史達福特城

史達福特城

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Wikipedia - Stafford Town F.C.

Stafford Town Football Club is an English football club based in Stafford. The club's senior men's team play in the North West Counties League Division One South. Their nearest rivals are fellow Stafford clubs Stafford Rangers and Brocton.

History

The club was founded in 1976 as Stafford and joined the Midland Combination Division two for the 1977–78 season, winning the league at their second attempt. They changed their name to Stafford Town in 1981 and left the Midlands Combination the following year before entering local football in 1984 when they became a founder member of the Staffordshire Senior League. They remained in that competition until 1993 and for two of those seasons the club was known as Stafford MSHD following the merger with Sunday League team MSHD. They joined the West Midlands Regional League for the 1993–94 season and won Division One in their debut season, earning them promotion to the Premier Division. They were champions of the Premier Division in 1999–2000 and earned promotion to the Midland Football Alliance and in their debut season at that level they reached the 3rd Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, going down 3–1 to Harrow Borough in a replay having achieved a 0–0 draw at Harrow's ground. The club finished bottom in 2003–04 and were relegated back to the West Midlands Regional Alliance Division One, getting back into the Premier Division in 2009–10 as runners-up, losing the title on goal difference.

The team transferred to the Midland Football Combination Premier Division at the beginning of the 2012–13 season, for which the club appointed Adam Cunningham from Stone Old Alleynians as manager after Steve Dockerty had resigned.

Cunningham left the team in May 2016, after winning the Les James Challenge League Cup. Dave Downing was then appointed as manager in the summer of 2016.

Downing departed the club in February 2018 with the club rooted to the bottom of the division. Jake Robinson and Paul Snape took the helm and guided the club to what was believed to be safety in a 20th-place finish. The club fell foul to the restructure of step 6 and 5 and were relegated to the Staffordshire Senior League Premier. During close season Snape departed leaving Robinson working alongside long term club servant Calvin Bailey to rebuild the squad and adapt to a new division. Robinson, assisted by Bailey and Luke Williams then led Stafford to a top 5 finish the following season, and a League Cup win over Leek CSOB, prompting a return to the Midland Football League Division One ahead of the 2019-20 campaign.

Following a disappointing 2019-20 campaign which saw Town rock bottom before the league was abandoned due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Jake Robinson was replaced as manager.

Steve Barrow and Dominic Heath were appointed as joint managers ahead of the 2020–21 season.

The 2020-21 season was again cut short due to the COVID-19 outbreak at the end of 2020. Ahead of the 2021-22 season, the club was moved sideways to the North West Counties League Division One South.

In 2022, many managerial problems came as Steve Barrow and Dominic Heath resigned as managers of the club, after winning 2 games from 10, they left the job as managers after 2 and a half years at the job. Recently after the departure of Steve Barrow and Dominic stepping down as manager, the appointment of Anthony Malbon was made successful, but only after 27 days of taking charge of Stafford Town, he decided it was wrong place, wrong time and stepped down as manager just shortly after arriving. Stafford Town then appointed Adam Wall as manager of the first team assisted by Bill Bickley.

史達福特城足球俱樂部(英語:Stafford Rangers Football Club)是位於英格蘭西米德蘭茲郡斯塔福德郡斯塔福德的一家職業足球俱樂部,目前在英格蘭足球議會北部聯賽作賽。球隊主場名為馬arshall Street。史達福特城雖然只是一家非聯賽球隊,但他們在足總盃曾有過輝煌的表現。在1972年1月8日的足總盃第三輪比賽中,史達福特城3-0擊敗了當時的豪門球隊曼聯隊,其中球員Delroy Facey打入了一個精彩的進球,這個進球被認為是足總盃歷史上的經典進球之一。