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Bottesford Town F.C.
Bottesford Town Football Club is a football club based in Bottesford, Lincolnshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Birch Park in Scunthorpe. History The club were established in 1974 and joined the Lincolnshire League.History Bottesford Town F.C. In 1977–78 they finished bottom of the Premier Division, but were not relegated as it was expanded from 14 to 16 clubs. Non-League Matters However, after finishing second-from-bottom the following season, they were relegated to Division One. In 1987 the league was reduced to a single division, which the club became members of. In 1986–87 they won the League Cup, a feat they repeated in 1988–89 and 1989–90. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe () is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln, England, Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement of the North Lincolnshire district. Scunthorpe lies north of Lincoln and is between Grimsby to the east and Doncaster to the west, while Kingston upon Hull, Hull is to the north-east via the Humber Bridge. Etymology The town appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as , which is from the Old Norse language, Old Norse meaning "Skuma's homestead", a site which is believed to be in the town centre, close to Market Hill. Today Skuma’s homestead means ‘A secondary settlement, a dependent outlying farmstead or hamlet’. History Scunthorpe as a town came into existence due to the exploitation of the local ironstone which began in 1859; iron production commenced in 1864, Scunthorpe Steelworks, steel smelting in 1891. Scunthorpe's populat ... [...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 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. 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 and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bottesford, Lincolnshire
Bottesford is a town in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Historically a village, Bottesford forms a contiguous urban area of Scunthorpe. In the 2001 Census, Bottesford's population was recorded as 11,171, falling to 11,038 at the 2011 census. The town is directly south of Scunthorpe, west of Brigg and north of Gainsborough and Kirton in Lindsey. History and landmarks Bottesford is written in ''Domesday'' as "Budlesford", and until the 20th century it was a small farming village. Yaddlethorpe appears in ''Domesday'' as "Laudltorp". The Grade I listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula. The church is Early English style and cruciform in plan, built on the site of an earlier Saxon church."Bottesford" |
Lincolnshire Football League
The Lincolnshire Football League is an English football league. The league has one division, which stands at level 11 of the English football league system). History The League runs a representative side that compete in the FA Inter League Cup. In their first venture into the competition, they reached the quarter-final stage where they lost to the Cheshire League. In the 2012–13 campaign, they also lost in the quarter-finals to the Humber Premier League. In May 2017 the Lincolnshire League became a member of the English football league system and initially National League System (NLS) following the FA elevating it to Step 7 status (level 11 overall), which was abolished in 2020 and the league redesignated as an NLS feeder, subject to the league champions having the necessary ground grading and desire to do so. Clubs had, in recent years, moved up to the Northern Counties East Football League, Central Midlands League and the United Counties League. Member clubs (2024–25) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Midlands Football League
The Central Midlands Alliance is an English football league covering the northeast-central part of England. Formed in 1971 as the South Derbyshire League, changing name initially to the Derbyshire League before changing to the Central Midlands League in 1983, it covers parts of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and Staffordshire, although Sheffield-based teams play in the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Football League. The league's current sponsor is Abacus Lighting. Upon merging with the Midland Regional Alliance in 2023, the current name was adopted. The number of divisions has varied over time as follows *1983–84: Premier, Premier First, Senior and First *1984–85 to 1985–86: Premier, Central, Senior and First *1986–87 to 1987–88: Supreme, Premier, First and Second *1988–89 to 1990–91: Supreme, Premier and First *1991–92: Supreme, Premier North and Premier South *1992–93 to 2010–11: Supreme and Premier *2011–12 to 2012–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 Northern Counties East Football League
The 2015–16 Northern Counties East Football League season was the 34th in the history of the Northern Counties East Football League, a football competition in England. For the first time, a series of Division 1 play-offs will decide a third promotion winner to the Premier Division. Premier Division The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs. *Clubs promoted from Division One: **Clipstone ** Pontefract Collieries *Clubs relegated from the Northern Premier League: **Brigg Town ** Rainworth Miners Welfare League table Results Stadia and locations Division One Division One featured 19 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with three new clubs: * Glasshoughton Welfare, relegated from the Premier Division * Hull United, promoted from the Humber Premier League * Westella & Willerby, promoted from the Central Midlands Football League League table Play-offs Semi-finals Final Results Stadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallam F
Hallam may refer to: Places * Hallam, Victoria, Australia ** Hallam railway station UK * Hallamshire, an area in South Yorkshire, England, UK ** Royal Hallamshire Hospital ** Sheffield Hallam (UK Parliament constituency) ** Sheffield Hallam University ** Hallam Tower, a high rise building in the Fulwood area of Sheffield ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Hallam * West Hallam in Derbyshire, England, UK ** West Hallam railway station * Hallam Street, Marylebone, London, England, UK USA * Hallam, Nebraska, United States ** Hallam Nuclear Power Facility, a nuclear reactor * Hallam, Pennsylvania, United States Other uses * Hallam (surname) * Reuben Hallam, author, who wrote in the Sheffield dialect * Hallam F.C. - a non-league football club in Sheffield * Hallam FM Hits Radio South Yorkshire, formerly Hallam FM, is an Independent Local Radio station based in Sheffield, England, owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during the 1871–72 FA Cup, 1871–72 season, it is the list of oldest football competitions, oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after the Football Association (the FA). A concurrent Women's FA Cup has been held since 1970. The competition is open to all eligible football club (association football), clubs down to level 9 of the English football league system, with level 10 clubs acting as stand-ins in the event of non-entries from above. A record 763 clubs competed in 2011–12 FA Cup, 2011–12. The tournament consists of 12 randomly drawn rounds followed by FA Cup semi-finals, the semi-finals and the FA Cup Final, final. Entrants are not seed (sports), seeded, although a system of Bye (sports), by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bromsgrove Sporting F
Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about north-east of Worcester and south-west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 34,755 in at the 2021 census. It gives its name to the wider Bromsgrove District, of which it is the largest town and administrative centre. In the Middle Ages, it was a small market town, primarily producing cloth through the early modern period. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it became a major centre for nail making. History Anglo-Saxon Bromsgrove is first documented in the early ninth century as Bremesgraf. An ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' entry for 909 AD mentions a ''Bremesburh''; possibly also referring to Bromsgrove. The Domesday Book of 1086 references ''Bremesgrave''. The name means ''Bremi's grove''. The grove element may refer to the supply of wood to Droitwich for the salt pans. During the Anglo-Saxon period the Bromsgrove area had a woodland economy; including hunting, maintenance of haies and pig farming. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Gough School
Frederick Gough School is a community secondary school in Scunthorpe, England, for approximately 1,300 pupils aged from 11 to 16. History Grammar school For two years, before it opened, the selected group of 110 were taught at Riddings Secondary School. The Ashby Grammar School (AGS) school badge was designed by the Art mistress, Miss M Balmford, in navy and light blue, with a Knights Templar motif; the Knights Templars was connected to Bottesford, Lincolnshire. It would cost £186,000 in 1958. Lindsey Education Committee wanted to call it Bottesford Grammar School, and the Scunthorpe education divisional body wanted to call it Queen's Grammar School, there would be 17 teachers, and construction would be finished by June 1960. There would be about 350, on the roll, from ages 11–14, with laboratories for physics, chemistry and biology. A sixth form would be in place by 1962. The school was built by R M Phillips & Sons of Brigg, with bricks from Crowle Works. The headteacher w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FA Vase
The Football Association Challenge Vase, also known as the Isuzu FA Vase for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football competition run by and named after The Football Association (The FA), for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System. Nearly 600 teams participate in this knockout competition with semi-finals played over two legs. The final is played at Wembley Stadium. The 2025 winners were Whitstable Town, who beat AFC Whyteleafe 2–1 at Wembley Stadium. History Until 1974, football players were categorised as either professionals or amateurs. Amateurs were not paid (at least not officially) by their clubs; amateur clubs had their own national cup competition, the FA Amateur Cup. Professionals were paid to play by their clubs; until the creation of the FA Trophy in 1969 there was no national knock-out competition specifically for professional clubs outside the Football League. In 1974, with many of the top amateur players receiving paym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
