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Subject: Re: Accrington Stanley (was Re: Results wanted)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:20:37 +0000







In message <1992Sep9.190607.24968@pony.Ingres.COM> cmorris@Ingres.COM
(Colin Morris)

>The Preliminary round of the qualifying competition took place at the
>end of August, the 1st round of the qualifying competition takes place
>on Saturday. Given the growing entry into the FA Cup, there are now an
>enormous number of preliminary round results.

144 ties in the 1st Qualifying round and there were roughly the same number
in the Preliminary Qualifying round. Winners in the 4th Qualifying round
(28 teams) qualify for the Cup proper.

>Talking of former league clubs, Bradford Park Avenue are once again in
>existence, playing in the North West Counties League along with other
>former league clubs Glossop North End, Bootle (?) and Darwen.

The following list gives the leagues of all ex-League clubs which still
exist or have a successor. The list shows the current level in the pyramid
(counting FA Premier as 1), current league, club name with last league season
in brackets, and for clubs which no longer exist the date of clubs demise and
the replacement club with formation date

 1  FA Prem   Leeds City (1919)             1919      Leeds United (1919)
 3  BL 2      Stoke (1908)                  1908      Stoke City (1908)
              Wigan Borough (1931)          1931      Wigan Ath (1932)
 5  GMVC      Gateshead (1960)              1973      Gateshead (1976) 
              Merthyr Town (1930)           1939      Merthyr Tydfil (1945)
              Northwich Vics (1894)
              Stalybridge Celtic (1923)
 6  HFS Prem  Accrington Stanley (1962)     1962      Accrington Stanley (1968)
              Barrow (1972)
              Gainsborough Trinity (1912)
              Southport (1978)
 7  BHL Mid   Newport County (1988)         1989      Newport AFC (1989)
    HFS 1     Workington (1977)
 8  NW Co 1   Bradford (1970)               1974      Bradford Park Ave (1988)
              Darwen (1899)
              Glossop (1915)
    North 1   Durham City (1928)            1939      Durham City (1949)
 9  Diad 3    Aldershot (1992)              1992      Aldershot Town (1992)
    NW Co 2   Nelson (1931)                 1936      Nelson (1936)
    North 2   Ashington (1929)

Leeds City were disbanded by the FA in October 1919 for financial
irregularities.

Bradford were usually known as Bradford Park Avenue.

Glossop were Glossop North End until 1901 and from 1992. The "North End" was
originally after Preston NE and on promotion to Div One (not bad for a town
of only 25000) they dropped "North End" as they were now competing on equal
terms with Preston.

Stoke City were known as Stoke until 1925.

Other clubs (last league season in brackets):

Aberdare Athletic (1927) were merged with Aberaman between 1926-28, Aberaman
played in the Welsh League Division One last season (two divs below the new
League of Wales).

Accrington, founder members of the league, resigned in 1893 and disbanded.
Accrington Stanley were formed later (don't know when).

Bootle resigned from the league and disbanded in 1893. Langton FC (formed 1953)
became Bootle FC in 1972. They play in NW Counties Div 1.

Burton Wanderers (1897) and Burton Swifts (1901) merged in 1901 to from
Burton United (1907). United disbanded in 1910. The town of Burton now
has Burton Albion (formed 1950) in BHL Premier Division.

Loughborough (1900) disbanded in 1900. The town no longer has a senior team
following Loughborough United's demise in 1974.

New Brighton Tower's (1901) fate is unknown to me. They are not the same
club as New Brighton (1951) who disappeared around 1982. There were rumours
of a reformation a couple of years ago.

The fate of Middlesbrough Ironopolis (1894) and Thames Association (1932) are
not known to me.

>Colin Morris       Ingres, an ASK company       cmorris@ws2s.ingres.com
>
>"And there'll be more football in a moment, but first we've got
> highlights of the Scottish League Cup Final" -- Gary Newbon

Can we have a new joke please, this one's a bit stale now  :-)

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