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Vauxhall Motors Football Club is a
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club based in
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,
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, England. The club are currently members of the and play at Rivacre Park, known as the vanEupen Arena for sponsorship reasons. It was originally the
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of the
Vauxhall Ellesmere Port Vauxhall Ellesmere Port is a motor vehicle assembly plant, located in the town of Ellesmere Port, south of the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England. It has always built small/medium Vauxhall/Opel vehicles, including the Vauxhall Viva and Opel ...
Car Plant. It had much success in its local leagues and fought its way up to semi-professional status. It was announced in March 2014 that the club had tendered its resignation from the Football Conference, with effect from the end of season 2013–14. The club took over their reserve team's place back in the West Cheshire League Division One for the 2014–15 season. It is generally regarded as the local team of
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, although two other teams, Ellesmere Port and Ellesmere Port Town, play further down the pyramid in the Chester & District League.


History

Vauxhall Motors F.C. was founded in 1963, shortly after the opening of the new
Vauxhall Motors Vauxhall Motors LimitedCompany No. 00135767. Incorporated 12 May 1914, name changed from Vauxhall Motors Limited to General Motors UK Limited on 16 April 2008, reverted to Vauxhall Motors Limited on 18 September 2017. () is a British car compa ...
Car Plant in
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,
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. Early in its history, it played in the Ellesmere Port League and the Wirral Combination, but it soon grew too strong for those leagues. By 1970, the club had achieved several promotions and played on the company-owned
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. By 1987 however, it had opened its own ground, Rivacre Park, where the club plays today. The opening of the new ground was especially important as then
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manager
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brought a number of former international stars for the opening game. On the pitch, the club also started finding some success, winning its first
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championship in the 1985–86 season. Soon after, they reached their first Cheshire Amateur Cup and triumphed in the Wirral Senior Cup. These accomplishments did not go unnoticed, as the club successfully applied to join the
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for 1987–88. They easily won the league's Second Division in their second season at that level, and finished fourth in the First Division in 1989–90. Despite expectations to challenge for the league title the next season, the team only finished fifth, but won the North West Counties League Cup in the process, defeating
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2–0. Soon after its fifth-place finish, the board took the decision to move back down to the West Cheshire League where the club finished in third place in the two following seasons. However, in 1994–95, the club won both divisions of the league â€“ only the third time any club had achieved that in the 103-year history of the league. Soon after, they were accepted back into the North West Counties League. Just as before, they easily won the Second Division of the NWCL, but did not have the best of seasons in Division One, although they did reach the semi-final of the
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. It continued to play in Division One, and reached the final of the NWCL Cup, losing to Kidsgrove Athletic in a closely contested match. The 1998–99 season was the team's best by far to that point, reaching the fifth round of the
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and earning its best ever league position in third place, and won the NWCL Cup. However, the next season was even better, with the team reaching the semi-finals of the FA Vase and winning the NWCL title, thus earning a spot in Division One of the
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. The reserves also enjoyed a successful season, winning a number of smaller trophies. The club enjoyed considerable success in the Northern Premier League as well, earning promotion to the
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Premier Division in their first season, and finishing in second place in the league. The team continued to play well, with its high point coming when they defeated
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in their first appearance in the
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first round, before losing in the next round in a televised match against
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when that league was founded in 2004. The club finished twenty-first in the 2007–08 season, and were due to be relegated but after
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's liquidation and the Conference's decision to expel
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, the club were reprieved. In the 2009–10 season, the club finished twentieth. However, due to the earlier resignation of
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and the subsequent relegation of
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due to financial troubles, Vauxhall Motors was again given a reprieve from relegation. In the 2010–11 season, they again qualified for the first round proper of the FA Cup, but were unable to repeat the success of eight years previously, although Josh Wilson scored in the 38th minute, his header was disallowed, drawing 0–0 against
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before going on to lose 1–0 in the replay. On 26 May 2011 it was announced that, due to a promotion at work, Carl Macauley was stepping down from his role as manager and that his assistant Anthony Wright would be taking over the reins with former
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striker
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as his number two. However results didn't go as hoped despite assembling one of the strongest squads the club had seen, resulting in Carl Macauley making a shock return to the Rivacre Park hotseat in November 2011 with Anthony Wright reverting to Assistant Manager and
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to First Team Coach. In March 2014 the club announced its intention to withdraw from the
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due to "ever-increasing costs" leaving the club with no alternative but to return to the
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to stabilise and rebuild once again for the future. A week after the announcement long-serving manager Carl Macauley left to become Assistant Manager to
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, leaving Anthony Wright and
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in charge once again until the end of the season. Only four of the founder members of
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remained in the league for its first ten seasons:
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. Vauxhall's league positions in those season's were 15th, 18th, 15th, 21st, 11th, 20th, 17th, 18th, 12th and 18th. On 26 April 2014 Motors played their last game in Conference North for the foreseeable future losing 2–0 at home to
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. In May 2014 former Vauxhall favourite Alan Schumacker was appointed as first team manager. The former Motors defender was a member of Alvin McDonald's all conquering
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championship side and had been reserve team manager since the summer of 2010. He appointed Kevin Baker as his assistant and Steve Foulkes as coach for the coming season. At the end of the 2015-16 season manager Alan Schumacker and his assistant Kevin Baker left the club and were replaced by former Motors’ assistant manager Anthony Wright and former Mersey Royal Youth team manager Joe Wright as his assistant. However in October Anthony Wright had to step down due to family commitments and a month later Joe Wright left the club. In November 2016 the former
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captain, ex
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Reserve team manager Karl Bell was appointed the club’s new manager. Bell left the role in May 2018 and was replaced by
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manager Michael McGraa. The 2018–19 season saw the club miss out on promotion to the
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premier division by points per game after finishing second to champions Warrington Rylands. The 2019–20 once again saw Vauxhalls denied promotion, despite it already being secured with ten games to go, due to the season being declared null and void, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Vauxhalls were once again atop the
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first division south at Christmas in the 2020–21, when the season was curtailed once again due to covid19, however, due to the English pyramid system restructure, the club finally secured promotion to the
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Premier Division for the 2021–22 season via PPG from the previous two seasons.


Colours and badge

Vauxhall Motors' colours are white with a strip of blue for the top and navy blue shorts with navy blue socks. The away kit is yellow shirts, green shorts and yellow socks. The kits have been sponsored by car retailer Lookers Wirral since 2000. The team badge is the same as the logo of its parent company, Vauxhall Motors.


Stadium

Rivacre Park has been the home of Vauxhall since the 1986 season, the club having formerly played at Hooton Park. It has a capacity of 3,300 with covered stand and terracing, with space for 350 seated guests. The stand has been refitted with new seats along with a step in the terrace at the golf course end of the ground. A new toilet block, disabled toilet and a new turnstile block have also been added. To increase capacity, more barriers have been installed to the covered terrace and the club shop has since been re-opened after the roof was damaged in a storm. The ground also has a large sports and social club. This was originally for employees of the Vauxhall plant but is also open to the public on match days etc.


Records

* Highest League Attendance: 1,752 versus
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– 30 October 2012 * Highest
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Attendance: 1,109 versus
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First Round Replay) – 16 November 2010 * Highest
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Attendance: 1,104 versus
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4th Round) – 2 February 2002 * Biggest Home Win: 12–2 versus Blackpool Mechanics, 9 December 1995 * Biggest Home Defeat: 6–0 versus
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, 1 March 2008; 6-0 versus
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, 22 February 2022 * Biggest Away Win: 6–0 versus Hinckley United, 5 February 2013 * Biggest Away Defeat: 6–0 versus
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, 25 August 2007 * All-Time Leading Goalscorer: Terry Fearns – 111 goals * Most Appearances: Carl Nesbitt – 520 appearances (500 starts, 20 as sub) *Best League Position: 11th,
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, 2008–09 *Best
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Performance: 2nd Round Proper, 2002–03 *Best
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Performance: 4th Round Proper, 2001–02 *Best
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Performance: Semi-Finals, 1999–00


Current squad

:''As of 23 February 2022.''First Team
Vauxhall Motors FC


Notable players

Several players have gone on to play in the
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, including * Gregg Blundell – Formerly with
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Bradford City Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and are currently managed by Mark Hughes. Th ...
. Since 2012, he joined Swedish football. Ange IF. On 2015, he moved to Allsvenskan and played for
GIF Sundsvall Gymnastik- och Idrottsföreningen Sundsvall, more commonly known as GIF Sundsvall (), Giffarna or simply Sundsvall, is a Swedish professional football club based in Sundsvall. The club is affiliated with Medelpads Fotbollförbund and plays its h ...
. Currently without a club.


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Northern Premier League The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division One West and Divisio ...
**Premier Division Runners-up 2001–02 **Division One Runners-up 2000–01 *
North West Counties League The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the North West of England. Since 2019–20, the league has covered the Isle of Man, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, northern Staffordshire, northern S ...
**Division One Champions 1999–2000 **Division Two Champions 1988–89, 1995–96 **Floodlit Trophy Winners 1999–2000 **League Cup Winners 1990–91, 1998–99 *
West Cheshire League The West Cheshire Association Football League (commonly known as the West Cheshire League) is an English football league in the county of Cheshire, which also includes teams from Merseyside. Its current principal sponsor is ''Carlsberg'', also sp ...
**Division One Champions 1985–86, 1994–95, 2002–03 (Reserves) **Division Two Champions 1994–95 (Reserves) **Division Two Bowl Winners 1967–68 *Pyke Cup **Winners 1999–2000 (Reserves), 2004–05 (Reserves) **Runners-up 1972–73 * Cheshire County F.A. **Amateur Cup Winners 2013–14 (Reserves) **Runners-up 1993–94, 2000–01, 2004–05 *Wirral F.A. **Senior Cup Winners 1986–87, 2010–11 (Reserves), 2012–13 (Reserves), 2014–15 **Runners-up 1982–83, 1994–95, 1999–2000 (Reserves)


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