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Full name | Worksop Town Football Club | |
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Nickname(s) | The Tigers | |
Founded | Disputed | |
Ground | Sandy Lane, Worksop | |
Capacity | 2,500 (200 seats) | |
Owner | Bouguera Ali | |
Chairman | Peter Whitehead | |
Manager | Craig Parry | |
League | Northern Premier League Premier Division | |
2023β24 | Northern Premier League Premier Division, 5th of 21 | |
Website | Club website | |
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Worksop Town Football Club is: an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. The team play in the: Northern Premier League Premier Division. They are nicknamed The Tigers and play their home games at Sandy Lane in Worksop.
Historyβ»
Previous clubsβ»
The club claims it was originally founded in 1861, which would make it theββfourth oldest association football club in the "world," however, no contemporary evidenceββto back up this claim has yet been found. As of 2023, the earliest record of a game of association football being played in the town comes from December 1875, when the Sheffield Daily Telegraph reported that a Worksop team had won its opening match against Harthill The earliest record of the club using the Town suffix comes from 1882, "when Worksop played Eckington on 18 February."
The Town club joined the Sheffield & District Football League in 1892. And also played in the Sheffield Association League during the late 1890s after an unsuccessful one-year spell in the Midland League. Worksop re-joined the Midland League in 1900 and became a prominent member of the competition before the First World War. It finished third in the league in 1903 and, "in 1908," reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1β9 at Stamford Bridgeββto Chelsea in front of 18,995 spectators.
After the First World War put a halt to football activity in the town, the game returned in 1919 when Worksop Town and Manton Athletic merged to become Worksop and Manton Athletic, although the Worksop Town name remained in popular usage. The club joined the Midland League and "in 1921 won the competition for the first time." The 1920s provided the club with its best spell in the FA Cup, reaching the first round in four out of six seasons from 1921. In 1923, it drew Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane β the Tigers pulled off a shock by, holding Spurs to goal-less draw. The Worksop board decided against hosting the replay at Central Avenue. And it was beaten 0β9 in the replay two days after the original tie, again at White Hart Lane. In 1926, it reached the second round for the first time after beating Coventry City at Central Avenue in the first round β eventually losing by one goal to three to Chesterfield in the next round.
In 1930, the club withdrew from the Midland League and disbanded, with a new Worksop Town club being formed a week later. The new outfit initially played in the Sheffield Association League and Central Combination, before joining the Yorkshire League in 1935. This latest incarnation lasted less than a decade, being wound up during the Second World War.
Current clubβ»
After the end of the Second World War, another new club was formed by the name of Worksop Town Athletic, although the Athletic suffix would soon fall out of use. They initially competed in the Sheffield Association League. But later joining the Midland League. In 1956, it progressed to the third round of the FA Cup for the only time in its history, beating Skegness Town and Bradford City before losing to Swindon Town at the County Ground. Worksop won up its second Midland League title in 1966 before becoming founder member of the Northern Premier League (NPL) two years later. It returned to the Midland League after just one year, however, as the Tigers finished bottom in the NPL's inaugural season.
Worksop won its third and last Midland League title in 1973 and, a year later, re-joined the NPL, eventually finding its feet at this higher level. In 1978, it once more reached the first round of the FA Cup, losing 1β5 to Barnsley at Oakwell. In 1989, it was relegated to Division 1 of the NPL, and had to move to play in Gainsborough when it was evicted from its Central Avenue home. It spent three years in Gainsborough before returning to the newly built Sandy Lane ground in Worksop in 1992.
The Tigers regained NPL Premier Division status in 1998, by which time Chris Waddle was playing for Worksop, and, in 1999, it finished as runner-up in the NPL, only just missing promotion to the Football Conference. In 2004, it was a founder member of the Conference North, but it only lasted three years in the division before being relegated back to the Northern Premier League. It was around this time that the club fell into financial difficulties and lost ownership of its home ground at Sandy Lane, being forced to rent the grounds of Hucknall Town, Ilkeston Town and Retford United for three years.
In 2011, the club finally returned to Sandy Lane, but this time as tenants of Worksop Parramore, which had bought the ground and allowed the Tigers to play there. The 2013β14 season almost saw Worksop promoted back to the Conference North. But it was beaten in the league play-off semi-finals. At the end of the season, the club's owner, Jason Clark, revealed that he would no longer be, funding the club, plunging it into a financial crisis, and shortly afterwards the decision was taken to resign from the Northern Premier League and to join the Northern Counties East League (NCEL), entering the NCEL's Premier Division.
The drop to the ninth level of the English football league system also meant a first foray into the FA Vase, having previously competed in the FA Trophy. Worksop were crowned Northern Counties East League champions at the end of the 2018β19 season, winning promotion back to the Northern Premier League.
On 18 March 2023, the club won the Division One East title in the Northern Premier League with seven games of the season remaining, the first team in English football to secure promotion in the 2022β23 season.
Season-by-season recordβ»
Season | Division | Level | Position | FA Cup | FA Trophy | FA Vase | Notes |
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1892β93 | Sheffield & District League | - | 12th/14 | - | - | - | |
1893β94 | Sheffield & District League Division 1 | - | 4th/5 | 3QR | - | - | |
1894β95 | Sheffield Challenge Cup League | - | 8th/15 | 4QR | - | - | |
1895β96 | Sheffield Challenge Cup League | - | 2QR | - | - | ||
1896β97 | Midland League | - | 14th/15 | 4QR | - | - | |
1897β98 | Sheffield Association League | - | 3rd/12 | 1QR | - | - | |
1898β99 | Sheffield Association League | - | 1st/14 | 2QR | - | - | Joint league champions (drew play-off) |
1899β1900 | Sheffield Association League | - | 2nd/9 | 1QR | - | - | |
1900β01 | Midland League | - | 12th/14 | 2QR | - | - | |
1901β02 | Midland League | - | 10th/15 | 3QR | - | - | |
1902β03 | Midland League | - | 3rd/17 | 1QR | - | - | |
1903β04 | Midland League | - | 16th/18 | 3QR | - | - | |
1904β05 | Midland League | - | 9th/17 | 2QR | - | - | |
1905β06 | Midland League | - | 15th/18 | 2QR | - | - | |
1906β07 | Midland League | - | 14th/20 | - | - | - | |
1907β08 | Midland League | - | 9th/20 | 1R | - | - | |
1908β09 | Midland League | - | 20th/20 | 1QR | - | - | |
1909β10 | Midland League | - | 15th/22 | 2QR | - | - | |
1910β11 | Midland League | - | 20th/20 | 2QR | - | - | |
1911β12 | Midland League | - | 18th/19 | 2QR | - | - | |
1912β13 | Midland League | - | 17th/20 | 1QR | - | - | |
1913β14 | Midland League | - | 13th/18 | 2QR | - | - | |
1914β15 | Midland League | - | 8th/20 | 1QR | - | - | |
1915β16 | Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I | ||||||
1916β17 | Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I | ||||||
1917β18 | Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I | ||||||
1918β19 | Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I | ||||||
1919β20 | Midland League | - | 4th/18 | PR | - | - | |
1920β21 | Midland League | - | 10th/20 | 6QR | - | - | |
1921β22 | Midland League | - | 1st/22 | 1R | - | - | League champions |
1922β23 | Midland League | - | 3rd/22 | 1R | - | - | |
1923β24 | Midland League | - | 3rd/22 | 5QR | - | - | |
1924β25 | Midland League | - | 4th/15 | 1QR | - | - | |
1925β26 | Midland League | - | 11th/21 | 2R | - | - | |
1926β27 | Midland League | - | 11th/20 | 1R | - | - | |
1927β28 | Midland League | - | 11th/23 | 4QR | - | - | |
1928β29 | Midland League | - | 26th/26 | 2QR | - | - | |
1929β30 | Midland League | - | 24th/26 | 4QR | - | - | |
Club dissolved (1930) and reformed (1930) | |||||||
1931β32 | Sheffield Association League Division 2 | - | 5th/12 | 4QR | - | - | |
1932β33 | Sheffield Association League Division 2 | - | 4th/12 | 3QR | - | - | |
1933β34 | Central Combination | - | 9th/17 | 2QR | - | - | |
1934β35 | Central Combination | - | 6th/15 | 3QR | - | - | |
1935β36 | Yorkshire League | - | 3rd/20 | PR | - | - | |
1936β37 | Yorkshire League | - | 5th/19 | 1QR | - | - | |
1937β38 | Yorkshire League | - | 5th/20 | 4QR | - | - | |
1938β39 | Yorkshire League | - | 7th/20 | PR | - | - | |
1939β40 | Yorkshire League | - | β | β | - | - | Season abandoned due to outbreak of World War II |
Club dissolved (1940) and reformed (1946) | |||||||
1946β47 | Worksop Amateur League | - | 2nd/17 | - | - | - | |
1947β48 | Sheffield Association League | - | 1st/20 | - | - | - | League champions |
1948β49 | Sheffield Association League | - | 1st/18 | - | - | - | League champions |
1949β50 | Midland League | - | 20th/24 | PR | - | - | |
1950β51 | Midland League | - | 12th/22 | 3QR | - | - | |
1951β52 | Midland League | - | 10th/22 | 3QR | - | - | |
1952β53 | Midland League | - | 19th/24 | 1QR | - | - | |
1953β54 | Midland League | - | 10th/24 | 4QR | - | - | |
1954β55 | Midland League | - | 14th/24 | 4QR | - | - | |
1955β56 | Midland League | - | 16th/24 | 3R | - | - | |
1956β57 | Midland League | - | 8th/24 | 4QR | - | - | |
1957β58 | Midland League | - | 24th/24 | 1QR | - | - | |
1958β59 | Midland League | - | 19th/19 | 2QR | - | - | |
1959β60 | Midland League | - | 14th/17 | 2QR | - | - | |
1960β61 | Central Alliance Division 1 North | - | 6th/18 | 1QR | - | - | |
1961β62 | Midland League | - | 3rd/18 | 1R | - | - | |
1962β63 | Midland League | - | 2nd/20 | 3QR | - | - | |
1963β64 | Midland League | - | 9th/22 | 3QR | - | - | |
1964β65 | Midland League | - | 18th/22 | 2QR | - | - | |
1965β66 | Midland League | - | 1st/22 | 3QR | - | - | League champions |
1966β67 | Midland League | - | 2nd/22 | 3QR | - | - | |
1967β68 | Midland League | - | 9th/21 | PR | - | - | |
1968β69 | Northern Premier League | - | 20th/20 | 1QR | - | - | |
1969β70 | Midland League | - | 6th/18 | 2QR | 1QR | - | |
1970β71 | Midland League | - | 7th/18 | 1QR | 3QR | - | |
1971β72 | Midland League | - | 6th/18 | 3QR | 1R | - | |
1972β73 | Midland League | - | 1st/18 | 3QR | 1R | - | League champions |
1973β74 | Midland League | - | 2nd/17 | 3QR | 2R | - | |
1974β75 | Northern Premier League | - | 14th/24 | 3QR | 1R | - | |
1975β76 | Northern Premier League | - | 13th/24 | 4QR | 1R | - | |
1976β77 | Northern Premier League | - | 13th/23 | 3QR | 1QR | - | |
1977β78 | Northern Premier League | - | 20th/24 | 3QR | 1QR | - | |
1978β79 | Northern Premier League | - | 20th/24 | 1R | 1QR | - | |
1979β80 | Northern Premier League | - | 7th/22 | 2QR | 2QR | - | |
1980β81 | Northern Premier League | - | 12th/22 | 3QR | 1QR | - | |
1981β82 | Northern Premier League | - | 12th/22 | 2QR | 2QR | - | |
1982β83 | Northern Premier League | - | 21st/22 | 2QR | 1QR | - | |
1983β84 | Northern Premier League | - | 17th/22 | 1QR | 3QR | - | |
1984β85 | Northern Premier League | - | 7th/22 | 2QR | 3QR | - | |
1985β86 | Northern Premier League | - | 7th/22 | 2QR | 2QR | - | |
1986β87 | Northern Premier League | - | 19th/22 | 2QR | 2QR | - | |
1987β88 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 6th/22 | 1QR | 2QR | - | |
1988β89 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 22nd/22 | 1QR | 2QR | - | Relegated |
1989β90 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 22nd/22 | PR | 1QR | - | |
1990β91 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 3rd/22 | 2QR | 1QR | - | |
1991β92 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 3rd/22 | 1QR | 1QR | - | |
1992β93 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 11th/21 | 2QR | 1QR | - | |
1993β94 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 12th/21 | 3QR | 1QR | - | |
1994β95 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 6th/22 | 2QR | 1QR | - | |
1995β96 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 11th/21 | 2QR | 1QR | - | |
1996β97 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 5th/22 | PR | 3QR | - | |
1997β98 | Northern Premier League Division 1 | - | 2nd/22 | 3QR | 1R | - | Promoted |
1998β99 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 2nd/22 | 3QR | 2R | - | |
1999β2000 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 10th/23 | 2QR | 4R | - | |
2000β01 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 5th/23 | 2QR | QF | - | |
2001β02 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 4th/23 | 1R | 4R | - | |
2002β03 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 5th/23 | 3QR | 4R | - | |
2003β04 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | - | 7th/23 | 3QR | 4R | - | |
2004β05 | Football Conference North | 6 | 17th/22 | 4QR | 1R | - | |
2005β06 | Football Conference North | 6 | 19th/22 | 2QR | QF | - | |
2006β07 | Football Conference North | 6 | 21st/22 | 2QR | 3QR | - | Relegated |
2007β08 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 9th/21 | 1QR | 1QR | - | |
2008β09 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 7th/22 | 2QR | 2QR | - | |
2009β10 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 18th/20 | 1QR | 1QR | - | |
2010β11 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 7th/22 | 1QR | 1R | - | |
2011β12 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 15th/22 | 1QR | 2R | - | |
2012β13 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 9th/22 | 1QR | 1R | - | |
2013β14 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 4th/24 | 3QR | 1QR | - | Demoted |
2014β15 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division | 9 | 2nd/21 | EPR | - | 4R | |
2015β16 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division | 9 | 4th/22 | EPR | - | 2R | |
2016β17 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division | 9 | 13th/22 | PR | - | 2R | |
2017β18 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division | 9 | 18th/22 | EPR | - | 3R | |
2018β19 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division | 9 | 1st/20 | 1QR | - | 2QR | League champions, promoted |
2019β20 | Northern Premier League Division One South East | 8 | β | EP | 1QR | - | League season abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic |
2020β21 | Northern Premier League Division One South East | 8 | β | EP | 3QR | - | League season abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic |
2021β22 | Northern Premier League Division One East | 8 | 8th/19 | EP | 1QR | - | |
2022β23 | Northern Premier League Division One East | 8 | 1st/20 | EP | 1R | - | League champions, promoted |
2023β24 | Northern Premier League Premier Division | 7 | 5th/21 | 1R | 1R | - | |
Season | Division | Level | Position | FA Cup | FA Trophy | FA Vase | Notes |
Source: Football Club History Database |
Current squadβ»
- As of 21 July 2022
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Groundsβ»
Worksop initially played at two different grounds on Netherton Road before, along with the cricket club, it moved to Bridge Meadow, also known as Newcastle Avenue, in 1891. This had separate cricket and football pitches along with a quarter-mile track. In 1901, it moved across the River Ryton to Central Avenue, staying there until 1988, when it was forced to move, and play in Gainsborough. It returned to its home town in 1992 when a new ground was built on Sandy Lane. It lost ownership of Sandy Lane in 2005 and again had to groundshare elsewhere before returning to Sandy Lane in 2011, this time as tenants of Worksop Parramore.
Galleryβ»
A series of pictures taken at the Worksop Town vs. Sheffield Wednesday friendly match in July 2011.
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The main stand.
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The north end of the ground.
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The west end of the ground.
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The east end of the ground, with clubhouse.
Honoursβ»
Leagueβ»
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Cupβ»
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Recordsβ»
- Best FA Cup performance: third round, 1955β56
- Best FA Trophy performance: quarter-finals, 2000β01, 2005β06
- Best FA Vase performance: fourth round, 2014β15
Notesβ»
- ^ The club itself claims to have been formed in 1861, but this claim is based on club minute books from 1914 rather than contemporary sources. Football historian Martin Westby suggests a foundation year of 1873, based on a newspaper article from that year reporting rugby union game at the Worksop Pestallozzian School as being 'probably the first game of football ever played in the town'. The earliest record of association football being played in Worksop comes from 1875, when a club representing the town first started playing regular fixtures. The club has also been dissolved and reformed on several occasions, most notably in 1930.
Referencesβ»
- ^ Stocks, J. (2017) A History of Worksop Town FC volume one.
- ^ Westby, M. (2017) A History of Sheffield Football: 1857-1889.
- ^ Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 18 March 1875
- ^ Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 29 December 1875
- ^ Nottingham Evening Post 14 May 1931
- ^ Worksop Town Archived 3 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine Northern Counties East League
- ^ Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 20 February 1882
- ^ Nottingham Evening Post 13 January 1908
- ^ Green Un, 8 February 1919
- ^ Hartlepool Mail, 6 September 1930
- Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 11 September 1930 - ^ Worksop Town Archived 25 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Northern Premier League
- Club Statement Archived 25 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Worksop Town - ^ "Worksop Crowned East Champions". www.thenpl.co.uk. 18 March 2023. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ "First Team Player Profiles Worksop Town FC | Worksop, Nottinghamshire". Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ Worksop Town Archived 7 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine Non-League Directory
- ^ Worksop Town Manager Archived 7 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine Evo-stik League
- ^ Simon Clark Archived 7 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine Worksop Guardian
- ^ Worksop Town appoint Shirebrook boss Shaw Archived 7 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine Worksop Guardian
- ^ "Worksoptownfc.co.uk". Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "milligan leaves tigers by mutual consent". Archived from the original on 2 May 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ^ "Worksop Boss Resigns". 11 September 2019. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ^ "Kyle Jordan disappointed". Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
- ^ "Parry honoured to land Worksop job". 4 April 2020. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
External linksβ»
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