Truro City F.C.
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| Full name | Truro City Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | City, White Tigers, The Tinmen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1889 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Treyew Road, Truro (Capacity 3,500 (1260 seats)) |
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| Chairman | Kevin Heaney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Chris Webb (caretaker) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Southern League Division One South and West | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | Western League Premier Division, 1st {promoted) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Truro City F.C. are a football club based in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951 and won the title five times in their history. Apart from a three season spell in the 1970s, when they played in the Cornwall Combination after losing their ground as part of a by-pass development, they remained in the South Western League until 2006, when they joined the Western Football League, achieving promotion from Division One to the Premier Division in their first season.
The club's Chairman Kevin Heaney owns a housing company and has attracted many players from higher leagues, and has stated that his goal for Truro City is to become Cornwall's representative in the Football League[1].
Truro were FA Cup regulars through the 1950s, but have been sporadic entrants since and returned to the competition for the 2006-07 season for the first time in 13 years.
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[edit] History
In 1889 Truro City became one of the founding members of the Cornwall County FA (CCFA). Later in 1889, they played their first game at Truro College against Penzance, winning 7-1. They then switched to Tolgarrick for their future games. Six years later in 1895, they won their first trophy, the Cornwall Senior Cup, beating Launceston 5-0.
In the 1930s Truro left Cornish football for a time, joining the Plymouth and District League, which they went on to win in 1936-37, however as a result of this switch, they were barred from competing the Cornwall Senior Cup, although they were re-admitted again in 1938.
They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, but stumbled in the initial years, requiring re-election in both of their first two seasons to remain in the division. However, they have won the championship five times since, and have only been out of the division for three seasons when they lost their ground due to road widening.
In the 2005-06 season, they finished runners-up in the South Western League and were promoted to the Western League Division One, becoming champions at the first attempt. They also won the 2006-07 FA Vase, beating AFC Totton 3-1 in the final, held at the new Wembley Stadium in front of 27,754 fans (an FA Vase record), becoming the first Cornish football club to win a national trophy.
In their first season in the Western League Premier Division, Truro gained promotion to the Southern League at the first attempt, and will become the first Cornish side ever to play in the Southern League, they are now only 4 promotions from the Football League. They were faced with the longest travelling mileage of any club at their level due to the prevalence of Wiltshire-based clubs in the Western League. Truro are currently the only Cornish club playing in the top ten levels of the English football league system.
Towards the end of the 2007-08 season, after the club's promotion to the Southern League was earned, chairman Kevin Heaney issued a statement reversing an earlier decision to turn the club fully professional for the following season,[2] which led to the resignation of boss Dave Leonard[3]. For the remainder of the season, Director of Football Chris Webb took charge, assisted by former boss Dave Newton.[4]
[edit] Stadium
Truro City are currently based at Treyew Road, they moved to their current home in the mid 1950s. A covered terrace was in place behind one of the goals until the mid 1970s when a road widening scheme resulted in it being removed. Only in recent years have they added to their old stand and erected two new stands on opposite sides of the ground lifting the capacity to approximately 3,000. The club has plans to build new facilities at a new site to the north of the city at Pencoose Farm, Kenwyn[5] which will include a 16,000[6] all seater stadium, sports bar, training facilities and a youth academy.
[edit] Achievements
- FA Vase
- Winners: (1): 2006-07
- Western League Premier Division:
- Winners: (1): 2007-08
- Western League Division One:
- Winners: (1): 2006-07
- South Western League:
- Winners (5): 1960-61, 1969-70, 1992-93, 1995-96, 1997-98
- Runners-up (7): 1954-55, 1962-63, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1970-71, 1996-97, 2005-06
- South Western League Cup:
- Winners (3): 1959-60, 1966-67 (Joint), 1992-93
- Runners-up (6): 1954-55, 1958-59, 1967-68, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1997-98
- Cornwall Senior Cup:
- Winners (15): 1894-95, 1901-02, 1902-03, 1910-11, 1923-24, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1937-38, 1958-59, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1994-95, 1997-98, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08
- Durning Lawrence Cornwall Charity Cup:
- Winners (11): 1911-12, 1912-13, 1919-20, 1925-26, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1932-33, 1949-50, 1964-65, 1980-81
- Runners-up (9): 1905-06, 1909-10, 1910-11, 1913-14, 1924-25, 1937-38, 1957-58, 1966-67, 2002-03
[edit] Records
- Best FA Cup performance: 2nd Qualifying round 5 times (1957-58, 1959-60, 1972-73, 1992-93, 2007-08)
- Best FA Vase performance: Winners (2006-07)
- Most League goals in a season (by team): 185 (2006-07, Western Football League Division One, 42 games)
- Most League points in a season: 115 (2006-07, Western Football League Division One, 42 games)
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Truro City at the Football Club History Database
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Cornwall on the march", observer.guardian.co.uk, 2007-05-13.
- ^ "TCFC OFFICIAL STATEMENT", trurocityfc.co.uk, 2008-04-16.
- ^ "LEONARD QUITS", thisiscornwall.co.uk, 2008-04-17.
- ^ "Truro City boss Leonard resigns", bbc.co.uk, 2008-04-18.
- ^ "HEANEY UNVEILS £6m NEXT STEP IN CITY SOCCER REVOLUTION", trurocityfc.co.uk, 2007-05-18.
- ^ "Heaney's Truro ambition", thefa.com, 2007-05-13.
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