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2017–18 Bradford City A.F.C. Season
The 2017–18 season will be Bradford City's 115th season in their history, in the Football League and in the English football league system. Along with League One, the club will also compete in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018. Preseason As of 13 July 2017, Bradford City have announced seven preseason friendlies against Guiseley, Sunderland, Newcastle United, FC Halifax Town, Bradford Park Avenue, TV Echterdingen and Eccleshill United. League One League table Result summary Matches On 21 June 2017, the fixtures for the forthcoming season were announced. FA Cup In the FA Cup, Bradford City were drawn at home to Chesterfield for the first round, Plymouth Argyle also at home in the second round and either Port Vale or Yeovil Town away in the third round. The latter won their replayed match 3–2 to host the ''Bantams.'' EFL Cup On 16 June 2017, Bradford City were drawn at home to Doncaster Rovers in th ...
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Stuart McCall
Andrew Stuart Murray McCall (born 10 June 1964) is a professional football coach and former player. He is currently assistant manager of Preston North End. McCall played in a total of 763 league games and in 40 full international matches for Scotland during his playing career. McCall started his career with Bradford City, where he made his first-team debut in 1982. He played six seasons at Valley Parade, during which time he won the Division Three championship, a title which was overshadowed by the Bradford City stadium fire when 56 people died and in which his father Andy was injured. After missing out on promotion in 1987–88, McCall moved to Everton, for whom he scored twice but finished on the losing side in the 1989 FA Cup Final. In 1991, he moved to Rangers, with whom he spent seven seasons and won five league titles, three Scottish Cups and two Scottish League Cups. McCall returned to Bradford City as captain to take them into the top division of En ...
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Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the world, and was the top-level football league in England from its foundation until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split from it to form the Premier League. The Football League was rebranded as the "English Football League" (EFL) starting with the 2016–17 season. The EFL is divided into the EFL Championship, Championship, EFL League One, League One and EFL League Two, League Two, with 24 clubs in each division, 72 in total, with promotion and relegation between them; the top Championship division clubs change places with the lowest-placed clubs in the Premier League, and the bottom clubs of League Two with the top clubs of the National League (division), National League. Currently four of the EFL clubs are from Wales – Cardiff City F.C., Car ...
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Omari Patrick
Omari Joshua Curtis Patrick (born 24 May 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger and forward for EFL League Two club Tranmere Rovers. He trained at the FAB Academy and started his career in non-League with Beaconsfield SYCOB. He signed his first professional contract with Kidderminster Harriers and signed for his first EFL club with Barnsley, before moving to Bradford City a season later, where he made his Football League debut. Early and personal life Patrick was born in Slough. His father is Commonwealth Games Gold-winning athlete Adrian Patrick, and his godfather is sprinter Linford Christie. Career Beaconsfield SYCOB After leaving the FAB Academy, Patrick joined Beaconsfield SYCOB after having unsuccessful trials with Brentford, Barnet and Rangers. He scored on his debut against Bedford Town. Whilst at the club he scored 14 goals in 49 matches over one and a half seasons, and went on trial to Oxford United. Kidderminster Harriers On 5 Decemb ...
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Shay McCartan
Seamus Vincent McCartan (born 18 May 1994) is a Northern Irish footballer who plays as a forward for NIFL Premiership side Portadown. McCartan joined Burnley in May 2010 on a two-year scholarship, having previously played for Banbridge Town and Glenavon. He made his debut for the club in the Championship in April 2012 and spent the 2012–13 season on loan at Hyde. He joined Accrington Stanley on a free transfer in July 2013 and went on to play 126 matches over the next four seasons, scoring 24 goals. He was named as League Two Player of the Month in March 2017 and three months later was signed by Bradford City for an undisclosed six-figure fee. He spent the 2018–19 season on loan at Lincoln City, who would win promotion as champions of League Two. He spent the 2019–20 season back at Bradford, before being released in May 2020. It was announced in September 2020 that he had signed with Ballymena United in the Irish Premiership. Having scored goals for his country at u ...
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Timothée Dieng
Timothée Dieng (born 9 April 1992) is a French professional footballer who last played for Cheltenham Town on loan from club Gillingham. He plays mainly as a midfielder, but can also operate as a defender. Career Early career Dieng played as a goalkeeper in his youth before becoming "bored" with the position, and moving upfield, initially as a striker. Dieng signed for his home town club Grenoble at age 10, remaining there until he was 19. While there he played in the final of the 2010–11 Championnat National U19, losing to Paris Saint-Germain. Brest On 23 January 2013, Dieng made his debut for Brest in the Coupe de France, coming on as a substitute at half time in the 3–1 victory over CA Bastia. On 18 May 2013, Dieng made his Ligue 1 debut, starting in the 3–1 loss to Paris Saint-Germain. Oldham Athletic On 14 July 2014, Dieng joined English League One side Oldham Athletic on a two-year contract. Dieng made his debut for the club, starting and playing for ...
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Horsfall Stadium
Horsfall Community Stadium is a sports stadium just off Halifax Road in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, south-west of the city centre. It is the home of Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. Albion Sports A.F.C. and West Bowling ARLFC Originally built as a running track in 1931, it was upgraded for football in 1996 when Bradford (Park Avenue) moved to the stadium and the track was upgraded to a synthetic surface at the same time. History Horsfall was officially opened on 5 September 1931 by Alderman S Horsfall JP who was chairman of the parks and cemeteries committee. It was originally opened as a running track in 1931 hosting athletics and a base for Airedale Harriers AC (later to become Bradford Airedale AC). The stadium did not change much until 1996 when homeless Bradford (Park Avenue) moved in and the ground was brought up to standard for football to be played. Changes were made in 2007 to ensure Horsfall met the stringent ground grading requirements of the Football Ass ...
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Eccleshill United F
Eccleshill may refer to the following places in England: * Eccleshill, Lancashire *Eccleshill, West Yorkshire Eccleshill is an area, former village, and ward (politics), ward within the City of Bradford, Bradford district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The ward population of Eccleshill is 17,540, increasing at the 2011 Census to 17,945. Ec ... ** Eccleshill railway station {{geodis ...
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Bradford (Park Avenue) A
Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdom, city status has belonged to the larger City of Bradford metropolitan borough. It had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 Census for England and Wales, 2011 census, making it the second-largest subdivision of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area after Leeds, which is approximately to the east. The borough had a population of , making it the List of English districts by population, most populous district in England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city grew in the 19th century as an international centre of Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest Industrialisation, ...
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Newcastle United F
Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in New South Wales, Australia, named after Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle, New Castle or New Cassel may also refer to: Places Australia * City of Newcastle, a local government area in New South Wales * County of Newcastle, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Division of Newcastle, a federal electoral division in New South Wales * Electoral district of Newcastle, an electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Electoral district of Newcastle (South Australia) 1884–1902, 1915–1956 in the South Australian House of Assembly *Newcastle, New South Wales, a city in New South Wales * Newcastle Waters, a town and locality in the Northern Territory * Newcastle West, New South Wales, inner suburb of the city * Toodyay, Wes ...
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Sunderland A
Sunderland () is a port city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most populous settlement in the Wearside conurbation and the second most populous settlement in North East England after Newcastle. Sunderland was once known as 'the largest shipbuilding town in the world' and once made a quarter of all of the world's ships from its famous yards, which date back to 1346 on the River Wear. The centre of the modern city is an amalgamation of three settlements founded in the Anglo-Saxon era: Monkwearmouth, on the north bank of the Wear, and Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth on the south bank. Monkwearmouth contains St Peter's Church, which was founded in 674 and formed part of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey, a significant centre of learning in the seventh and eighth centuries. Sunderland was a fishing settlement and later a port, being granted a ...
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Guiseley A
Guiseley ( ) is an area in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Otley and Menston and is now a north-western suburb of Leeds. It sits in the Guiseley and Rawdon ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds North West parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census, Guiseley with Rawdon had a population of over 21,000, increasing to 22,347 at the 2011 Census. The A65 Otley Road, which passes through the town, is the main shopping street. Guiseley railway station has regular train services into Leeds, Bradford and Ilkley stations on the Wharfedale Line. Etymology The name of Guiseley is first attested in an eleventh-century copy of a charter from around 972, as ''Gislicleh''; it next appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Gisele'' and similar variants. The early spelling suggests that the first element of the name is an Old English personal name ''Gīslic''. No such n ...
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EFL Trophy
The English Football League Trophy, officially known as the Vertu Motors, Vertu Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is an annual English association football, football knockout competition open to all clubs in EFL League One and EFL League Two and Professional Development League, U-21 teams from the Premier League and the EFL Championship. Launched in the 1981–82 in English football, 1981–82 football season as the Football League Group Cup, it was a replacement for the Anglo-Scottish Cup, which had been discontinued after the withdrawal of Scottish League clubs. It reconstituted as Associate Members' Cup during the 1983–84 in English football, 1983–84 season. The competition was renamed the Football League Trophy in 1992 after a reorganisation following the formation of the Premier League and again as the current ''EFL Trophy'' in 2016 due to The Football League changing its name to the English Football League. The current competition begins with 16 regional groups, each co ...
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