Worcester City
| Worcester City | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Worcester City Football Club | ||
| Seat | Worcester , England | ||
| founding | September 9, 1902 | ||
| Website | worcestercityfc.org | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Claines Lane | ||
| Places | |||
| league | Midland League | ||
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Worcester City (officially: Worcester City Football Club ) is an English football club from Worcester in the county of Worcestershire .
history
Worcester City was founded in September 1902 and took over the league place of the Worcester-based club Berwick Rangers in the Birmingham & District League, which was also plagued by financial problems . A second club called Worcester Rovers , which is occasionally also named as the predecessor club, had already stopped playing two years earlier. The club quickly established itself as one of the leading clubs in Worcestershire and won the Worcestershire Senior Cup seven times in a row between 1908 and 1914, and in 1914 also won the first of four championships in the Birmingham & District League. 1938 moved to the Southern Football League. After the Second World War, the club ran a total of 16 times for election to the Football League , but was always unsuccessful.
In the FA Cup , in the main rounds of which the club participated 16 times until 2018, they caused a sensation in the 1958/59 season when after successes over fourth division Millwall FC (5: 2) and second division Liverpool FC (2: 1 ) only in the fourth round against the first division club Sheffield United through a 0-2 defeat came the end. The 17,042 spectators in the completely overcrowded St George's Lane are still valid attendance record for a home game of Worcester City. In 1979, the Southern League achieved the greatest success by winning the championship, thereby qualifying for the Alliance Premier League , the top division in non-league football , which was launched in 1979 . 1985 Worcester rose again from the Southern League, 2004 the club was a founding member of the Conference North . Worcester stayed in the sixth highest division of England until 2017 before being relegated again. For financial reasons, the club waived its starting place in the Southern League and was classified in the ninth-class Midland League . Since the sale of St George's Lane in 2013, the club no longer has its own stadium, and plans for a new building have not yet been implemented. From 2013 to 2016, the club therefore played in the Aggborough Stadium , 20 kilometers from Worcester , home of the Kidderminster Harriers . From 2016 to 2020 the club played at the Victoria Ground in Bromsgrove , after which they returned to Worcester through an agreement with the Worcestershire FA for a long-term lease of Claines Lane .
literature
- Bill Cook, Julian Pugh: The Official History of Worcester City FC . Britesport Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-904103-99-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dave Twydell: Denied FC Yore Publications, Harefield 2001, ISBN 1-874427-98-4 , pp. 168 f .
- ↑ bbc.com: Worcester City to drop down non-league pyramid (May 12, 2017) , accessed June 9, 2018
- ↑ worcesternews.co.uk: Worcester City FC "sign lease" with Worcestershire FA for Claines Lane (August 6, 2020) , accessed August 29, 2020