Coventry Sphinx Football Club is a

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club based in

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. They are currently members of the and play at Sphinx Drive.

History

The club was established in 1946 as a

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for

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under the name Armstrong Siddeley Motors Football Club.Club History
Coventry Sphinx F.C. In 1960 they were renamed Sphinx Football Club. The club were founder members of the Coventry Alliance and remained in the league until moving up to Division Two of the

Midland Combination The Midland Football Combination was an English football league covering parts of the West Midlands. It comprised five divisions, a Premier Division, Divisions One and Two and two Reserves Divisions. The league was one of three official feeder le ...

in 1993. They finished fourth in their first season in the league, earning promotion to Division One. The club went on to finish as runners-up in Division One in 1994–95, and were promoted to the Premier Division, at which point they adopted their current name. Coventry Sphinx were Premier Division runners-up in 1995–96 and again in 2001–02, a season which also saw them win the league's Challenge Cup.Honours
Coventry Sphinx F.C. They went on to finish as runners-up in consecutive seasons in 2004–05 (also winning the Challenge Cup again) and 2005–06 before winning the Premier Division title in 2006–07, earning promotion to the

Midland Alliance The Midland Football Alliance was an English association football league for semi-professional teams. It covered Leicestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire and also southern parts of Derbyshire and Nott ...

. In 2009–10 the club won the Midland Alliance League Cup, beating Westfields 3–1 in the final.Sphinx beat Westfields in League Cup final
BBC Sport, 12 May 2010 When the league merged with the Midland Combination in 2014 to form the

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in 2014, the club became members of the Premier Division. At the end of the 2020–21 season Coventry Sphinx were transferred to the Premier Division South of the

United Counties League The United Counties League (also known after its sponsor as the ''Uhlsport United Counties League'') is an English football league covering Northamptonshire, Rutland and Bedfordshire and most of Leicestershire as well as parts of Buckinghamshi ...

Ground

The club play at Sphinx Drive, the name of which was adopted in 1995. In the mid-1990s a new stand was built and opened with a friendly match against a

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team. The record attendance of 935 was set for a league match against

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in 2016. The stadium was rebranded The Ryona Engineering Supplies Stadium in 2019.

Honours

*Midland Alliance **League Cup winners 2009–10 *Midland Combination **Premier Division champions 2006–07 **Challenge Cup winners 2001–02, 2004–05 **Tony Allden Cup winners 2006–07 *Coventry Evening Telegraph Challenge Cup **Winners 1965–66, 2004–05, 2005–06 *Coventry Charity Cup **Winners 2006–07 *Birmingham FA Midweek Floodlit Cup **Winners 2006–07

Records

*Best

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performance: Third qualifying round, 2009–10 *Best

FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English footbal ...

performance: Quarter-finals, 2007–08 *Record attendance: 935 vs

, Midland League Premier Division, 26 April 2016Attendances up again at Sphinx Drive
Coventry Sphinx F.C.

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