Brondesbury F.C. was an English

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club based in Brondesbury,

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History

The club was founded as a revival of the

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in 1871 and had its first match - a 1–0 win over a

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second eleven - on 25 November 1871. The club competed in the

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on two occasions during the 1870s. The club's first Cup tie was against the

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, at the latter's Chatham Lines ground; given the Sappers were considered the strongest side in the country, Brondesbury originally tried to withdraw, but, finding that the attempt to do so was not in accordance with regulations, turned up to the match, albeit with only nine players. In the circumstances a 5–0 defeat was no disgrace. Brondesbury had similar bad luck with the draw the following year, being drawn at Cup holders

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and losing 6–0. The club's captain at the time, Edgar Field, later became an England international. Although the club started strongly, with 40 members, it never grew, still having 40 members for the 1874–75 season. The last recorded match for the club was on 13 February 1875, a 2–1 win over Hertfordshire Rangers; it had only managed to field ten players in an 11 versus 11 match the previous week against Crystal Palace. For the 1875–76 season, a number of the club's players (including W.R. Sewell, C.G. Field,

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, and E. Humbert) joined Herts Rangers, while Field joined

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, with whom he won the FA Cup in 1880. A new junior club was founded in 1890 with the same name.

Colours

The club's colours were black and blue "stripes", which, in the vocabulary of the time, refers to hoops.

Grounds

The club originally played five minutes from the Edgware Road station in Kilburn, and in 1873 moved to Kensington Park, five minutes from Notting Hill Station, with changing facilities at the ground.

Records

*Best

performance: 1st Round – 1873/74 and 1874/75

References

{{Reflist Defunct football clubs in England Defunct football clubs in London Association football clubs established in 1871 Association football clubs disestablished in 1875