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West Stanley F.C.
West Stanley Football Club was a association football, football club based in the Pit village, mining village of West Stanley, County Durham, England. History The club was founded in 1889 as Oakey's Lilywhites, after the Open-pit mining, pit near the club's ground and its original colour shirts. It changed its name to West Stanley in 1896. The club joined the North Eastern League in 1906 and its highest league position was in 1949–50, when it finished as runners-up to North Shields F.C., North Shields. The club first entered the FA Cup in FA Cup 1905–06, 1905–06 when they were defeated in the 4th Qualifying Round by Northampton Town F.C., Northampton Town. The club's greatest success came in FA Cup 1919–20#First round proper, 1919–20, when they defeated Gillingham F.C., Gillingham of the Southern Football League, Southern League 3–1, before going out to Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur of the Football League Second Division. The club also reached the first r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
