 to 2009, Simon Weaver took over the coaching post in 2009. In 2011, his father Irving Weaver, who had made his fortune in the real estate business, became the new owner of the club, and in 2017 the club decided to introduce full profit.

Already at the end of the first season under professional conditions, they placed themselves behind Salford City in second place in the division, which has since been renamed National League North , and rose to the fifth-rate National League after play-off victories over Bradford Park Avenue and Brackley Town . There they placed in the 2018/19 season in sixth place in the table, in the play-offs was already in the quarter-finals after a 1: 3 defeat against AFC Fylde . A year later, the season that had been canceled due to the global Covid-19 pandemic ended in second place, in the subsequent play-offs they defeated FC Boreham Wood 1-0 in the semi-finals and thus reached the promotion final against Notts County , in which you competed for the first time in the club's history at Wembley Stadium . Thanks to a 3-1 success, he was promoted to the EFL League Two and the associated first-time participation in the divisions of the English Football League .

successes

  • Winner of the play-offs of the National League : 2019/20
  • National League North play-off winners : 2017/18
  • Master of the Northern Premier League Division One 2001/02
  • Yorkshire League Champions : 1926-27
  • West Riding County Challenge Cup winners: 1924/25, 1926/27
  • West Riding County Cup winners: 1962/63, 1972/73, 1985/86, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2007/08
  • Whitworth Cup: 1919/20, 1924/25, 1931/32, 1946/47, 1947/48, 1950/51, 1954/55, 1959/60, 1961/62, 1972/73, 1977/78, 1983/84 , 1995/96

League affiliation

literature

  • Phil Harrison: The Official History of Harrogate Town Football Club . Phil / Car Publishing, Ripon 2010, ISBN 978-0-9549065-1-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ yorkshirepost.co.uk: National League North outfit Harrogate Town to turn professional next year (January 4, 2017) , accessed on August 2, 2020
  2. ↑ bbc.com: National League promotion final: Harrogate Town v Notts County (August 1, 2020) , accessed August 2, 2020