But unlike Mansion of Happiness and The Game of Life, players spiraled their way toward the center of the corporate web, gaining promotion until the winner became head of the corporation.
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Old Wesley RFC were crowned AIL Division 3 Champions 2008/2009 following a 30 - 12 victory over Corinthians, gaining promotion to AIL Division 2. Old Wesley RFC won AIL Division 2A in the 2014/2015 season, gaining promotion to Division 1B.
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In 1948, the league was reunited in one group of sixteen teams with the top-two clubs gaining promotion. The 1949–50 season was run on fourteen clubs with the top-five clubs gaining promotion to the new 2. Oberliga Süd.
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The club won Division Two of the National Football League in 2014 gaining promotion to the Division One.
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The 2018–19 season was Macclesfield Town's first season back in League Two after gaining promotion the season before.
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Buggy rose to the position of vice- chairman before gaining promotion to the position of chairman between 1978 and 1980.
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FC Schaffhausen won the 2003–04 Swiss Challenge League, gaining promotion to the Swiss Super League for the following season.
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Lig before gaining promotion to the newly created 2. Lig. The 2. Lig became the 1. Lig and the 1.
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2015, taking part in the 11th Group where it took the first place, thus gaining promotion to the 3rd National Amateur category.
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The remained at this level until successfully gaining promotion to Championnat National as winners of their group in the 2017–18 season.
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Despite gaining promotion during his spell with Woking, prior to the 2019–20 campaign, Durojaiye opted to return to Haringey Borough once more.
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The club was established in 2013, out of the reserves of AFC Porth, initially playing in the Rhondda & District League. They joined the South Wales Alliance League in the 2016–17 season, finishing as runners-up and gaining promotion to Division One. In the subsequent 2017–18 season they finished third in Division One, gaining promotion to the Premier Division.
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The team play in the Premier League 2 Division 1, after gaining promotion from the Premier League 2 Division 2 in the 2017/18 season.
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After his contract with Cesena expired, Comotto signed a deal with Perugia, winning his first Lega Pro championship and gaining promotion to 2014–15 Serie B.
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Club Deportivo Clan Juvenil is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Sangolquí. They currently play in the Serie A after gaining promotion from the Serie B.
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James, Manchester City - The Complete Record, p. 116. The club won the Second Division championship in the 1927/28 following season, gaining promotion to the top flight.
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The 2015–16 season is MFK Zemplín Michalovce's first season in the Fortuna Liga after gaining promotion in the previous season in their 103rd year in existence.
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Waring made his youth debut in 2015 after gaining promotion from the under 20 team under John Aloisi. Waring won the 2016/2017 National Youth League Golden Boot.
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The 2013 V-Varen Nagasaki season is V-Varen Nagasaki's first season in the J. League Division 2 after winning the 2012 Japan Football League and gaining promotion.
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Wefaq Sabratha won the Play-Off on goal difference from Al Sawa'ed, therefore gaining promotion to the 2008–09 Libyan Premier League, and so Al Tahaddy were relegated.
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In the league 1991–92 and 1995–96 the club won the regional Eccellenza Liguria gaining promotion to Serie D and the 1995–96 Regional Coppa Italia Liguria:.
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Playing in Premier Two in 2004, Glastonbury finished top of their league for the third successive season, gaining promotion to the West of England Premier League Premier One division.
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Stoke lost at the first attempt against Leeds United but it was seen as a blessing in disguise by the management as they wanted to concentrate on gaining promotion.
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Worcester Raiders were formed in 2001 as a youth club, joining the Worcester & District Football League in 2009 upon the formation of a senior side. In 2013, Worcester Raiders joined the West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two, gaining promotion in their first season in the league system. In 2019, Worcester Raiders won Division One, gaining promotion to the Premier Division. Worcester Raiders entered the FA Vase for the first time in 2020–21.
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In 1964 a team was once again formed. Since the 1990s the club has spent most of its time in the second division, never gaining promotion to the first league.
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The club was founded on June 23, 1959. Palmeira finished in the second place in the Campeonato Potiguar Second Level in 2010, thus gaining promotion to the following year's first level.
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The 1962–63 season was Mansfield Town's 25th season in the Football League and 3rd in the Fourth Division, they finished in 4th position with 57 points, gaining promotion on goal average.
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On 17 June 2019, after gaining promotion to the Premier League, Aston Villa announced that they had taken up the option to permanently transfer Hause. The transfer fee was reported as £3m.
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The club was founded on July 13, 2007. Paraíba won the Campeonato Paraibano Second Level in 2011, finishing ahead of Flamengo Paraibano, thus gaining promotion to the 2012 Campeonato Paraibano First Level.
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It followed that up by winning the Scottish National League Division Three title in the 2015–16 season and gaining promotion to the Scottish National League Division Two in the 2016–17 season.
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Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday all achieved some long-awaited success by gaining promotion from the Third Division. Bury, Southend United, Mansfield Town and Wimbledon occupied the Third Division's relegation places.
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NK Trnje won the 2000-01 Treća HNL championship by six points, gaining promotion to the 2. HNL. However they finished 15th in their only season in the second division and were relegated.
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He moved on to Grimsby Town, gaining promotion to the Third Division, and had a largely unsuccessful eleven months in charge at Derby County, before returning to his home town to manage Hereford United.
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The 1985–86 season was Mansfield Town's 49th season in the Football League and 12th in the Fourth Division they finished in 3rd position with 81 points, gaining promotion back to the Third Division.
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During the 2001–02 English football season, Mansfield Town Football Club competed in the Football League Third Division where they finished in 3rd position with 79 points, gaining promotion to the Football League Second Division.
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Preston has faced serious financial issues and was twice in danger of closure. The club is now owned by businessman Trevor Hemmings and has been established in the EFL Championship since gaining promotion in 2015.
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In the second tier, the Ulster Senior Hurling Shield, Donegal, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone compete in a knock-out format, with the winner gaining promotion to the first tier for 2019. Cavan do not participate.
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The 1938 Suomensarja was contested by 26 teams divided into 4 regional sections. The top teams from each section then participated in a promotion play-offs with Reipas Viipuri eventually gaining promotion andfinishing as champions.
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Peacock signed for League One side Sheffield Wednesday in the summer of 2004, on a free transfer. He became an integral part of the 2004–05 play-off winning side, gaining promotion to the Championship.
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In the second tier, the Ulster Senior Hurling Shield, Derry, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone compete in a knock-out format, with the winner gaining promotion to the top tier for 2018. Cavan do not participate.
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In 2010 for the first time in the club's history, the team was relegated to the Azadegan League for the 2010–2011 season. Fajr quickly rebounded gaining promotion to the Iran Pro League in 2011.
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Juventus Idrottsförening (Juventus Athletic Association) was formed in 1948 in by Italians who came to Sweden during the 1940s, and the name referred to Juventus FC from Torino in Italy. Their biggest sporting success came under the management team headed by chairman Franco Pertunaj. In 2008 Juventus IF won the "triple" by gaining promotion to Division 4, winning the VLT Cup and also winning the DM (district championship) in Futsal. In 2011 another significant achievement was made by gaining promotion via the play-offs to Division 3.
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He helped The Reds finish second in the 2007–08 season in League One, gaining promotion to the Championship. With The Reds gaining promotion, manager Colin Calderwood has commented that he will be given the chance to impress next season after Forest's promotion to the Championship in the upcoming 2008–09 campaign. On 16 October, he joined Conference Premier club Mansfield Town on loan, scoring on his debut against Wrexham. His impressive display at the club soon led Mansfield Town extending his loan until 17 January 2009.
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Baloch Nushki Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Nushki, Balochistan. It competes in Pakistan Premier League, playing the current season after gaining promotion from 2014-15 Pakistan Football Federation League.
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In April 2018 he signed for Botafogo-SP to compete in 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C. After gaining promotion at the end of the season, he renewed his contract with Botafogo-SP for a further year.
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In 2016 Kerry, in spite of being based in the province of Munster, joined the Leinster Championship after gaining promotion following victory in the Christy Ring Cup. They remained in the province for two championship seasons.
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The club was founded on April 20, 2009. They finished in the second position in the Campeonato Sergipano Série A2 in 2011, losing the league to Sete de Junho, thus gaining promotion to the 2012 First Level.
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The club was founded on December 1, 2008. Flamengo Paraibano finished in the second position in the Campeonato Paraibano Second Level in 2011, only behind of Paraíba, thus gaining promotion to the 2012 Campeonato Paraibano First Level.
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The club began in the 1950s in Segunda división, in which they were close to gaining promotion to Primera Division on three occasions. In the season 1962-63, the team was close to gaining promotion in the last week of the tournament. They would have gained promotion by becoming champions against Orizaba but the ended up losing the match. This loss combined with the victory of Cruz Azul against Real Zamora caused the team to have to play in the promotional tournament against Nacional, Petroleros de Ciudad Madero, and Veracruz.
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He remained at VSNKh throughout most of the decade, gaining promotion to vice-chairman of the Council on July 14, 1928. After signing the contract for technical assistance in building the Nizhnii Novgorod (Gorky) Automobile Plant. Dearborn, Mich.
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The league was contested by 48 teams in 3 divisions with C.S. Marítimo, C.D. Feirense and G.D. Riopele winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga. The overall championship was won by C.S. Marítimo.
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The league was contested by 48 teams in 3 divisions with C.S. Marítimo, Varzim S.C. and G.C. Alcobaça winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga. The overall championship was won by C.S. Marítimo.
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At the end of the 2009 season, Kingston Cannons merged with Christian United to form Southern FC. In 2013 they won the Southern League 1 title and were runners up in 2014 gaining promotion into the Southern Championship.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with União da Madeira, Feirense and Tirsense winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga. The overall championship was won by União da Madeira.
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The league was contested by 60 teams in 3 divisions with SC Covilhã, FC Marco and União Funchal winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by SC Covilhã.
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The league was contested by 59 teams in 3 divisions with SC Espinho, Gondomar SC and SC Olhanense winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by SC Espinho.
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The league was contested by 59 teams in 3 divisions with SC Covilhã, FC Vizela and FC Barreirense winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by FC Vizela.
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The league was contested by 59 teams in 3 divisions with UD Oliveirense, Moreirense FC and Portimonense SC winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by Moreirense FC.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with SC Covilhã, SC Freamunde and Imortal DC winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by SC Freamunde.
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The league was contested by 58 teams in 3 divisions with AD Ovarense, FC Marco and Nacional Funchal winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by FC Marco.
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This article details the Bradford Bulls rugby league football club's 2019 season. This is the Bulls 1st season back in the Championship after gaining promotion from League 1 by beating Workington Town 27-8 in the play off final.
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Later he coached several amateur clubs. In 2019 it was a real breakthrough when coaching VPK-Ahro from small town of Mahdalynivka he became a head coach of the Second League group champions gaining promotion to the First League.
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The club's football team plays in the Torneo Argentino A, the regionalized 3rd level of Argentine football. Club's most important achievement has been gaining promotion to the Argentino A during the 2006–07 season of the Torneo Argentino B.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with SCU Torreense, FC Maia and CD Nacional winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by FC Maia.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with SC Salgueiros, Gil Vicente FC and SC Farense winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga. The overall championship was won by SC Salgueiros.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with CD Feirense, União Lamas and Amora FC winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by Amora FC.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with Académico Viseu, Moreirense FC and FC Alverca winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by Moreirense FC.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with SC Covilhã, Varzim SC and CD Beja winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by Varzim SC.
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With priorities on gaining promotion Gudjon decided to play a second string side against Blackpool giving debuts to some of the club's best academy players most notably Andy Wilkinson. They gave a decent account of themselves losing 3–2.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with SC Campomaiorense, FC Felgueiras and Amora FC winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by SC Campomaiorense.
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The league was contested by 53 teams in 3 divisions with Académico Viseu, Leça FC and Portimonense SC winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by Leça FC.
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The league was contested by 59 teams in 3 divisions with CD Feirense, Leixões SC and GD Estoril Praia winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by Leixões SC.
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The 1996–97 season saw Oxford looking hopeful of gaining promotion to the Premier League, but the squad lacked the strength to make their form consistent and they finished seventeenth, following the sale of star defender Matt Elliott to Leicester City.
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Huddersfield Town and Portsmouth finally achieved some success by gaining promotion from the Fourth Division. Newport County achieved their first promotion since 1939 and Walsall were also promoted. Rochdale finished bottom but survived re-election by one vote ahead of Altrincham.
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They spent the following four years in the third tier of Serbian football, before placing first and gaining promotion to the Serbian First League in 2013. However, the club suffered relegation back to the Serbian League Vojvodina after just one season.
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The 1937 Suomensarja was contested by 13 teams divided into 2 regional sections. The top teams from each section then participated in a promotion play-offs with KPT Kuopio and VPS Vaasa eventually gaining promotion with the former finishing as champions.
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Guayaquil City F.C. (known as C.D. River Ecuador until 2017) is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Guayaquil. They currently play in the country's first-level football league—the Serie A—after gaining promotion from the segunda-level Primera Categoria.
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Lig for nine years before gaining promotion back to the 1. Lig for the first time since the 1960–61 season. They secured promotion after defeating Uşakspor 2–0, with goals from Fatih Terim and Bektaş Yurttasın.Sivritepe, Erdinç 1972–1973 1.
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The Under 18 and Under 20 British teams also enjoyed success in 2018 with the former gaining promotion to group B of division I in the IIHF World U18 Championship whilst the latter finished third in their respective age category.
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The league was contested by 60 teams in 3 divisions with AD Ovarense, Rio Ave FC and SC Olhanense winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by AD Ovarense.
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The league was contested by 47 teams in 4 divisions with GD Chaves, FC Penafiel, CD Fátima and AD Carregado winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by CD Fátima.
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2011 Sydney Premier Rugby: Round 2 Preview, Waratahs Rugby. 7 April 2011. Lane was appointed as head coach of Lyon OU in 2013, winning the Rugby Pro D2 title with the club and gaining promotion to the French Top 14.
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The league was contested by 54 teams in 3 divisions with Naval 1º Maio, AD Esposende and CD Santa Clara winning the respective divisional competitions and gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by CD Santa Clara.
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For the 2013 season, the league changed from 14 teams to 12, meaning the bottom two teams from the previous season, Sunkar and Okzhetpes, along with Kaisar were relegated to the Kazakhstan First Division with only Vostok, the second place team, gaining promotion.
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The next World Championship in 2007, Australia improved, again gaining promotion to Division II for the next years tournament. Promotion to Division II however was again short as Australia finished last in the 2007 tournament and were relegated back to Division III.
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The five best teams after the tournament's playoffs qualified directly for the 2015 Division One tournament, while the three lowest-placed teams were relegated to the 2014 Division Two tournament, with the winner of that tournament gaining promotion to Division One in 2015.
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The 2017–18 season was Ararat-Moskva's 1st season in existence, in which they finished Third in the First League, gaining promotion to the Armenian Premier League, whilst they were knocked out of the Armenian Cup by Gandzasar Kapan in the Quarter-finals.
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Club Deportivo Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi is a professional Ecuadorian football club based in Latacunga. They currently play in the country's second- level football league--the Serie B--after gaining promotion from the third- level Segunda Categoria, which they won in 2009.
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Furman served in World War I in the Army Chemical Warfare Service. He returned to Princeton in 1919 to become an assistant professor, gaining promotion and tenure in 1937, and finished his career in 1960 as the Russell Wellman Moore professor of chemistry.
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He spent six years at Gillingham, signing for them in October 1996. He played in the Play Off Final at Wembley against Manchester City missing the deciding penalty, but helped the next season by gaining Promotion to second-tier football beating Wigan.
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The 1936 Suomensarja was contested by 13 teams divided into 2 regional sections. The 2 top teams from each section then participated in a promotion play-off group with VIFK Vaasa and UL Turku eventually gaining promotion with the former finishing as champions.
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The club was founded on December 22, 1979. They won the Campeonato Baiano Second Level in 1992 and finishing as runners-up in the competition in 2010, gaining promotion to the 2011 Campeonato Baiano. They competed in the Série B in 1987.
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The club was founded on June 23, 1981. They won the Campeonato Sergipano Série A2 in 2011, after beating Laranjeiras in the last round of the competition, thus finishing ahead of Lagarto in the league, thus gaining promotion to the 2012 First Level.
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The team spent three seasons in Division 4 before finishing third in 1984 and gaining promotion to Welsh National League Wrexham Area Division 2 (formerly Division 3, renamed in 1984 following introduction of Premier Division). Minera stayed in this division until 1990 when they folded.
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In 1991 the club merged with the struggling Oldham college Rugby Union Football Club, maintaining the name of North Manchester. The first XV won North Lancs 2 2013/14 and were undefeated in doing so gaining promotion to North Lancs 1, now called Lancashire (North).
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The league was contested by 47 teams in 3 divisions with FC Arouca, Moreirense FC and União da Madeira winning the respective divisional competitions and the former two teams gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by FC Arouca.
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EHC Olten is a Swiss professional ice hockey team based in Olten, Switzerland. It plays in the Swiss League, the second tier ice hockey league in Switzerland. It has claimed two Swiss League Championships, gaining promotion to the National League in 1985, 1988 and 1993.
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2009 Regional League Division 2 was contested by the five regional league winners of the 3rd level championships of Thailand. Five teams met on a home and away basis, with the top three teams gaining promotion to the Thai 1st Division for the 2010 campaign.
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The league was contested by 48 teams in 3 divisions with Padroense FC, União da Madeira and Atlético CP winning the respective divisional competitions and the latter two teams gaining promotion to the Liga de Honra. The overall championship was won by União da Madeira.
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The 2014 season is Ligi Ndogo Sports Club's first year in the Kenyan National Super League and their fourth consecutive season in the second tier of the Kenyan football league system. The Planets have gone through the lower tiers of the Kenyan football league system and are now one division below the Premier League. The team started in the Nationwide League's Second Division in 2006 before gaining promotion to the First Division in 2007, where they remained until 2013 (the league has since been changed to FKF Division One). During that season, the team finished the season in fourth place, gaining promotion to the newly formed National Super League.
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The club was founded in 1975, ever since the club has been playing in local championships and already won two NRFL Division 1 titles. Forrest Hill Milford reached the Quarter-Final of the 2009 Chatham Cup (New Zealand's premier club knockout competition), where they were beaten by eventual champions Wellington Olympic 4–3. In 2015, Forest Hill won the NRFL Division 1 title, finishing 5 points above 2nd placed Tauranga City United, and gaining promotion to the NRFL Premier. Again in 2019 the club won the NRFL Division 1 title, so gaining promotion to the 2020 NRFL Premier after being relegated from NRFL Premier in 2017.
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County Hall joined the Leicestershire Senior League Championship in the 2016–17 season, finishing fifth. In 2018–19, County Hall finished third in the renamed Division One, gaining promotion to the Premier Division. County Hall entered the FA Vase for the first time in 2019–20.
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Ubong Friday's Akwa Starlets were on the brink of gaining promotion to the NPFL, but were denied the ticket on the last matchday of NNL Group B by Shooting Stars, who pipped them 1–0 at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan on Saturday, 15 November 2014.
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The club finally succeeded in gaining promotion to the first division when they won the Apertura 2017 defeating El Roble de Ilobasco o aggregate, then winning the Clausura title defeating Brujos de Izalco of Izalco 6-3 on aggregate, winning automatic promotion to the primera division.
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The 2012-13 season was Doncaster Rover's 10th consecutive season in The Football League. Doncaster were relegated at the end of the 2011-12 season, ending a four-year stay in the Championship. They finished the season as Champions thus gaining promotion back to the second tier.
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Alianza Universidad played in the Segunda División tournament five seasons from 2012 until 2016. After not much success with gaining promotion the team decided to retire from the tournament and return to the Copa Perú system in 2017 where it will play from the Departamental Stage.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with SC Campomaiorense winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with Varzim SC and Académica Coimbra. At the other end of the table SC Covilhã, CD Beja and FC Tirsense were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with SC Espinho winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Divisão along with Os Belenenses and FC Tirsense. At the other end of the table Académico Viseu, Portimonense SC and SC Olhanense were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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"Ipswich Town 0–1 Norwich City" BBC Sport. 23 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014. He went on to score 13 goals in 44 games for the club, the first 12 of which played an integral part in the club gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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The 2018–19 season is K-Electric's 105th competitive season, 105th consecutive season in the top flight of Pakistani football, 10th consecutive season in the Pakistan Premier League since gaining promotion from Football Federation League in 2006 and 105th year in existence as a football club.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with Leça FC winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with SC Campomaiorense and FC Felgueiras. At the other end of the table Portimonense SC, Amora FC and SCU Torreense were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with FC Tirsense winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Divisão along with UD Leiria and GD Chaves. At the other end of the table Académico Viseu, Louletano DC and Leixões SC were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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Gaining promotion to air marshal in 1955 he then retired from the RCAF at Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's request to serve in the senior civil service position of Deputy Minister of National Defence, remaining in post until 1957. He then became Deputy Commander-in-Chief NORAD.
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Petković started his career at Bokelj. After gaining promotion with them in 2014, he signed with FK Zeta. After one season with Zeta, he joined Lovćen on a two-year contract. On 29 August 2016, Petković signed a three-year contract with the Hungarian team MTK Budapest.
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Killyman St. Mary's is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAC) based in the parish of Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. They were Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship winners in 2007. They also won the Tyrone Junior Football Championship in 2010 gaining promotion to division 2 in the process.
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Group B's games were played in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Norway and Italy finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to the Championship Division for 2006. While China finished last in Group A and Romania last in Group B and were relegated to Division II for 2006.
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In January 2016, after being out of contract since his injury at Mainz, he joined SSV Ulm 1846, where he played for two seasons. In his first season, they won the fifth-tier 2015–16 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, gaining promotion to the fourth-tier Regionalliga for the following season.
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The Reserves were managed by long serving player Matty Peters, who took over when the team dropped down to the Clwyd Premier. The Veterans team joined the Cheshire Vets League in 2005/06. In their first season they clinched the Division 1 title gaining promotion to the Premier Division.
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The 2010–11 season was Brighton & Hove Albion's fourth consecutive season in the League One. It was their last season at the Withdean Stadium before moving to Falmer Stadium. Brighton won League One in this season, gaining promotion to the Football League Championship for the 2011–12 season.
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The 1908–09 season was the 21st season of The Football League. Tottenham Hotspur played their first ever season in the Football League, gaining promotion to the First Division in the process. Spurs, along with Bradford Park Avenue entered the Second Division to replace Lincoln City and Stoke.
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In recent years, the club has played in the Gwent County League, where in the 2017–18 season they finished champions in Division Three, gaining promotion to Division Two. The league was renamed as Division One and the club were crowned winners of the league in 2019–20.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with SC Beira-Mar winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with CD Aves. At the other end of the table SC Covilhã, FC Barreirense, FC Marco, AD Ovarense and FC Maia were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with UD Leiria winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with SC Beira-Mar and FC Alverca. At the other end of the table Académico Viseu, SCU Torreense and Nacional Funchal were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with Rio Ave FC winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with Vitória Setúbal and SC Espinho. At the other end of the table Nacional Funchal, FC Famalicão and AD Ovarense were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with Estrela Amadora winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Divisão along with União Funchal and Vitória Setúbal. At the other end of the table CD Feirense, Amora FC and Benfica Castelo Branco were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with CD Santa Clara winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with Varzim SC and Vitória Setúbal. At the other end of the table Imortal DC, FC Marco and SC Freamunde were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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Shahrdari Yasuj Football Club was founded in 2009, in their first year the team placed second in their grouping, gaining promotion to the Azadegan League. In 2012, they historically beat Iran Pro League side Mes Kerman 4–1 in the Hazfi Cup to advance to the round of 16.
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Group B's games were played in Tallinn, Estonia. Germany and Austria finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to the 2007 World Championship. While Israel finished last in Group A and Croatia last in Group B and were relegated to Division II for 2007.
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After a number of seasons where the club finished at the top part of the table, in 2006–07, they were champions of Division One, gaining promotion to the Welsh Football League. At the end of the 2010–11 season they finished as runners-up in Division Two, gaining promotion to Division One. In 2011 they received an undisclosed percentage of the proceeds from the Stereophonics pre-Christmas gigs. The club then had three successive seasons when they were relegated, finishing 14th (of 16 teams) in their only season in Division One, followed by finishing bottom of Division Two the following season and second from bottom of the Division Three, and hence left the Weish League.
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AFC Hinksey started life as a pub team when The Shelley Arms F.C. were formed in the 2006–07 season, by Gavin Preston. The team was entered into the RT Harris Football League, made up of teams from within the City of Oxford. The first season saw The Shelley Arms complete an historic treble which included the Doug Hobbs Cup, the RT Harris Senior Cup and the RT Harris First Division, gaining promotion to the Premier Division of The RT Harris Football League. The second season saw another treble in the bag with the RTH Premier Cup, retaining RTH Senior Cup and winning the RT Harris Premier Division, and in the process gaining promotion to the Oxfordshire Senior League.
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The 2017–18 season is U.S. Lecce's sixth consecutive season in Lega Pro after their relegation from Serie A at the end of the 2011–12 season. The club competed in Serie C Gruppo C, gaining promotion to Serie B, in the Coppa Italia and in the Coppa Italia Serie C.
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Kotov took up a position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1996, gaining promotion to Associate Professor in 2001. In 2003 he moved to the University of Michigan where he is now the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Engineering.
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Two years later he was promoted to the rank of Rittmeister before once gaining promotion to the rank Major in 1855. On 12 June 1869 Prince Charles Gonthier was married in Altenburg to Princess Marie Gasparine of Saxe-Altenburg, Duchess of Saxony, the daughter of Prince Eduard of Saxe- Altenburg.
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Group B's games were played in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. Croatia and Israel finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to Division I for 2006. While Turkey finished last in Group A and Iceland last in Group B and were relegated to Division III for 2006.
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After the 2007/08 season, the league system in Poland was reformed. Jeziorak, having won its group of the fourth division, participated in playoffs against Unia Tarnów winning in a penalty shootout and gaining promotion to the new II liga. Jeziorak played at the third level for the following four seasons.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with FC Paços de Ferreira winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with SC Beira-Mar and CD Aves. At the other end of the table Moreirense FC, AD Esposende and SC Covilhã were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with Gil Vicente FC winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with Os Belenenses and CD Santa Clara. At the other end of the table CD Feirense, União Funchal and GD Estoril Praia were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 20 teams with Paços de Ferreira winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Diviasão along with Estoril Praia and Torreense. At the other end of the table O Elvas, Freamunde, Varzim, Maia, Águeda, Lusitano VRSA and Barreirense were relegated to the Segunda Divisão.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with Moreirense FC winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with Académica Coimbra and Nacional Funchal. At the other end of the table SC Espinho and UD Oliveirense were relegated to the Segunda Divisão and SC Campomaiorense abandoned professional football.
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The 2015–16 season is Watford's 135th year in existence and first season back in the Premier League after gaining promotion the previous season. This season Watford participate in the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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Aston Villa ended their two-year spell in the Third Division by gaining promotion as champions, and by the end of the decade would be firmly re-established as a First Division club. Brighton & Hove Albion followed Villa into the Second Division. Mansfield Town, Barnsley, Torquay United and Bradford City were relegated.
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John Duncan helped Chesterfield F.C. win the Division Three playoffs and brought some long-awaited success to Saltergate. Chris Nicholl had a strong first season as Walsall F.C. manager by gaining promotion to Division Two. Barry Fry won the Division Two title with Birmingham City, who were also Auto Windscreen Shield winners.
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Donegal, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone compete in a knock-out format, with the winner gaining promotion to the top tier for 2017. The beaten semi-finalists in this year's Senior Championship compete in a relegation play-off with the losing team relegated to the Senior Shield for 2017. Cavan do not participate.
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Group B's games were played in Auckland, New Zealand. Romania and China finished atop of Group A and Group B respectively, gaining promotion to Division I for 2007. While South Africa finished last in Group A and hosts New Zealand last in Group B and were relegated to Division III for 2007.
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Llansantffraid Village F.C. is a Welsh football club based in Llansantffraid- ym-Mechain, Powys. They currently playing in the Mid Wales Football League East Division. They joined this league after gaining promotion as Champions of the Montgomeryshire Football League in 2008–09.Mid Wales Football League News The home colours are all green.
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Further honours came in 1972 when they won the Darch Cup and the Challenge Cup. A long time without honours came to an end in 1992–93 as the club won the Carmarthenshire League Division 3. In 1998–99 they secured the Carmarthenshire League Division 1 title, gaining promotion to the Premier Division.
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The third and fourth-placed teams in Division 1A joined the first two teams in Division 1B in the quarter-finals. The bottom-placed team in Division 1A was relegated to Division 1B with the Division 1B champion gaining promotion. The bottom- placed team in Division 1B was relegated to Division 2.
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In the league 2009–10, coached by Giancarlo "Carlo" Calabria Sanremese wins the regional Eccellenza Liguria gaining promotion in Serie D. and the Regional Coppa Italia Liguria:. It eliminated in the Coppa Italia Dilettanti 2009-2010 from Bolzano, in the quarter-finals losing for 1–2 at home and equalizing 0–0 away.
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On 30 March 2008 Isola Liri mathematically won the Round G of Serie D, thus gaining promotion to Lega Pro Seconda Divisione and ensuring a historical first time into professional football in the 2008–09 season. In the season 2011–12 it was relegated from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione B to Serie D.
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Bottom two clubs are relegated, to each club's appropriate regional football association league. #Regional FA Leagues (level 3, 60 clubs in 6 regional leagues): Top club in each football association's regional league compete in the promotion playoffs, with the top two teams gaining promotion. Each league has its own promotion and relegation rules.
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1962 - 1963 Season. Blaenavon RFC become Ben Francis Cup Winners against Talywain. The First team now play in the W.R.U. League Division 1 East after gaining promotion in the 2013/14 season, and winning the Ben Francis cup for the second time in 2015 season beating Risca RFC in the final at Blackwood.
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Established in 1976, the club began playing in the Bridgend & District League and were back-to-back Premier Division champions in the 1986–87 and 1987–88 seasons. They were founder members of the South Wales Senior League in the 1991–92 season, playing in the league until 2000. They again played in the Bridgend & District League, winning the Premier Division in 2013–14 and gaining promotion to South Wales Senior League for its final season in 2014–15. They joined the newly established South Wales Alliance League Division Two in 2015–16, and after finishing third in the 2016–17 season, were promoted to Division One, where they finished their first season in the division as champions, gaining promotion to the Premier Division.
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After the disappearance of the team by the Federación Mexicana de Futbol, the franchise was returned to the third division, the team obtained a title in the verano 1997 tournament, gaining promotion to the Primera División "A" where they stayed until the franchise was sold and moved to Coatzacoalcos. The team played in Segunda División Mexicana in the Norte region and a few seasons back was close to gaining promotion to the Primera División A, first losing the final against, Académicos and then losing to Chivas La Piedad. For the Apertura 2007 season they changed stadium to Estadio Municipal Santa Rosa de Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, but have stated that some of their home games will still played at their traditional home in twice worldcup host Estadio Jalisco.
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Boulogne Match Report On January 9, 2011, Westberg started in goal in Évian's 3–1 upset victory over the defending league champions Marseille in the Coupe de France. On 20 May, he was in goal during a 1–2 away victory at Stade de Reims which saw his team gaining promotion to Ligue 1.
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Benas started playing basketball at the ranks of Aris Thessaloniki. At the senior level he begun playing basketball for Galaxias Adendro, an amateur team. He started playing professionally in 2007 when he joined MENT of the Greek A2 League. In 2010 he moved to KAOD, gaining promotion to the Greek Basket League in 2011.
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Brighton & Hove Hockey Club is a field hockey club based in Brighton and Hove, England. The home ground is located at Blatchington Mill. The men's 1st XI play in the England Hockey League, after gaining promotion to the national league for the first time in 2013. The ladies 1st XI play in the South League.
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Bury, Southend United, Mansfield Town and Wimbledon occupied the Third Division's relegation places. Fallen giants Huddersfield Town and Portsmouth finally achieved some success by gaining promotion from the Fourth Division. Newport County achieved their first promotion since 1939 and Walsall were also promoted. Re-election results are given at the end of this article.
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The 2018–19 season is Wigan Athletic's 87th year in existence and their first back in the Championship, after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with competing in the league, the club will also participate in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.
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The 2015–16 season is Norwich City's return to the Premier League after gaining promotion via the play-offs last season in their 113th year in existence. This season Norwich City participate in the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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In April 2014 Ebbw Vale were again crowned champions of the WRU National Championship, this time gaining promotion to the Principality Premiership. They won 25 out of 26 games and amassed another 1000 point season. In the 2015/16 season the club achieved a new height, winning the Premiership title for the first time.
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The J2 team won the J2 section B gaining promotion to J2 section A. In 2014/2015, the J4 team won the Leinster Branch Metro League Division 6 title and won promotion to division 5. The J6 team won the 2016/2017 Leinster Branch Metro League Division 11 title and won promotion to division 10.
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The 2015–16 season was Burton Albion's 66th season in their history and first ever in League One after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with League One, the club also took part in the FA Cup, League Cup and JP Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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And returned in 2018 at last level of the league system, the fifth tier, Tercera B, gaining promotion in their debut season on the category to the next level, the fourth tier Tercera División, for 2019, in which they get a consecutive promotion to the next level, the third tier Segunda División, for 2020.
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The 2016–17 season is Wigan Athletic's 85th year in existence and their first back in the Championship, after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with competing in the Championship, the club will also participate in the FA Cup and League Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
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He returned to the side, replacing Omar Bogle in a 2–0 defeat at Bolton Wanderers on 23 December, before scoring his fourth of the season against Fulham on Boxing Day. The new year saw Zohore score 5 goals, including winners against Bristol City and Ipswich Town. Cardiff finished in 2nd place, gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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However, the club merged with Maccabi Ironi Ashdod, to form F.C. Ashdod. In 2001 a new club, Hapoel Namal Ashdod was established, playing in Liga Gimel. Although the club was initially successful, winning its division and gaining promotion to Liga Bet, at the end of the 2003–04 season, in which it finished fourth, it was disbanded.
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Nišić joined Partizan as a trainee, aged 10. He signed his first professional contract with the club on 13 February 2016, penning a three-year deal. Subsequently, Nišić was assigned to their affiliated side Teleoptik. He helped the team win the Serbian League Belgrade in the 2016–17 season, thus gaining promotion to the Serbian First League.
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After staying in the league for an entire decade, Red Berets, who were only two points behind KCB when they were relegated along with previously promoted Mahakama, disbanded to immense pressure from its sponsors to produce good performances. The two teams had replaced Bandari and Agrochemical, the former gaining promotion once again for the next season.
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29 (1998), 69-80 (p. 69). Meredith moved in 1969 to the English department at the University of Leeds, gaining promotion in 1994 to the Developmental Chair in Medieval Drama, which he held until his retirement around 1998.George W. Turner, 'Portrait of a Friend: Peter Meredith', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), 7-8.
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Nkwazi Football Club is a Zambian football club based in Lusaka. They play in the Zambian Premier League, after gaining promotion from Division One South in 2014. Their home stadium is Edwin Imboela Stadium. The club is sponsored by the Zambia Police Service and has a mix of players that includes Police staff and ordinary citizens.
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The 2016–17 season was Al-Batin's first season in Pro League (and their first ever season in the top-flight) after gaining promotion in the previous season. This season Al-Batin participated in the Pro League, King Cup and Crown Prince Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
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Upon their formation in 2010, Langley were placed into the East Berkshire Football League. Ahead of the 2018–19 season, Langley joined the Hellenic League Division Two East, finishing second and gaining promotion to the Division One East after winning 24 games from a possible 28. Langley entered the FA Vase for the first time in 2019–20.
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In the 2009–10 season, the club won the championship, thus gaining promotion to the fourth level for the first time. The club is affiliated to Associação de Futebol do Porto and has competed in the AF Porto Taça. The club has also entered the national cup competition known as Taça de Portugal on a few occasions.
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He went on to play for Septemvri Sofia, Vihren Sandanski, Orfeas Nicosia (gaining promotion to next division),2007–2008 Cypriot League Standings (All Divisions) The RSSS Foundation. Retrieved 18 March 2010. and Vitosha Bistritsa, with whom he won the Amateur League Cup in 2012.Витоша (Бистрица) с класика над Миньор (БД) (in Bulgarian) Football24 19 Sep 2011.
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From 2004, the team played in the Landesliga (V) for three seasons, after winning the Bavarian Bezirksliga (VI) championship and gaining promotion. In April 2007, it was decided to form a new, semi-professional side, the ESC Kempten and Kotterns ice hockey department joined the new club, ending almost 60 years of tradition at the TSV.
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Kevin Ian Keen (born 25 February 1967) is an English former professional footballer, coach and manager. Keen is currently the coach of West Ham United under-18 team. Keen began his career with Wycombe Wanderers before joining West Ham United in 1983. He spent seven seasons with the "Hammers" twice gaining promotion and twice suffering relegation.
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Michaël Clepkens (born January 30, 1986) is a Belgian professional football goalkeeper currently playing for Knokke. Clepkens started his professional career with Diegem and Racing Mechelen in the Belgian Third Division, before signing with Belgian Second Division team Waasland-Beveren in 2010. After gaining promotion, he was signed by Kortrijk in the fall of 2013 as a replacement goalkeeper.
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This meant that the 1961-62 season, as a transition season, went through three rounds and each of the fourteen clubs played 39 games. The year after, the league returned to two divisions, North and South, still with fourteen clubs each and the winners gaining promotion. In 1963, the two divisions were expanded to sixteen clubs each.
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The 2015–16 season was Southend United's 110th year in existence and their first season back in League One after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with competing in League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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Moore was born in Workington in Cumbria. He studied history at the University of Central Lancashire. After graduating, he worked in various roles in the retail sector, gaining promotion to be a retail manager for Asda. He was first elected as a councillor for the Conservative Party on Preston City Council on 3 May 2010 for the Greyfriars Ward.
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A public memorial service was held at a packed St. Mary's Church in Fratton, Portsmouth. Dickinson was laid to rest in Alton, Hampshire. Pompey later that season won the 1982–83 Third Division championship title, gaining promotion back to the Second Division. In the 1983–84 Second Division season, Portsmouth finished sixteenth place in the table.
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On 24 May 1992, Peterborough United played at Wembley for the first time, against Stockport County in the Third Division playoff final. With Posh winning 2–1 and gaining promotion to the new First division. They played in Football League Division One between 1992 and 1994 and finished 10th, their highest ever league finish, in 1992–93 season.
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1980's: North Division One the top tier of Shinty. National final between winner of North Division One and South Division One. 1996: Premier Division founded making North Division One the second tier of Shinty. 1996 to 1999: Winners of North Division One and South Division One playing in National final with eventual winner gaining promotion to Premier Division.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with GD Estoril Praia winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with Vitória Setúbal and FC Penafiel. At the other end of the table SC Covilhã and União Funchal were relegated to the Segunda Divisão along with SC Salgueiros who were relegated for financial reasons.
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The league was contested by 18 teams with Rio Ave FC winning the championship and gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga along with FC Alverca and Estrela Amadora. At the other end of the table Leça FC and União Lamas were relegated to the Segunda Divisão along with SC Farense who were relegated for financial reasons.
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In January 2009 PEPO merged with the Rakuunat youth organisation Rakuunat Juniorit. As a result of the merger also the Rakuunat Juniorit women's team playing in the Kakkonen (Second Division) moved under the auspices of PEPO. In 2009 the men's team again tasted success by winning their Kolmonen group and gaining promotion back to the Kakkonen.
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With Stoke gaining promotion to the Premier League in 2008, attendances increased. However, the capacity was reduced to 27,500 due to segregation. The name of the ground was changed to the bet365 Stadium in June 2016. Work began on expanding the stadium to over 30,000 in February 2017 and was concluded in the summer of 2017.
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Both teams won their respective competitions that season with results such as 9–1 common. The club was successful in gaining promotion to State League 1 and State League 2. The following year the senior team brought more success to the club winning the State League 1 competition. The blend of youth and experience worked well.
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The club was founded in 1929 by Brian Desmond. The current clubhouse at Saint Hill was built in 1997. The club was incorporated as a company in 2009. In the 2011–12 season, G-Force played in the London 2 South East division (a level 7 division), which they won, gaining promotion to London 1 South.
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The 2013 season saw Kells embark on a new venture entering the National Conference league which resulted in the team being crowned division 3 champions and gaining promotion to division 2 at the 1st attempt. The 2nd also team continued where they left off in 2012 winning 2 of the 3 trophies on offer in the Cumberland league.
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Scott Elliot continues as 2nd XI captain. Elworth also features a Sunday league football team, Elworth Park Rangers Football Club. Formed in 2016 and based at the local Fox Inn Pub, the team play in the Crewe Regional Sunday Football League Premier Division, having finished in 3rd in Division One, gaining promotion in the 2017/2018 season.
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East Preston Cricket Club (EPCC) was founded in 1860. In 1989 it was elected to the Sussex Invitation Cricket League and has experienced mixed success. The Club's best performance to date was finishing 6th in the top division. In 1996 they were relegated to Division 2 but succeeded in gaining promotion back to Division 1 the following season.
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Masarna are a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Avesta, Sweden. The club was founded in 1937 as the Folkare Motorklubb but their first track was not built until 1948. Masarna joined the Swedish second division in 1958 and remained there until gaining promotion to the Elitserien in 1999. They then won their first Elitserien championship in 2000.
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After retiring from playing, Smith managed Nelson, Bury, Tottenham Hotspur, Notts County and Bristol Rovers. Smith became manager of Spurs in 1930. At Spurs he achieved modest success, guiding the team to the runners-up position in Division Two in 1933, thereby gaining promotion to the First Division. The team finished third place in the First Division in 1934.
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After beating Halifax Town 2–1, on aggregate, in the semi-final, they won 2–1 against Gateshead in the final, held at Wembley Stadium, gaining promotion back to the Football League after a nine-year absence. The club also reached their first FA Trophy final, held at Wembley Stadium, where they beat Gosport Borough 4–0.
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The fourteen teams in the division are drawn from across northern England and is the highest regional rugby union league in the north of England. The champion club is automatically promoted to National League 2 North and the runner-up meets the second placed team of Midlands Premier in a play-off, with the winner also gaining promotion.
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After retiring as a player he worked as a manager. He was manager of Staines Town between July 1991 and January 1992. He was also in charge of Hendon, Walton & Hersham,reaching the FA Cup 1st rnd v Swansea and also gaining promotion in his first season .He was in charge of Hendon from 1995 to 1997.
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It was renamed LEB Oro in 2007. The league is contested by 18 clubs. Each season, the top-finishing team in the LEB Oro are automatically promoted to the Liga ACB. The teams that finish the season in 2nd to 9th place enter a playoff tournament, with the winner also gaining promotion to the Liga ACB.
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The 2016–17 season is Cheltenham Town's 130th season of existence and their first back in League Two after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with competing in League Two, the club will also participate in the FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
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The 2016–17 season is Grimsby Town's 139th season of existence and their first back in League Two after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with competing in League Two, the club will also participate in the FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
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1980's: South Division One the top tier of Shinty. National final between winner of North Division One and South Division One. 1996 to 1999: Winners of North Division One and South Division One playing in National final with eventual winner gaining promotion to Premier Division. 1999 to 2006: National Division One becomes third tier of shinty with advent of National Division One.
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He served in the Royal Navy shortly after, gaining promotion to lieutenant in July 1948. He was placed on the Emergency List in September 1950, the same year he in which he played one first-class match for the Combined Services cricket team against Essex at Chelmsford. He batted once during the match, scoring 2 runs before being dismissed by Ken Preston.
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In the Second Division Norwich City and Birmingham City were promoted. This was the first time that Norwich City had reached the top flight. Charlton Athletic and Watford were relegated. Aston Villa ended their two-year spell in the Third Division by gaining promotion as champions, and by the end of the decade would be firmly re-established as a First Division club.
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Taroona Football Club is a soccer club which represents Taroona in the Tasmanian Southern Championship. The first Taroona club was Taroona Ajax(1972) who won Div 1 in 1973, gaining promotion to the Premier League for 1974. They were relegated in 1974 and the club disbanded. Lindisfarne St Mirren merged with Taroona Junior Club to form the current Taroona Football Club in 1978.
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The Offenburger FV II, in its better days, spent six seasons in the Verbandsliga Südbaden, which it finally got relegated from in 1990. After a time, were the club had no reserve side at all, the team has returned to some success, winning the Kreisliga B Offenburg, Staffel IV in 2008 and gaining promotion to the Kreisliga A Offenburg, Staffel Nord.
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Heracles Almelo is a Dutch professional football club based in Almelo, founded in 1903. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. Heracles won the Eerste Divisie title during the 2004–05 season, gaining promotion to the Eredivisie for the first time in 28 years. The club has remained in the top division ever since.
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The goal was scored by Da Silva. This match is known as the Ca-Ju derby. On May 25, 1993, Juventude signed a partnership with Parmalat, bringing more investment to the club. On December 4, 1994, Juventude won the second division of Campeonato Brasileiro, which was the first national title won by the club, gaining promotion to the first division.
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The club was officially founded in 1926 and it started play in lower tiers after the World War II. The club won the regional championship in 2011, gaining promotion to the Czech Fourth Division. The team placed second in Divize A, part of the Czech Fourth Division, in the 2012–13 season. Since then it plays in the Bohemian Football League.
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The 2015–16 season was Preston North End's first season back in the Championship, after gaining promotion via the play-offs last season, in their 136th year in existence. Along with competing in the Championship, the club will also participate in the FA Cup and League Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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In June 2011, Jones was appointed head coach of London Welsh. He immediately gaining promotion to then Aviva Premiership for 2012/13. Jones made some good signings to make his team competitive, including Rugby World Cup winning scrum-half Piri Weepu. Their first ever game in the Premiership was against 2012 runners-up Leicester Tigers, of which they won 38–13.
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The 2015 Lory Meagher Cup was the 7th staging of the Lory Meagher Cup, the Gaelic Athletic Association's fourth tier inter-county hurling championship. The championship began on 2 May 2015 and ended on 6 June 2015. Longford were the defending champions but were successful in gaining promotion to the Nicky Rackard Cup. Lancashire fielded a team for the very first time.
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In addition to the championship the club also worn the John Landa Nkomo Liquor hub Super 8 cup and the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo top 8 Knockout. In 2017, the club won the ZIFA southern region division one championship thus gaining promotion to the 2018 Premier Soccer League. They are called“Amakhosi Amahle”, for their dominance is nothing less than respect worthy.
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They were relegated from the then Division 3 in 1973. In 1978 they were granted access to the newly created fourth level of French football, where they stayed until gaining promotion in 1982. They remained at the third level until the FFF reorganised the league again in 1993, when they were placed in the fourth level Championnat de France Amateur.
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However, because Worcester's average attendances have more than doubled since then, a large percentage of the Worcester fan base, many of them newer supporters, see Gloucester as Worcester's main rivals. This is predominantly because of playing them regularly since gaining promotion to The Premiership in 2004, the geographical closeness of the two Cities and various media sources citing the game as a derby.
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The 2019–20 season was Damac's 48th year in their history and first season back in the Pro League since the 1981–82 season after gaining promotion for finishing in the second place in the MS League last season. The club participated in the Pro League and the King Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2019 to 9 September 2020.
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Abertillery Bluebirds are a Welsh football team based in the town of Abertillery. They currently have a senior side in the Ardal Leagues South East, tier 3 of the Welsh football pyramid. In May 2019 they returned to the Welsh Football League, gaining promotion from the Gwent County League. having last played in the league in the 2013–14 season.
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Bradley's first season in charge of Antrim was seen as a hughly successful one. He stated their aim at the start of the year as gaining promotion from Division 4 of the National Football League. Antrim achieved this feat by going undefeated and finishing top of Division 4. Along with second-placed Sligo they qualified for the National League Division 4 final.
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There are also Freeland A and B teams and a Sunday League team. Freeland Firsts were Premier Division champions in the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. Freeland Reserves were Oxfordshire Senior League Division 3 champions in the 2008–09 season with the First team gaining promotion after finishing second in division 2. Freeland has also had its own amateur orchestra.
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Tottenham Hotspur played their first ever season in the Football League, gaining promotion to the First Division in the process. Spurs, along with Bradford Park Avenue entered the Second Division to replace Lincoln City and Stoke. This year started a new competition: the Charity Shield; a match between the champion of the Professional League vs. the champion of the Amateur League.
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Boz Qurd Samukh FK () was an Azerbaijani football club from Samukh founded in 1990, as Kür Samux. They finished second in the 1992 Azerbaijan First Division, gaining promotion to the 1993 Azerbaijan Top Division, where they changed their name to Boz Qurd Samukh for their only season, as they finished 9th in Group B, and dissolved at the end of the same season.
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West Ham United striker Tony Cottee had another high scoring season before being transferred to Everton. Steve Bull scored 52 goals in all competitions (37 in the league) for Fourth Division champions Wolverhampton Wanderers. Young midfielder David Platt had an excellent first season for Aston Villa, establishing himself as a competent goalscorer as well as gaining promotion to the First Division.
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Gustinetti started his coaching career in 1988 with Serie D club Leffe, ending the season in third place. He then moved at Promozione club Albinese, leading them to win the league and gaining promotion to Serie D. After a ninth and a tenth place, he left Albinese in 1992 and returned into coaching in 1994, again with Leffe, now in Serie C1.
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On 26 May 2012, Grayson led Huddersfield to play-off victory over Sheffield United, gaining promotion to the Championship. Grayson's first match in charge of Huddersfield in the Championship came on 17 August 2012, a 1–0 defeat away to Cardiff. His first Championship win as the club's manager was on 25 August 2012, a 2–0 home victory against Burnley.
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Hackney Rugby Football Club is a rugby club based in Hackney, London, England. Hackney RFC has five senior teams, playing home matches at Spring Hill Recreation Ground. They are currently playing in London 2 North West (a tier 7 league in the English rugby union system) after gaining promotion from London 3 North West as champions in the 2016-17 season.
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The 2015–16 season was Bournemouth's first season in the Premier League (and their first ever season in the top-flight of English football) after gaining promotion in the previous season in their 126th year in existence. This season Bournemouth participate in the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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16 teams from Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia competed in the first season of the reformed Regionalliga Nordost. RB Leipzig won the league, suffering no defeats, and also won their promotion playoff, gaining promotion to 3. Liga. As SV Babelsberg 03 was relegated from 3. Liga and Leipzig won promotion, the standard two teams were relegated.
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The club was founded in 1987 by Retfordian Brian Jackson to give the town a senior club after Retford Town had gone out of business. The club's inaugural season was in the Gainsborough & District League which was successful so it applied to join the Notts Football Alliance the following season and competed in that league up until 2001, when they joined the Central Midlands League. Just three years passed before another milestone was reached and the club joined the Northern Counties East League. The success continued, finishing as runners-up in the Northern Counties East League Division One in 2005–06, gaining promotion to the Premier Division, which they won at their first attempt. They were then promoted to the Northern Premier League Division One South, which they won two years running, gaining promotion to the Premier Division in 2009.
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The history of Trondheim Ishockeyklubb started in 1986 with the merger of the ice hockey sections of Astor and Strindheim IL. It was eminent that if they should be able to challenge the hockey hierarchy in the south of Norway, Trondheim could not afford to have three clubs fighting for the right to do so (Rosenborg withdrew at an early stage of the merger). Strindheim had proven the strength of icehockey in Trondheim by gaining promotion to the top league in 1984, and at the same time shown the weakness by losing all 18 games heavily. Trondheim IK, or TIK for short, soon made their presence known gaining promotion at the first attempt, and then start challenging for honours. With backing from local investors they soon started signing some of the biggest names in Norwegian ice hockey.
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Neither name stuck however. From 1826 to 1827, Perry acted as fleet captain for Commodore Rodgers. Perry returned to Charleston, South Carolina for shore duty in 1828, and in 1830 took command of a sloop-of-war, . He spent the years 1833–1837 as second officer of the New York Navy Yard (later the Brooklyn Navy Yard), gaining promotion to captain at the end of this tour.
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Initially flying a Sopwith Pup, he gained his first three aerial victories between March and July 1917., also gaining promotion to flight lieutenant on 30 June 1917. Rochford's squadron was then re-equipped with the Sopwith Camel, and Rochford gained two more victories in September to attain "ace" status. He gained three more victories in January 1918, and six in March, bringing his total to fourteen.
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The 2016–17 season was Al-Ettifaq Football Club's 72nd season in existence and first season in the Pro League since their relegation in the 2013–14 season; after gaining promotion last year. Along with the Pro League, the club also competed in the Crown Prince Cup and the King Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
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During the late 1950s and 1960s the club enjoyed a brief revival. After twice winning the Moscardó Trophy, a competition for Catalan teams in the Tercera División, they won Tercera División champions in both seasons 1961/62 and 1962/63. On the latter occasion they succeeded in gaining promotion to the Segunda División. After five seasons, they were relegated to Tercera División after season 1967/68.
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Over that period, Boro maintained reasonable progress in the Second Division but never looked like gaining promotion. After a 4th-place finish in 1962–63, the only way for Boro was down. They finished 10th, 17th, then 21st. On the last day of the season, Middlesbrough needed a draw at Cardiff to stay up, who themselves needed a win to remain in the division.
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Ironi Kiryat Shmona was created in 2000 with a merger between two rival Kiryat Shmona clubs, Hapoel and Maccabi. The merged club played in fourth tier Liga Alef for the 2000–01 season, winning the division and gaining promotion to Liga Artzit. The club first promoted to the top division in 2007, after winning Liga Leumit. In 2011–12 the club won the championship.
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Since 1994 the club has boasted three senior men's team and one senior women's team. The first team have played in the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Federation Premiership for the vast majority of this period. They were briefly relegated to the championship in 2008, but won the championship in 2011 gaining promotion to the premiership once again. The reserves currently play in the championship.
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The club is then downgraded to National 4. Started from scratch, Caen Basket Calvados rebuilds and goes successively in National 3 in 1998 and National 2 in 1999. Supported since 2013 by Nicolas Batum, the club sign Hervé Coudray as coach in May 2013. Most recently, they won the championship of the third-level Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1) in 2017, thereby gaining promotion to Pro B.
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West spent most of its history in the Lancashire and Cheshire League, then joined the Manchester League Division One in 2006. After gaining promotion to the Manchester league Premier Division and entering the FA Vase in 2011, the club was accepted into the North West Counties Football League Division One for the 2012–13 season, and gained promotion to the Premier Division after just one season.
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He was born in Kurobane, a town in the Nasu District of Tochigi Prefecture. Hokutōriki made his professional debut in March 1993, joining Kokonoe stable. In October of that year he transferred to the newly created Hakkaku stable run by former yokozuna Hokutoumi. It took nearly nine years for him to achieve sekitori status by gaining promotion to the second jūryō division in January 2002.
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Chaves spent the following three years in the third division before being crowned Segunda Divisão champions in 2012–13, thus gaining promotion back to the Segunda Liga. After missing out on promotion to the first division during a thrilling final day of the 2014–15 season, Chaves were promoted the following season back to the top-flight Primeira Liga for the first time in 17 years.
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Bundesliga match against FC Erzgebirge Aue. He established himself as a starting player for Köln during the season, making 24 appearances in the league. In 2013–14, Hector started 33 of Köln's 34 matches as the FC won the second division championship, gaining promotion to the Bundesliga. On 4 November 2013, he scored his first professional goal in a 4–0 defeat of 1.
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The 1921–22 season was Stoke's 22nd season in the Football League and the fourth in the Second Division. After almost being relegated to the third tier last season Stoke improved dramatically and finished in 2nd position gaining promotion to the First Division. Key to Stoke's success was the early season signing of the Broad brothers Tommy and Jimmy with the later scoring 27 goals.
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Newcastle University joined the Northern Alliance in the 1970s, leaving the league after finishing bottom in the 1978–79 season. In 1988, the club rejoined the Northern Alliance league system, being placed in Division One. In the 1991–1992 season, Newcastle University were relegated to Division Two, gaining promotion back to Division One in 1997. In 2000, Newcastle University gained promotion to the Northern Alliance Premier Division.
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But this move showed that Southampton had ambition and were determined to compete with the best. Leicester City, Sunderland and Birmingham City ended their relatively short spells in the Second Division and occupied the division's three promotion places. Going down were Fulham, Burnley and Charlton Athletic. Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday all achieved some long-awaited success by gaining promotion from the Third Division.
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They played at this level until 2016 which saw them relegated from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship. The very next year, however, they won the 2017 Christy Ring Cup for a record equalling third time, gaining promotion to the top tier of hurling once again. Carlow's last appearance in a Leinster Senior Hurling Championship semi-final was in 1993, when Kilkenny defeated them by 18 points.
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On 13 July 2020, Akinfenwa and Wycombe won the 2020 EFL League One play-off Final over Oxford gaining promotion to the EFL Championship for the first time in both the player's career and the club's history. Akinfenwa finished the season as the club's joint-top league goal scorer with 10 goals. Akinfenwa signed a one-year contract extension with Wycombe on 16 July 2020.
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The club that finishes as champions are automatically promoted to National League 2 North. The runner-up meets the second placed team of North Premier in a play-off with the winner also gaining promotion. Relegated teams drop down to either Midlands 1 East or Midlands 1 West depending on location, and other factors such as the location of relegated and promoted teams in other divisions.
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He made his senior league debut for Karviná on 2 August 2014 in their 1–1 Czech National Football League home draw against Most. He scored his first league goal on 16 April 2016 in Karviná's 2–0 home win against Sokolov. After gaining promotion to the Czech First League with Karviná, Panák scored his first goal in the top flight after just 127 seconds of play.
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On the final day of the transfer window, 31 January 2013, Cambridge United allowed Jennings to join Mansfield Town. Jennings signed an 18-month contract with The Stags, with some media outlets mentioning that a fee was involved, with some stating it was a free-transfer. .He was part of the team which won the league with Mansfield in April 2013, gaining promotion to League Two.
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A year later they reached the Quarter- final of the FA Vase. In 1982 the Yorkshire League merged with the Midland League to form the Northern Counties East League (NCEL), and Frecheville were entered into Division One South of the new competition. When the league was reorganised in 1985, the club was placed in Division Two, which it won in 1986–87, gaining promotion to Division One.
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The women's team of Tennis Borussia Berlin was established in 1969 and gained promotion to the newly created Bundesliga in 1991, where they played for six years. After two relegations to the Regionalliga in 1997 and 2003 they successfully participated in the 2. Bundesliga from 2004 on. In 2009 they became league champions, gaining promotion back to the Bundesliga, but were relegated again the following season.
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1999 to 2006: National Division One becomes third tier of shinty with advent of National Division One. Winners of North Division One and South Division One playing in National final with eventual winner gaining promotion to National Division One (2nd tier). 2007: North Division One once again becomes the second tier of Shinty with the folding of National Division One. Champions guaranteed promotion to the Premier Division.
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Sherburn Eversley Cricket Club was formed in the 20th century and play at Eversley Park in Sherburn-in-Elmet. The club has two teams that play on a Saturday afternoons in the Leeds & Wetherby Cricket League; with the firsts gaining promotion and playing in the Second division in 2016 and the second team playing in Division Five. The club also has a Thursday evening team.
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They played at this level until 2016 which saw them relegated from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship. The very next year, however, they won the 2017 Christy Ring Cup for a record equalling third time, gaining promotion to the top tier of hurling once again. Carlow's last appearance in a Leinster Senior Hurling Championship semi-final was in 1993, when Kilkenny defeated them by 18 points.
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Anderbrügge was born in Datteln. He started playing professionally with Borussia Dortmund, making his Bundesliga debut on 7 July 1984, in a 2–3 home loss against Borussia Mönchengladbach. After a final poor season, in 1987–88, he moved to FC Schalke 04, then in the second division. In his first three years, he netted a total of 36 league goals, eventually gaining promotion in 1991.
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The following two years since then, the Spielvereinigung finished mid-table, with not having either fear of getting relegated or gaining promotion. In early 2016, the 1950-built main stand was demolished, and the construction of a new main stand started. This period of their newer history is characterized by the relegation of FCN in 2014, and both rivals playing each year since then.
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But after gaining promotion to the Championship, Fuseini's contract wasn't renewed by Millwall. Shortly after leaving Millwall, he had a short trial with Leeds United. On 23 July, he played as a trialist for Crystal Palace against Exeter City, starting the game in central midfield before switching to left back in the second. On 4 August, Sky Sports reported that Leeds were considering offering Fuseini a contract.
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The 2015–16 Barnet F.C. season was the team’s 128th year in existence, and their first back in League Two since the 2012–13 season, after gaining promotion in the 2014-15 season. Along with competing in League Two, the club also participated in the FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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FC Armenicum (), is a defunct Armenian football club from Yerevan. It was founded in 2000 and won the Armenian First League during the same year, gaining promotion to the Armenian Premier League for the 2001 season. However, in 2001, Armenicum was absorbed by FC Pyunik who replaced them in the premier league competition automatically. Hence, Armenicum was dissolved in 2001 and retired from professional football.
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The 2015–16 season is Bury's first season back in League One since relegation in 2012–13 season after gaining promotion the previous season It is also their 131st year in existence. Along with competing in League One, the club will also participate in the FA Cup, League Cup and JP Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
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The latter semi-final was held at Old Trafford, Manchester, and the attendance (76,962) is still a record for the stadium. Grimsby Town were relegated on 7 May 2010 to the Football Conference, losing their status as a League club. It returned to the Football League after gaining promotion via the National League play-off final in 2016, beating Forest Green Rovers 3–1 at Wembley Stadium.
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Lloyd-Morgan worked at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester from 1966 as an archaeological assistant. She worked on cataloguing the collection as well as in education and community outreach. During Lloyd-Morgan's 23 years at the Grosvenor Museum she encountered difficulties in gaining promotion or progression in her job. However, she used the time to host researchers and to publish widely on Roman mirrors and other small finds.
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The tenth season in a row in the Second Division saw Dumbarton no closer to gaining promotion as another poor start to the league campaign, which saw only 5 wins by the turn of the year, put paid to any hopes for a further season. In the end, fortunes were to improve, and Dumbarton finished 12th out of 20, with 38 points - 17 behind champions East Stirling.
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In total, he participated in nine TFF Second League matches that season, en route to gaining promotion to the TFF First League. The following season Yerlikaya, called The Piç by his team mates became the starting left back, making 36 league TFF First League appearances. Sivasspor won promotion at the end of the 2004–05 season, and Yerlikaya made his top-flight debut on 6 August 2005 against Malatyaspor.
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The 2014–15 season was Swindon Town's third consecutive season in the League One since gaining promotion from League Two in 2012. Swindon were seeking to better the 2013–14 season, a campaign that resulted in the Wiltshire club narrowly missing out on a spot in the play-offs. Alongside the league campaign, Swindon Town also competed in the FA Cup, League Cup and the Football League Trophy.
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He began his youth career in local team NK Travnik, after which he moved to Zagreb and joined Dinamo Zagreb. His career as a player was, by his own admission, average; therefore, he began his coaching career at a relatively early age. As a player, he played for Dinamo Zagreb, Lokomotiva Zagreb, Rijeka, Sarajevo, and Sion. He ended his career at Moutier in 1966 after gaining promotion to LNA.
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Mykhlik continued to quickly rise through the ranks of his unit, gaining promotion to squadron commander in November 1944. That year he was admitted to the Communist Party. While the squadron was under his command its crews totaled 309 sorties but lost only one of their own aircraft. In addition to flying combat sorties as squadron commander he took on the responsibility of flight training, training six new pilots in 1945.
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Rayners Lane Football Club was established in 1933. By the 1960s the club had joined the Spartan League. The club left the league in 1970, but returned for two seasons between 1973 and 1975, during which time they reached the Second Round of the FA Vase. They joined the Hellenic Football League Division One in 1978, winning the league in 1981–82 and gaining promotion to the Premier Division.
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Power Volley Milano was founded in 2010 as Power Volleyball. They competed in the 2010–11 Serie B2, and immediately gained promotion at the end of the season. However, following the sale of the club from Parabiago Volleyball, the club dissolved. They were refounded in 2012 as the current Power Volley Milano, and finished the 2012–13 Serie B1 season in 3rd place, gaining promotion to Serie A2.
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Irshad Chehim were founded in 1992, receiving their official license on 9 November 2009. In the 2012–13 season, the club won the Lebanese Fifth Division and gained promotion to the Lebanese Fourth Division. After two seasons, in 2015–16 they won the league title, gaining promotion to the Lebanese Third Division. The club participated in the 2018–19 Lebanese FA Cup as one of three Third Division sides.
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The 2008 NatWest Pro40 was a league system 40 over competition. Sussex Sharks won Division One, while Essex Eagles finished top of Division Two, gaining promotion; Yorkshire Carnegie were also promoted, but Glamorgan Dragons lost their playoff match and remained in Division Two. Somerset Sabres' Marcus Trescothick was the leading run-scorer in the competition with 556 runs, while Jade Dernbach of Surrey Brown Caps claimed the most wickets, with 24.
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Brill was promoted to acting flight lieutenant in July, and completed his first tour of operations, numbering 31 sorties, on 11 August.Nelson, "From Wagga to Waddington", pp. 27–30 He was seconded to the RAF as an instructor in November 1942, returning to No. 27 Operational Training Unit at Lichfield. He spent the next eleven months there, leading a training flight and gaining promotion to acting squadron leader in April 1943.
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PFC Victoria London were formed on 1 July 2016, as a club for the Polish community in the United Kingdom. Upon formation, the club joined the Middlesex County League, winning Division Two in their debut season. In the 2017–18 season, PFC Victoria London won Division One (West), gaining promotion to the Middlesex County Premier Division. PFC London Victoria entered the FA Vase for the first time in 2019–20.
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A glum mood settled over the bare regiment, now but a Battalion in size. Officers and Senior NCO's dreaded the thought of starting all over with the Basic Stage of Training. Colonel Ryder was saved, accepting Transfer to the Pacific Theater as General MacArthur's Airborne Adviser, gaining promotion to full colonel in doing so. The regiment was a gutted shell with an uncertain future and no prospect of being sent overseas.
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Knefler thereafter was replaced with Branko Zebec and moved on to then second division club Borussia Dortmund finishing the season sixth. 1975–76 he was replaced after matchday 21 with Horst Buhtz. The club was then in fourth position and finished the season in second place, gaining promotion after two wins in a decider against 1. FC Nürnberg, the second of the southern group of the second division.
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The 2012–13 season saw the club finish as champions of Division Two, gaining promotion to Division One. Littlehampton won the 2014–15 Sussex County Football League, finishing 1st. They however were not promoted after not applying for the Isthmian League. Their Twitter account said that "we don't want to", although it is likely they couldn't because their ground would not pass the grading test for Step 4 teams.
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Skelton was born on 27 March 1981, in Carlisle, England. He started his career at Carlisle United as a trainee. In 1997, after three years at Brunton Park he moved to non-League club Workington Reds and one year later joined then Northern Premier League outfit Gretna. Gretna joined the Scottish Football League in 2002, eventually gaining promotion to the Scottish Premier League during the 2006–07 season.
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The club was founded as FA Île-Rousse in 1976. Their best period so far was in the mid-1990s, when they made it to the Championnat de France de football National, the third tier of French football. After gaining promotion in 1996, the club merged with AS Monticello and became known as FA Île-Rousse- Monticello. They remained just one season at the third level, being relegated again in 1997.
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Turun Palloseura Naiset or TPS Naiset is the representative women's ice hockey team of Turun Palloseura (TPS), a multi-sport club based in Turku, Southwest Finland. The team has played in the Naisten Liiga, Finland’s premier women's ice hockey league, since gaining promotion in the 2018–19 season. Prior to promotion, TPS played in the Naisten Mestis and Naisten Suomi-sarja leagues. Their home arena is Impivaara Ice Hall () in Turku.
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Moreira made his debut in Argentina with Talleres de Córdoba in 2006 at the age of 18 playing against Defensa y Justicia. After Talleres' relegation in 2009, he signed for Chilean side Rangers de Talca. He returned to Argentina in 2011 to play for Deportivo Armenio, Club Comunicaciones, Club Sportivo Estudiantes and Ferro Carril Oeste. He was crowned champions with Estudiantes in 2014 gaining promotion to Primera B Nacional.
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Futebol Clube do Marco was founded on 25 May 1927. In 2000, it reached the second division for only the second time, being relegated at the end of the season, but immediately gaining promotion back. During four consecutive seasons, Marco competed in the second level. In 2004–05, it achieved its best ever classification in the category, finishing in fourth position, nine points behind last promotee C.F. Estrela da Amadora.
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The Westmeath Intermediate Football Championship is the second tier of club football competition in Westmeath GAA, as the top club is promoted to the Westmeath Senior Football Championship, while the bottom club is relegated to the Westmeath Junior Football Championship. In addition to gaining promotion, the winning club will represent Westmeath in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship, with the possibility of qualifying for the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship.
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McCulloch returned to the first-team towards the end of the season, playing the final four games of the season at the unfamiliar position of right half-back. Altogether, he played 28 matches and scored six goals in his first season with Nelson, as the team finished champions of the Third Division North, thereby gaining promotion to the Football League Second Division for the first time in their history.
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In 1983 they were runners-up and champions, gaining promotion to the 2nd division for the following year, assisted by their player/coach, ex- Southampton star John Sydenham. They stayed in the 2nd or 3rd Divisions for the next 20 years. In 1986, the club moved to the Kingsway Sporting Complex in Landsdale (now Madeley). The club's name was changed to Wanneroo British for the 1989–1995 seasons.
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SG Dennhausen-Dörnhagen is a working partnership of the independent clubs FSV 1895 Dennhausen and FSV 1899 Dörnhagen. For a time FSV Bergshausen partnered with SG Dennhausen-Dörnhagen to field a combined football side. Each of the three clubs involved still has youth football programs. Nowadays the club plays independently again in the tier eight Kreisoberliga after gaining promotion by winning in 2018 a title in the tier nine Kreisliga A.
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The town's football team, St Blazey A.F.C., was the first club of England International goalkeeper Nigel Martyn. The town is also home to St Blazey Cricket Club which has two teams. The cricket club is based at the top of Middleway Road. The club most recently won the Roseveare Cup in 2019, with both the first team and second team also gaining promotion from Division 3 & 5 East respectively.
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The club was established in 2006, initially playing in the Cardiff & District League. They were champions of the Premier Division in the 2012–13 season, joining the South Wales Amateur League Division Two, where they were champions in 2014–15. They joined the newly formed South Wales Alliance League for the 2015–16 season, and were again league champions, gaining promotion to the Premier Division for the 2016–17 season.
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The 2017 Christy Ring Cup was the 13th staging of the Christy Ring Cup hurling championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 2005. The competition began on 22 April 2017 and ended on 10 June 2017. Meath were the 2016 champions and were promoted to the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Mayo returned to the Christy Ring Cup after gaining promotion from the Nicky Rackard Cup.
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FK Fərid Baku () was an Azerbaijani football club from Baku founded in 1995, and dissolved in 1997. They came third in the Azerbaijan First Division during their first season as a club, gaining promotion to the Azerbaijan Top Division. In their one and only season in the First Division they finished 7th in the league and reached the semi-finals of the Azerbaijan Cup, getting beaten by Khazri Buzovna.
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The club finishing in first place is automatically promoted to National League 2 South. The runner-up play the second placed team of London & South East Premier, with the winner also gaining promotion. Relegated teams drop down to either South West 1 East or South West 1 West (occasionally Midlands 1 West) depending on location, and other factors such as the location of relegated and promoted teams in other divisions.
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The 2014–15 season was Iraklis third consecutive season in the Football League and fourth overall. In the league the club finished first in the North Group and gained entrance to the promotion playoffs. In the playoffs, Iraklis finished in the second position, gaining promotion to the Super League, after 4 years in the lower divisions. In the Greek Cup Iraklis was eliminated by Skoda Xanthi in the semi-finals.
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They were admitted into the Clwyd League Division 4 gaining promotion at the first attempt. Llandyrnog remained in Division 2/3 until the end of 1978/79 when they were promoted as runners up. The club spent over a decade in Division 1 until 1990/91 when they gained promotion to the Premier Division. Llandyrnog were crowned champions at their first attempt and promoted to the Sealink Welsh Alliance.
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The club was founded in 1968 with the name of U.S. Giaveno. Giaveno spent a long time in the regional Piedmont leagues, and wouldn't gain promotion from the Terza Categoria until the 1980s. When the team finally promoted, they succeeded in a double promotion, gaining promotion to the Prima Categoria. In 1986 the football club merged with U.S. Coazze, giving the club a new name; A.C. Giaveno Coazze.
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A whole season in The Isthmian league followed (Havant and Waterlooville being favourites to get promoted), and promotion was achieved on the last day of the season on 22 April 2017. Bradbury earned the 'Manager of the year' award for winning the league. Hawks played the 2017–18 season back in the National League South and won it at the first attempt, gaining promotion to the National League Premier Division.
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The club was founded on September 21, 1978, as Bosque Esporte Clube, being renamed to Bosque Formosa Esporte Clube in the 2000s, and to Formosa Esporte Clube in 2008. They won the Campeonato Brasiliense Second Level in 1999. The club eventually adopted again the name Bosque Formosa Esporte Clube. They finished as runners-up in the Campeonato Brasiliense Second Level in 2010, thus gaining promotion to the 2011 Campeonato Brasiliense.
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Rosmini joined newly formed AM Gunners in the 2008 Brunei Premier Two and became league champions, gaining promotion to the top flight. AM Gunners left the Bruneian football league system in 2011 after two seasons. Rosmini next moved to and captained a reformed MS PDB, returning to his first club in some ways. After a two-season hiatus, he re-appeared for the Policemen in the 2017 season.
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Harrisons F.C. is a defunct football club from Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, England, formerly members of the West Midlands (Regional) League. Previously members of the Staffordshire County League (South), they moved up to the West Midlands Regional League in 1982 initially playing in Division Two. They finished runners-up in their first season, gaining promotion to Division One. They won that, in 1984–85 earning another promotion to the Premier Division.
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For the most part of the club's existence they have played their adult football at Junior level. However they were promoted to Intermediate football in 1980 and remained at that level until 1983. They were again successful at gaining promotion in 1989 and stayed in the Intermediate grade until 1993. In 2001 they won their first adult title when their Reserve team annexed the Junior Reserve Championship, beating Newtownstewart at Drumquin.
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The club was founded on 2 February 1949, with the first president being Jean Pigree. They initially played in the district league of Mayenne, gaining promotion to the Maine league system in 1994. In 2000 they gained promotion to Championnat de France Amateur 2 by winning the Maine Division d'Honneur. Since then the club has been promoted and relegated between CFA 2 and the DH a number of times.
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Steve Wood (born 2 February 1963) is an English former football defender. Wood started his career as an apprentice at Arsenal but was then snapped up by Reading for whom he had eight successful years gaining promotion to the then first division. He then moved to Millwall, and finally onto Southampton. He had a brief spells at Oxford United and Woking in the latter part of his career then retired.
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Brentford initially played amateur football before they entered the London League in 1896 and finished as runners-up of the Second Division and then the First Division to win election into the Southern League in 1898. They won the Southern League Second Division in 1900–01 and were elected into the Football League in 1920. Brentford won the Third Division South title in 1932–33 and the Second Division title in 1934–35. They spent five seasons in the First Division, reaching a peak of fifth in 1935–36, before three relegations left the club in the Fourth Division by 1962. Crowned Fourth Division champions in 1962–63, Brentford were relegated in 1966 and again in 1973 after gaining promotion in 1971–72. They spent 14 seasons in the Third Division after gaining promotion in 1977–78 and went on to win the Third Division title in 1991–92, though were relegated again in 1993.
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Stoke City Football Club (Women) are an English women's association football club affiliated with Stoke City. They are currently members of the FA Women's National League North. The club were formed in the summer of 2001 and had a successful first season in the West Midlands league Division One finishing third before gaining promotion to the Premier Division via the play-offs. Season 2008–09 saw the Ladies gain promotion into the Midland Combination League.
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On 24 July 2015, Abalo signed a two-year contract at Turkish Süper Lig club Sivasspor. He made his debut on 23 August, scoring from Cicinho's assist in a 2–4 loss at Eskişehirspor. On 20 January 2016, Abalo returned to his country and signed with Deportivo Alavés until the end of the second level campaign. After gaining promotion with the Basques he travelled abroad again, signing with Poland's Korona Kielce on 3 September.
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The club then saw success, progressing to the North West Counties Premier Division in 2017. This was due to them finishing second in the First Division, thus gaining promotion at the first time of asking. Charnock Richard Golf Club, which opened in 1994, is a parkland golf course on the main A49 Preston Road and is set in . It closed in July 2013, after being bought by sports tracksuit seller Dave Whelan.
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From 2008 onwards, the play-offs remained, however the prize was changed. Instead, the team that finished top in the league would be crowned champions, and then the top 4 finishing teams would qualify for the play-offs. The winner of the competition would then go on to race against the bottom Elite League team in the Promotion/Relegation Battle. Since its inception, no Premier League team has been successful in gaining Promotion this way.
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This season was one of the greats for Ghaxaq F.C. as it saw them gaining promotion from the third division, it was more than a decade since the village of Hal-Ghaxaq saw some movement and celebrations regarding football. This ended the next season as it saw Ghaxaq F.C. relegated again in the third division. However, Ghaxaq managed to bounce back and clinch promotion back to the Second Division during the 2015–2016 season.
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Boldklubben Avarta was founded on 20 January 1953 as "Rødovrevejens Boldklub". In the first year had the club home at Rødovre Stadium, but since 1960 has been the Espelundens Idrætsanlæg.Om os‚ avarta.dk The team was relegated from the Danish 2nd Division East following the 2005–06 season, but spent only two seasons in the Denmark Series Pool 1 before gaining promotion back into the Danish 2nd Division East for the 2008–09 season.
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Cho also won the 2015 K League Challenge Manager of the Year award after gaining promotion. In the 2016 season, Suwon FC finished 12th of 12 in their inaugural K League Classic season and were immediately relegated back to the K League Challenge. Cho Deok-je resigned towards the end of the 2017 season with Suwon outside of the playoffs. After leaving Suwon FC, Cho served as chairman of the Korean Football Association.
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Kanu joined Beira-Mar in the summer of 2008 from Águia Negra. His time with Auri-negros saw him feature regularly in a side which in the 2009–10 season claimed the Segunda Liga, thus gaining promotion to the Portuguese top flight. Kanu scored the goal which sealed promotion to the top flight against Carregado. In January 2011, Kanu would leave Beira-Mar for Belgian side Standard Liège on an undisclosed fee.
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The 2009–10 season is Stockport County's 128th season in football, and the second in England's third tier of football since gaining promotion via the League Two Play Offs in 2008. Stockport completed the whole season in Administration. This season ran from 8 August 2009 to 8 May 2010. Gary Ablett was named manager of Stockport for the whole of the season after his Predecessor Jim Gannon was made redundant in the summer of 2009.
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The run included memorable victories away at league leaders Merthyr Tydfil, then two wins at Conference sides Woking and Southport. Aylesbury United of the Isthmian League proved to be too big of a challenge, however, and City bowed out. In the league, a fifth-placed finish was a remarkable achievement. The 2003–04 season saw further progress with the Tigers finishing second in the Western Division and gaining promotion to the Premier Division.
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The 1932–33 season was Stoke City's 33rd season in the Football League and the 13th in the Second Division. After almost gaining promotion last season there was great belief that Stoke would finally make a return to the First Division. And they would do so in impressive style, setting a number of records as they finished in 1st place, a point ahead of Tottenham Hotspur to claim the Second Division title.
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2012 was a disappointing season for the Fort but this was exceeded by a woeful league performance in 2013 which saw the club relegated to the newly created National Division One for 2014. Fort's fate was sealed by a 1–1 draw against Lovat and a Kyles Athletic victory against Newtonmore. The club bounced back by gaining promotion at the first attempt in 2014. They finished 8th in the Premier Division in 2015.
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Later, they managed to advance to the final stages and eventually to the final of 2019 Chinese Champions League. On 19 October, they won 2–1 against Nanjing Fengfan in the first leg of the final at home, but they were defeated 4–1 in the away leg at Nanjing, and finished as runners-up in the league, gaining promotion to the China League Two for the first time in its 78 years of existence.
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The club finished in the last position in Segunda División and was relegated to Segunda División B. They appeared to have consolidated their top flight status after gaining promotion in 1999, and the team's most successful season came in 2000–01 when they reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, going out only to eventual runners-up Alavés; Rayo finished ninth in the previous campaign, but entered the competition via the fair play draw.
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Chairman Spinelli sold Genoa in 1997, moving onto Livorno. The late 1990s and early 2000s would be the most trying time in the history of the club, cwith constantly changing managers, a poor financial situation and little hope of gaining promotion, outside of a decent 6th-place finish in 1999–00. From 1997 until 2003, Genoa had a total of three different four different chairmen, before the club was passed on to Enrico Preziosi.
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The club currently plays in Division 3 Västra Svealand which is the fifth tier of Swedish football. In 2009 the club were close to gaining promotion to Division 2 but lost their final match and finished in third place one position behind local rivals Karlstad BK who gained promotion via the play-offs. FBK play their home matches at the Örsholmen IP in Karlstad. FBK Karlstad are affiliated to the Värmlands Fotbollförbund.
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Herentals F.C. are a football club from Harare, Zimbabwe currently playing in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League. It is associated with Herentals Group of Colleges, a private education service. College played their first season in the Zimbabwe second division in 2016 after acquiring the license of a defunct team, Bindura United. Herentals won the 2017 Northern Region Division One championship, gaining promotion to the top flight Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League for the first time.
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Sporting played that season in the First Division of the MFL. Bromsgrove gained a reputation for being the perennial bridesmaids, finishing 2nd for three consecutive years prior to 2016–17 in a league that offers just the one promotion place. However the 2016–17 season saw the club finish as champions and thus gaining promotion to the MFL Premier Division at last, becoming 'invincibles' in the process as the side remained unbeaten in the league.
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Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Atletico Catania is an Italian association football club founded in 1967 and based in Catania, Sicily. Throughout its history, the club played extensively at Serie C1 and Serie C2 professional level, almost gaining promotion to Serie B on two occasions during the 1990s. The club is currently part of the regionally organized amateur Eccellenza league, following two disbandments that led Atletico Catania down to the bottom ranks of national football.
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Islip was born in Parkwood Springs, Sheffield. He began his football career with local club Sheffield Douglas F.C. before turning professional with Second Division Huddersfield Town in 1911. While at Huddersfield he contributed to the club gaining promotion from the Second Division in 1919–20, played in the 1920 FA Cup Final and again in 1922, this time on the winning side. He was the club's leading League scorer in the 1921–22 season.
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The club rose through the league structure, gaining promotion to senior status following its Intermediate League win in 1970–71. Senior League 1 was attained for the first time after Section 2 was won in the 1975–76 season. In 1977, the club lost in the Ulster Section final of the Irish Senior Cup. Consolation came in the form of the club's first senior trophy when the Anderson Cup was won in that same season.
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In December 2000, the club was renamed SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 1973. 2007–08 saw Tasmania-Gropiusstadt play in the Berlin-Liga (V). Following a league restructure and two relegations in succession, the club played the 2009–10 season in the 8th tier Bezirksliga Berlin Staffel 3 before finishing second and gaining promotion to the Landesliga Berlin Staffel 2 (VII) for the 2010–11 season. In 2011, the club was renamed SV Tasmania Berlin.
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In 1910 Racing won the Segunda División final against Boca Juniors, gaining promotion to the top-flight division, Primera División, with Betular being part of the winning team. Betular won several titles with Racing, playing along with notable footballers such as Zoilo Canavery, Alberto Ohaco and Alberto Marcovecchio.Angel Betular on Racing official website In 1914 Betular played for Racing an international friendly match against Torino Football Club, with a score 1-0 for The Academy.
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Played from 12–18 March. The first and second place from each group of six advanced to the semifinals, and then finals, with the winner gaining promotion to the Group B. The three other semi-finalists, together with the two third place teams, would remain to form Group C1 in 1994. The remaining six nations would comprise Group C2, effectively being relegated. At the time of this tournament, the expected format for 1994 was different.
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The club currently play in the London & SE Division Invicta 2 Premier - East. In the 2015/2016 Season, the rugby club achieved great success by gaining promotion in to Shepherd Neame Kent 1. The club also won the Kent Vase, beating Beccahamian RFC in the final at The Jack Williams Memorial Ground, Aylesford, Kent. The score was Snowdown Colliery 31 - 5 Beccahamian RFC, with the final being heavily attended by the community.
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During his three-year stay at Tranmere he netted 32 goals in 117 appearances. In July 2002 Allison moved on a free transfer to Sheffield United. Although he had been offered a better deal at Third Division side Boston, he opted for the challenge of gaining promotion for the First Division club. He was a regular in a side that reached season both domestic cup semi finals in the 2002–03 season.
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Four seasons in Division Two followed during which time the club had won their second Football League Trophy and entered the play-offs three times eventually gaining promotion at the third attempt. Tony Pulis became Stoke manager in November 2002 and lead the club to safety on the final day of the 2002–03 season. He was sacked at the end of the 2004–05 season but was re-appointed by returning chairman Peter Coates in July 2006.
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Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts Football Club are a Scottish football club based at Ballast Bank in the town of Inverkeithing, Fife. They compete in the , the sixth tier of Scottish football, having joined the league with their senior team in 2018 and gaining promotion from the first division in 2020. The club was founded in 1996 as Inverkeithing Boys Club, before changing their name to Inverkeithing Blue Brazil a year later. Their current name was adopted in 2000.
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The following season, the club finished top of group B of CFA2, gaining promotion to CFA, and were overall champions of the division. In the 2015–16 season the club finished in 2nd place in CFA Group A, the highest league finishing position it has achieved to date. At the end of the 2019–20 seasons the club suffered relegation to Championnat National 3, when the season was ended early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tottenham's women's team was founded in 1985 as Broxbourne Ladies. They started using the Tottenham Hotspur name for the 1991–92 season and played in the London and South East Women's Regional Football League (then fourth tier of the game). They won promotion after topping the league in 2007–08. In the 2016–17 season they won the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division and a subsequent playoff, gaining promotion to the FA Women's Super League 2.
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He had a brief spell with Notts County in 1998 before being signed by Warnock again, this time for Bury. He spent five seasons with Bury and amassed 178 league appearances, with 11 goals. He left Bury in 2003 and moved to Carlisle United, where he experienced relegation from the Football League in his first season with the club. Carlisle made a swift return from the Football Conference the following season, gaining promotion through the play-offs.
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He is a former England Youth international having represented his country at U-19 level at the European UEFA tournament in Belgium. Guest was a member of the Forest Green team that won the Hellenic League in the 1981–82 season, thus gaining promotion to the Southern League, and won the 1982 FA Vase, defeating Rainworth Miners Welfare 3–0 at Wembley. He was one of three players booked in the Vase final for "over-exuberant tackles".
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The progress of Bologna in the Italian football league structure since the first season of a unified Serie A (1929/30). Their formative season was spent in the regional league under Arrigo Gradi as captain, Bologna won their league gaining promotion to a league named Group Veneto-Emiliano. They spent four seasons in this league, never finishing lower than fifth. Bologna were entered into the Northern League before all football leagues were postponed for World War I.
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The first team of FCR 2001 Duisburg, who carry the nickname of "Die Löwinnen" (lionesses), have played in the Bundesliga since gaining promotion in 1993. Winning the UEFA Women's Cup in 2009 and with past success in the German championship (2000) and the cup (twice), FCR Duisburg was one of the top teams in German women's football. In 2013 the club filed for insolvency and players joined and formed a new women's section at MSV Duisburg.
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Huddersfield Town's 1979–80 campaign is one of Town's most successful in their history, gaining promotion from the Division 4 title, the last season in which Town won the divisional title. They finished two points clear of Walsall. In Mick Buxton's first full season in charge, Town scored 101 league goals, the only season in which Town have scored more than 100 league goals in their entire history. This ended Town's five-year stint in the basement division.
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In his first full season of management, he took Peterborough to second place in League Two, gaining promotion. He was named League Two manager of the month for March 2008, after Peterborough won six games out of eight in the month. In his second full season, 2008–09, he led Peterborough to second place and automatic promotion to the Championship. He also won the League One Manager of the Month award for March 2009, following six straight wins.
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The club was formed in 1947 and were originally called Attenborough St Marys.Paperblog: The Farewell Hop – Paperblog, accessdate: March 6, 2020 The club played in the Long Eaton League. In 1973 the club joined Division One of the Central Alliance, gaining promotion to the Premier division at the first attempt.The Central Alliance 1962–1976: The Central Alliance 1962–1976, accessdate: March 6, 2020 Two seasons later in the 1975–76 season the club would win the Premier division.
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Oxford United, Wimbledon and Sheffield United continued their rise through the league by gaining promotion to the Second Division. Scunthorpe United, Southend United, Port Vale and Exeter City slipped out of the Third Division. Narrowly avoiding the Third Division drop zone were Plymouth Argyle, who compensated for their league form by reaching the FA Cup semi finals for the first time in their history. York City, Doncaster Rovers, Reading and Bristol City occupied the Fourth Division promotion places.
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He would stay for another 6 months at Deportivo Riestra before going out on loan. His team would end the 2016–17 season as runners-up and gaining promotion to Primera B Nacional. During 2017 Herrera would spend a semester on loan at Venezuelan side Atlético Venezuela, facing his first international experience. His highlight in the Caracas side would be their debut at CONMEBOL competitions at that season's Copa Sudamericana, in which Herrera scored the winning goal against Palestino.
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Henry Demarest Lloyd as a young reporter in 1872. In 1872, Lloyd joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune, gaining promotion to the position of chief editorial writer in 1875. He remained at the paper until 1885. Lloyd was one of the precursors to the later muckraker journalists, writing a searing exposé of the monopolistic abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, "The Story of a Great Monopoly," published in the March 1881 issue of The Atlantic.
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The league system changed completely in 1955. East Germany followed the example of the Soviet Union and switched to a calendar year system, resulting in a shortened autumn competition for 1955 only with a single division, fourteen-team format. From the 1956 season the league continued to operate as a single division format with the top two teams gaining promotion. After the 1960 season, the league reverted to the traditional system of playing from autumn to spring.
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The club had three senior sides playing in the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition. The 1st XI narrowly missed promotion in 2010 to the first division and played in the newly formed second division of this competition in 2011. The 2nd XI won promotion in 2010 and played in the 1st division of the LDCC on a Saturday. The 3rd XI played on a Sunday, in the 3rd XI Sunday premier division after gaining promotion in 2009.
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Arthur Rowe resigned due to health reasons in December 1962 and the club appointed former player Dick Graham as manager. The 1962–63 season saw Palace finish eleventh, before gaining promotion to the Second Division the following season after finishing second behind Coventry City on goal average.Matthews, p. 93–95 For the following four seasons Palace achieved respectable top half finishes in the Second Division, during which they appointed Bert Head as their new manager in April 1966.
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Whitehead signed for Championship club Middlesbrough on 2 July 2013 on a two-year contract. Manager Tony Mowbray revealed that Whitehead's experience of gaining promotion from the Championship twice was the key reason in signing him. Upon joining the club, he was given a number eighteen shirt ahead of a new season. Whitehead made his Middlesbrough debut, where he started the whole game, in a 2–1 loss against Leicester City in the opening game of the season.
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Having finished in the top six for each of the past three season, Wigan suffered something of a slump under former player Paul Jewell, finishing tenth. Jewell spent heavily in the summer in an attempt to build a squad capable of gaining promotion. Defender Arjan de Zeeuw was named Wigan's player of the season for the second season running. At the end of the season, he left on a free transfer to join First Division Portsmouth.
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William Nugent Macnamara or M'Namara (c.1776 – 11 November 1856) was an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Irish MP Francis Macnamara of Doolin and was educated at a Dublin seminary. He entered the local militia as a captain of grenadiers, later gaining promotion to major. He was appointed High Sheriff of Clare for 1798–99, successfully keeping order during the Irish rebellion, and succeeded his father in 1815 as landlord of Doolin.
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Under his chairmanship, the Balmazújvárosi FC was re-established in 2011. The club received 1.2 billion HUF public funds as a backing to develop the club's stadium and the team from 2011 to 2016. Balmazújváros finished second in the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season thereby gaining promotion to the highest level of the Hungarian League system. After spending a year in Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the club relegated to the second level and went into bankrupt by 2018.
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Halliwell signed for St Johnstone in August 2006. He made his league debut for Saints on 5 August 2006, against Clyde, his former club. He kept a clean sheet in a goalless draw. After leaving St Johnstone he teamed up with his former manager at Clyde, Billy Reid, at Hamilton Academical where he went on to make a useful contribution to the team's successful season in the First Division, gaining promotion to the Scottish Premier League.
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Manchester United Women Football Club is a professional football club based in the Salford suburb of Broughton, Greater Manchester, England, around 1.5 miles from Manchester city centre, that competes in the Women's Super League (WSL), the top tier of English women's football, after gaining promotion from the Championship at the end of the 2018–19 season. They are based at Leigh Sports Village, although the team is expected to move to The Cliff once redevelopment work is completed.
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FK Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit () was an Azerbaijani football club based in Sumqayit. They were founded in 2003 and won the Azerbaijan First Division title the same year, gaining promotion to the Azerbaijan Premier League. They spent four seasons in the top flight, finishing 12th, 11th, 12th and final 13th in their final season. The club was dissolved in July 2008.“Gənclərbirliyi” klubu fəaliyyətini dayandırdı They were managed by Afgan Talybov, whilst Ilgar Nuriyev was the club's chairman.
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He joined Charlton Athletic in July 1985 and was a regular member of the side who came runners-up in Division 2 in 1985–86, thus gaining promotion to the First Division. In 1986–87, Shipley managed to hang on to his place in the team who struggled to avoid relegation. He then joined Gillingham for the next two seasons, before returning to Lincoln City on a non-contract basis for a short period at the end of 1989.
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The club became founder members of the new Football League Third Division in the 1920–21 season, finishing as champions and gaining promotion to the Second Division. This achievement meant they joined Preston North End, Small Heath, Liverpool, and Bury as the only clubs to win a championship in their first season as a league club. Palace then moved to the purpose-built stadium Selhurst Park in 1924, where the club still play their home games today.King, pp.
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It was the second time in a row that Ampthill were in the playoffs after somewhat ironically finishing second in National League 2 South the previous season. Bishop's Stortford lost a close game at Dillingham Park 10-19, with Ampthill gaining promotion to National League 1 for the 2015-16 season. In terms of attendances, National League 2 South had a total of 94,033 fans turning up for games across the season - up 14,405 from the previous season.
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The 2009-10 season was a very successful one for Wasps FC. Fielding two senior men's sides, the first XV won promotion from Herts & Middlesex 1 into London 3 North West and the second XV won the Middlesex Merit Table 5 League, gaining promotion into the Middlesex Merit Table 4 league in the process. On the back of these successes it was announced the club would once again be fielding a third XV for the 2010-11 season.
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Rimini spent the next twenty-four seasons in the Serie C league system, dropping as low as C2/C at one point. However, the 2000s proved to be a brighter time for Rimini; they reached the C2/B playoffs six successive times before gaining promotion to C1/A. In 2004–05, they became Serie C champions (as well as Serie C1 Super Cup winners) and returned to Serie B for the first time since the early 1970s.
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The 2008–09 season was the seventy-seventh season in which football club Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League, and the fifty-ninth since the club's return to the League in 1950. Gillingham finished the season in fifth place in Football League Two, gaining promotion to League One through play-off victories over Rochdale (over two legs) and Shrewsbury Town. The club also reached the third round of the FA Cup, before being defeated by Aston Villa.
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In 2010 Paul March led Hunslet to their first silverware for over 11 years by securing the Co-operative Championship 1 title, and subsequent survival in 2011. In 2012, Barry Eaton took over as coach. In 2014 Hunslet won the Grand Final after extra time against Oldham, thus gaining promotion to the Championship. Barry Eaton left in late January 2016 to join Leeds Rhinos and was replaced by his assistant coach and former Hunslet Hawks player Matt Bramald.
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The winner of each of those four groups were promoted. In 1992 there was 13 teams in four groups with the group winner gaining promotion. Qualified to this play-off were the ten Oberliga champions, the runners-up from Oberliga Nord and two teams from 2. Bundesliga. In 1993 and 1994 the ten Oberliga champions and the runners-up from Oberliga Nord played in three groups, two times four and one time three, for three promotion spots.
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KSZO joined the C klasa, the lowest level of regional leagues in Poland at the time, in 1932 gaining promotion to B klasa the same year. In 1934, the club was promoted to A klasa, the top regional level. In 1937, it was moved to the Kraków Regional Football Association as the regional association based in Kielce the club hitherto belonged to was disbanded. Having resumed activity after World War II, the club participated in lower-level regional leagues.
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Fulham United FC is a football club based in Fulham, South Australia. Fulham United are currently in the South Australian State League 1 competition, after gaining promotion from the South Australian State League 2 competition in 2017. Their senior women’s team plays in the elite FFSA Women's National Premier League. In October of 2019 Jenna McCormick, who played in Fulham’s NPL team was selected for the Australian national women’s team to play in two friendly international matches against Chile.
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In 2013 the club installed a state of the art indoor 3G pitch inside their sporting complex, which is now the envy of many clubs in South Wales. Risca RFC won the 2009-10 Division 4 East title on 18 May 2010 and won promotion to Division 3 East. Under the guidance of head coach Tyrone Morris, in 2013/2014 Risca RFC won Division 3 East title gaining promotion into Division 1 of the revised league structure.
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Kolding IF is an association football club based in Kolding, Denmark. The team competes in the Danish 1st Division, the second-tier of Danish football, after gaining promotion at the end of the 2018–19 season. Founded in 1895, Kolding IF played in the top-flight 1982 and 1983 Danish 1st Division championships. In 2002, they joined forces with Kolding Boldklub, the other major football club in Kolding, to form the cooperative Kolding FC first team.
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In their first season in the United Football League Division 1 after gaining promotion the Red Phoenix finished in fifth place behind Kaya FC and ahead of Green Archers United with a total of 28 points. In the 2013 UFL Cup Pachanga Diliman FC managed to reach the finals of the competition, beating former champions Stallions FC, Air Force and Forza FC on their way, in order to set up a final match against the Loyola Meralco Sparks.
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Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica S.E.F. Tempio Pausania (formerly U.S. Tempio) is an Italian association football club located in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia. Its colours are all-blue. The club played the 2006–07 season in Serie D/Division B, placing first and gaining promotion to Serie C2. After the regular season, Tempio took part to the Scudetto Dilettanti tournament along with the other 8 divisional champions and won it, with a 4–1 win against Neapolis in the final.
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The season following Allardyce's sacking in 1997, Mellon moved up a division to join Tranmere Rovers, who were then playing in Division One, for a fee of £300,000. He spent two seasons at Prenton Park, followed by another two with Burnley, whom he joined for £350,000 gaining promotion finishing second to Preston North End. He returned to Tranmere Rovers in March 2001 initially on loan, and then on a free transfer. He was released in May 2004.
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Winners of North Division One and South Division One playing in National final with eventual winner gaining promotion to National Division One (2nd tier). 2007: South Division One once again becomes the second tier of Shinty with the folding of National Division One. Champions guaranteed promotion to the Premier Division. 2014: South Division One once again becomes the third tier of Shinty with the reinstatement of National Division One with South Division One champions being promoted through a play-off win.
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Connacht and Ulster teams can compete in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (tier 1) by gaining promotion through the tiers of hurling – the Christy Ring Cup (tier 2), the Nicky Rackard Cup (tier 3) and the Lory Meagher Cup (tier 4). Connacht Senior Hurling Championship This competition is no longer organised. Galway represent Connacht and participate in the Leinster Championship. Ulster Senior Hurling Championship Although this competition takes place, it is not part of the All- Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.
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In 2015, the club debuted in the Amateur League of Ukraine, finishing in the eight best teams of the tournament and in 2016 they repeated in reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament. The club was admitted to the PFL in 2016 and won the 2016–17 Ukrainian Second League. gaining promotion to Ukrainian First League. On 4 May 2018, three matchdays before the end of 2017–18 Ukrainian First League season, PFL informed that the club withdrew from the competition due to dissolution.
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In 1997 McCarthy helped his club Castlelyons to the final of the county junior championship. A late point from a penalty earned Castlelyons a hard-fought 2–9 to 1–11 victory over Courcey Rovers. It was McCarthy's first championship medal. After gaining promotion to the intermediate grade, Castlelyons qualified for the decider at the first time of asking in 1998. A 2–12 to 2–9 defeat of Killeagh gave Castlelyons the victory and gave McCarthy a championship medal.
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The Bristol & District Cricket Association (BDCA or B&D;) is an English cricket association that organises league and cup competitions in the Bristol area. The association covers Bristol, as well as parts of South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The league competition serves as a feeder league to the West of England Premier League (WEPL) as part of the pyramid structure of club cricket, with the winners of the B&D; Senior Division gaining promotion to the Bristol & North Somerset Division of the WEPL.
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Spelthorne Sports Football Club, nicknamed The Spelly, was formed in 1922. The team won the Surrey Elite Intermediate League in the 2010–11 season, gaining promotion to Division One of the Combined Counties League. As well as winning the Surrey Elite Intermediate League title in 2011, the club also won the League Challenge Cup, beating Ripley F.C. in the final. In 2013–14 The Spelly won the Middlesex FA Intermediate Cup, beating Middlesex County Premier side Cricklewood Wanderers 3–0 in the Final.
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The 1973–74 season was the forty-second season in which football club Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League, and the twenty-fourth since the club's return to the League in 1950. Gillingham finished the season as runners-up in the Football League Fourth Division, gaining promotion back to the Third Division three years after dropping down from it. Brian Yeo equalled the club record of 31 Football League goals in a season, set by Ernie Morgan 18 years earlier.
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Gastien played a major role in the 1993–94 season as Châteauroux finished top of the National, achieving promotion to Division 2. He enjoyed the next two seasons, playing in the majority of games for Châteauroux. However, in the 1996–97 season, Gastien's final season as a professional, he played a mediocre six matches as the team won the Division 2 championship, gaining promotion to Division 1. In the summer of 1997, Gastien was released by Châteauroux and subsequently retired.
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Growing up in the Sin el Fil district of Beirut, Azar began his career at Nejmeh Sahraa in 1996, aged 13. He helped his side win the Lebanese Third Division in 2002–03, gaining promotion to the Lebanese Second Division. In 2005, Azar moved to Lebanese Premier League club Safa. He helped the club lift their first two league titles, in 2011–12 and 2012–13, their first two Lebanese Elite Cups (2009 and 2012), and their first Lebanese Super Cup (2013).
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2013 Regional League Division 2 was contested by the five regional league winners and runners up of the 3rd level championships of Thailand. The one best 3rd placed teams from the regional leagues also take part Twelve teams were split into two groups of A & B, with the top two teams from group A & B gaining promotion to the Yamaha League-1 for the 2014 campaign, along with this, the two group winners would play off to determine the overall champions.
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After the Second World War, Lytham rejoined the Lancashire Combination Division Two, finishing in the top half of the league in every season through to 1959, gaining promotion to Division One. They were relegated in 1963 to Division Two, which was later renamed Division One, and in 1968, the two leagues were merged. Lytham were again relegated from the combination in 1971, only to rejoin in 1975. In the late 1970s Lytham reached the Third Round of the FA Vase twice.
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Rotherham United kit history. historicalkits.co.uk. Rotherham United play their home games at New York Stadium, a 12,021 capacity all-seater stadium, having previously played since its foundation at Millmoor for 101 years. Joining the Football League back in 1925, Rotherham spent the first 25 years of their time in the Third Division North, the lowest level of the Football League, finally gaining promotion to the Second Division at the end of the 1950–51 season.Rotherham League History 1925 – Present. rotherhamunited-mad.co.uk.
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Stadin Gimmat or HIFK Naiset is the representative women's ice hockey team of the sports club HIFK, based in Helsinki, Finland. They have played in the Naisten Liiga, the premier league for women’s ice hockey in Finland, since gaining promotion from the Naisten Mestis at the end of the 2018–19 season. The team is interchangeably referred to as HIFK, the name of its parent club, and as Stadin Gimmat, meaning the “Girls of Stadi” (Stadi is a nickname for Helsinki).
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Despite this setback, the 1990s were a period of success for the club, going from National League Division 7 to National League Division 3 in consecutive seasons. In 1999, Garnock were runners-up in the national Bowl competition. Success continued into the next decade, with the team gaining promotion to Premiership Division 3, being runners-up in the Shield in 2007 and winning the same competition in 2008. In August 2009, the club announced plans to build a new clubhouse at Lochshore.
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Waterloo FC has a history of high success at Colts level. The most successful team, captained by Tom Benbow and featuring long serving veterans Tom White Jr, Matt Daley, Sean Miller, Martin Bell, Andrew Riley and Mike Bates won their League in the 2002/03 season, gaining promotion and then winning the Lancashire Cup the following season. The team has now largely disbanded and the majority of the members have moved on from the club. Martin Bell is still first team captain.
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During Smee's time as chairman, Reading reached Wembley for the first time, winning the 1988 Full Members' Cup Final as well as gaining promotion from the Fourth Division in 1983–84, winning the Third Division in 1985–86 and achieving the club's highest finish in 1987. In 1990, Smee was replaced as Reading chairman by John Madejski, as a result of the early 1990s recession. In 2013, Smee was awarded an MBE for his work with young people in Berkshire.
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A Landesliga championship in 2004 saw the club promoted to the NOFV- Oberliga Süd (IV) where in their first two seasons of play they earned consecutive 12th place finishes.FC Eilenburg at Fussball.de Tables and results of all German football leagues In 2007, FC earned its best result to date time by finishing third but was relegated back to the Sachsenliga in 2009 where it played until the 2016–17, gaining promotion back to the NOFV-Oberliga Süd, the fifth tier of German football.
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Clough joined Nottingham Forest in January 1975, following spells with Brighton and the famous 44 days in charge at Leeds Utd. Clough took over from Mackay's initial replacement Allan Brown, with Forest struggling in the Second Division. In 1977–78, Forest won the First Division title in their first season after gaining promotion from the Second Division, having won the League Cup earlier in the 1977–78 season. In 1978–79, Forest retained the League Cup and won the European Cup.
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Brough was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and began his career with Huddersfield Town in 1913. His career at Huddersfield was hampered by World War I but once the league had resumed he helped the "Terriers" finish 2nd in 1919–20 gaining promotion to the First Division. Herbert Chapman came in as manager and Brough lost his place in the side being used as a back up player. In February 1923 he joined Stoke City after he had an unsuccessful trial with Manchester United.
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Yeovil United Football Club are an English women's association football club based in Yeovil, Somerset and play in the . Prior to moving to the FA WSL in 2013, the club played in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division after gaining promotion from the South West Combination Women's Football League for a second time in 2012. The team currently plays their home matches between two stadiums: Huish Park, home of Yeovil Town, and the Cygnet Health Care Stadium, home of Taunton Town.
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However Jones tailed off in 2015, only managing to find the net twice. Due to Cardiff cutting costs, Jones was loaned to league leaders Bournemouth for the remainder of the season, despite being Cardiff's top goal scorer. Jones scored on his debut for the Cherries on 3 April 2015 helping them to earn a 1–1 draw against Ipswich Town. Jones made six substitute appearances for the Cherries as they won the Championship title, gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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In 1964, almost a decade after the previous Coedpoeth team had folded, Coedpoeth Sports Club entered Welsh National League Wrexham Area Division 3. Managed by Councillor Bob Squire, Coedpoeth SC were immediately successful and were champions in their first season, gaining promotion to Division 2. Their stay in Division 2 lasted two seasons; in 1967 they were champions and promoted again. The club lasted five seasons in Division 1 before finishing 15th in 1972 and dropping two tiers back to Division 3.
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In 1922, he was transferred to Manchester United for a fee of £5,000. He spent an injury-plagued six years at Old Trafford, making 140 League appearances and scoring four goals for the club. While Barson's United appearances were punctuated by injury, when he did play he was known for his on-field leadership, being selected as captain and helping United to win promotion at the end of 1924–25. For gaining promotion he was given a pub in Manchester.
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Since 1952 they have also played an annual challenge game, the Colours Match against their rivals Dublin University. In 1993 when the AIB League was expanded to four divisions to include forty six senior clubs, UCD and four other university clubs joined the league. In 2001 UCD won the AIB League Division 2 title, gaining promotion to Division 1. They have continued to play in the same division until the 2008/09 season when they finished second from bottom and were relegated.
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The second team of Borussia Dortmund initially played at the Kreisliga and was promoted to the Bezirksliga in 1957. After a third-place finish in 1957, they were promoted into the Landesliga Westfalen in 1964. In 1969, Borussia Dortmund II won the Landesliga Westfalen eight points clear of Teutonia Lippstadt, gaining promotion into the Westfalenliga, the highest amateur league in Westphalia at the time. Three years later, the team got relegated into the Landesliga, and even into the Bezirksliga in 1974.
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Between 1878 and 1881 he served as a regimental and brigade adjutant and as adjutant to the King Albert of Saxony. In 1881, he was appointed battery commander in the 19th (2nd Royal Saxon) Foot Artillery Regiment. He served from 1884 to 1889 as an instructor at the Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin, gaining promotion to major in 1887. In 1889 he returned to the 12th (1st Royal Saxon) Field Artillery Regiment as commander of the 1st Abteilung (equivalent to Battalion).
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The 2016–17 season was Burton Albion's 67th season in their history and first ever in the Championship after gaining promotion the previous season. Along with competing in the Championship, the club also participated in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The club finished 20th in the league table, was knocked out the third round of the FA Cup and knocked out of the second round of the EFL Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
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Lee's former Liverpool captain, Graeme Souness, invited Lee to join his Anfield coaching staff in 1993. He did so with relish and gained respect to the extent that both Roy Evans and Gérard Houllier kept him on the payroll after Souness left, gaining promotion from reserve team coach to the first team, under Houllier. Lee became a part-time coach under Sven-Göran Eriksson with England in 2001, eventually leaving Liverpool to go full-time with the national set-up in July 2004.
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In July 2012, Roubakis joined another Cretan football club, Rethymno-based Episkopi, which became Delta Ethniki Group 10 champions in 2012 and was promoted to the Football League 2 for the first time in history. In Episkopi, he reunited with former OFI teammate Thanasis Kolitsidakis, who was working there as the club's manager – however, despite 18 league appearances and the club gaining promotion to the following season's Football League, Roubakis did not renew his contract and was released on June 2013.
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In August 2013, he came back to Dinamo II, now playing in the Liga III, with the objective of gaining promotion to Liga II. On 22 September 2013, Stoican was appointed as head coach at the main squad of FC Dinamo București. His contract was ended by mutual agreement on 12 November 2014, when the club was placed sixth in Liga I and was eliminated from the Romanian Cup. From March to May 2015, Stoican had another brief spell in charge of Dinamo.
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The club spent eight seasons in the Bezirksoberliga before winning the league in 2004 and gaining promotion to the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte for the first time. In the Landesliga, the club performed well, too, archiving a fifth place in its first season. The following two seasons saw the club finishing third both times. Bayernliga promotion was finally achieved when the club won the Landesliga in 2008. After a 29-year absence, Bayernliga football returned therefore to the city of Erlangen.
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London & South East Premier is the highest regional rugby union league covering London and south east England. The club that finishes in first place is automatically promoted to National League 2 South. The runner- up meets the second placed team of South West Premier with the winner also gaining promotion. Relegated teams drop down to either London 1 North or London 1 South depending on location, and other factors such as the location of relegated and promoted teams in other divisions.
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The rebuilt side included youngsters and big money signings like Ian Wallace, Raimondo Ponte, Peter Ward and Justin Fashanu, which failed to work out. The club did not challenge for trophies and Forest finished 12th in the First Division in the 1981–82 season, their lowest finish since gaining promotion in 1977. At the end of the season Taylor announced his retirement. Taylor said in 1982:"Peter Taylor Leaves Nottingham Forest 1982" Trainer Jimmy Gordon retired in the same close season.
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Winterburn was born in Arley, Warwickshire. He began his career with Birmingham City but never played for the first team, though he did earn youth caps for England while with the club. He joined Oxford United, but never played for their first team either, and then in 1983 he was signed on a free transfer by Dave Bassett to join Wimbledon, who were on a steady climb up the divisions after gaining promotion from the non-league pyramid six years earlier.
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The watching crowd believed the result to be sufficient for promotion, but Portsmouth's match had been delayed by 15 minutes and was still in progress. A late Portsmouth goal meant the final scoreline in their match was a 5–1 win, enough to give Portsmouth second place on goal average by a margin of one two- hundredth of a goal.James, Manchester City – The Complete Record, p. 116. The club won the Second Division championship the following season, gaining promotion to the top flight.
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Since making his debut for the club, Eze quickly became a first team regular for the side, where he rotated in different midfield positions. Eze scored his first ever senior goal on 7 October 2017, netting a brace for Wycombe against Cambridge United. His goal against Cambridge United earned him a nomination for Sky Bet League 2 Goal of the Month for October. He made a total of 20 appearances and played a part in Wycombe gaining promotion that season.
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Mellon began his career in 1989 as a 17-year-old with Bristol City gaining promotion to the old Second Division, then managed by Joe Jordan. In 1991, he was loaned out for two months to League of Ireland club Cork City, making his League of Ireland debut on 20 October 1991. He made eleven league appearances for Cork, scoring three goals. He spent four years at Ashton Gate, before joining Midlanders West Bromwich Albion in 1993 for a fee of £75,000.
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Júpiter Leonés is the reserve team of the club. Founded in 1929, later known as Cultural de León and finally changed to its current name Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa "B" Jupiter Leonés. After the 2009–10, the team was dissolved after Cultural was relegated to Tercera División due to its debts. In 2014, it was re-founded as the reserve team and after three promotions it currently plays in Tercera División, the fourth tier, after gaining promotion in the Primera División Regional de Aficionados 2017-2018 season.
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During their short stay in the League of Ireland, Sporting Fingal were relatively successful. As well as gaining promotion to the Premier Division, they also won both the 2009 FAI Cup and the 2010 A Championship Cup and qualified for the UEFA Europa League on two occasions. In addition to fielding teams in the League of Ireland, Sporting Fingal also organised Powerchair Football, Special Olympics football and futsal teams. Their futsal team won the 2010 FAI Futsal Cup and qualified for the 2010–11 UEFA Futsal Cup.
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Fitzroy Baseball Club had a fantastic season winning the Baseball Victoria's Division 2 Club Championship Award and gaining promotion to division 1. The club championship reflected the club's depth throughout all grades, after the home and away season the 1sts finished second, the 2nds finished on top of the ladder, the 3rds went undefeated throughout the season, the 4ths finished second and the 5ths finished fifth; resulting in three premierships. The award was a fitting tribute to the 120 year anniversary of the club.
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The club spent two seasons in Division two before gaining promotion back to one as runners-up at the end of the 2004–05 competition. The club then followed this success the next season with promotion back to the premier division. The club remained in the Premier Division until the end of the 2011–12 season, when, after losing 15 games in a row, they were relegated to division one. The 2012–13 season saw the club relegated again for a second successive season.
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The Brooklyn Celtic, also known as the Brooklyn Celtics and Celtic F.C., was an early twentieth century American football team which competed in the New York Amateur Association Football League. They won the second division in 1910–1911, gaining promotion to the first division. They proved their worth as a first division team in the 1911–1912 season when they tied New York Clan MacDonald for second place. The two teams met in a playoff for sole position of second, with Clan MacDonald winning 1–0.
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Oxhey Jets Football Club was formed in 1972 as a youth team, before progressing into a senior team in the early 1980s. The Jets joined the Herts Senior County League in 1981, competing in Division One. After gaining promotion in 1989, the club spent fifteen seasons in the Premier Division before being rewarded with a place in the Spartan South Midlands League in 2004. The 2004–05 season saw The Jets gain their second successive promotion when they became Spartan South Midlands League Division One champions.
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Paul Jewell ended Bradford City's 77-year wait for a return to the top division. Graham Taylor took Watford into the Premiership as they won the Division One playoffs and secured their second successive promotion. Kevin Keegan finished his spell as Fulham manager by guiding them to the Division Two title with 101 points, before quitting to concentrate on his role as England manager. Ray Graydon pulled off a major surprise in his first season as Walsall manager by gaining promotion to Division One.
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The club was formed in 1946 from Brae Lochaber (formed 1887) and Spean Bridge (formed 1894). The constituent clubs then split between 1949 and 1958 before amalgamating again in 1958. These two clubs were very prominent in the first days of organised shinty. Brae won the MacTavish Cup thrice in the 1920s. The club became a strong force in shinty again in the early 2000s, knocking out Kingussie from the Camanachd Cup quarter finals in 2004 and gaining promotion to the Premier Division the same year.
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Curzon Ashton Football Club is an association football club based in Ashton- under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. Founded in 1963 and nicknamed "the Nash", the club is affiliated to the Manchester Football Association and currently competes in the National League North. Curzon Ashton won Division One North of the Northern Premier League in the 2013–14 season, and the Premier Division play-offs in the 2014–15 season, thereby gaining promotion to the National League North. Home matches have been played at Tameside Stadium since 2005.
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A left back who can also operate as a winger, Belhadj began his career at Ligue 1 club Lens, where he failed to make the first-team. He joined Ligue 2 FC Gueugnon on loan in 2002 and after making 26 league appearances signed permanently in 2003. Belhadj played 36 more Ligue 2 games for Gueugnon before moving to CS Sedan in 2004. Making more than thirty appearances in each of his two full seasons with Sedan in Ligue 2, gaining promotion in the second.
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Vincenti returned to the first-team on 21 January 2017, appearing as a half-time substitute in Rochdale's 4–0 home defeat to Oxford United. He scored his only goal of the season in the club's 4–1 win over Gillingham on 18 March 2017. Vincenti made 16 appearances during the injury-disrupted season. During his four years at Rochdale, Vincenti scored 32 times in 152 games, with the club gaining promotion and establishing themselves as a League One team during his time there.
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Andre Alves became top-scorer and champion in 2010 Győr-Videoton in 2004 This was the beginning of a period for the club, which saw them go upwards and develop. After winning the Second Division and gaining promotion in 2000, the teamed once again reached the cup final in 2001, losing 5–2 to Debrecen. This led to the team's only participation in the Intertoto Cup, where they were defeated by Marek Dupnitsa in the first round. In 2005, the club changed its name to FC Fehérvar.
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After earning his doctorate, MacVicar returned to Stillwater to take a position as an assistant professor of agricultural chemistry research and chemistry, later gaining promotion to a full professorship. He remained at Oklahoma State until 1964. Concurrently with his professorship at Oklahoma State, MacVicar became involved in school administration, taking on the role of dean of the graduate school in 1953. He continued to serve in that capacity until his departure from Stillwater in 1964. From 1957 he also served as vice president for academic affairs.
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The 1904-1905 St Helens R.F.C. season was the club's tenth in the Northern Rugby Football Union, the 31st in the club's sporting history. A year after gaining promotion back to the first division, ST Helens once again struggled, and finished second-bottom to suffer another relegation. St Helens also competed in the end-of-season South West Lancashire mini-league, but could only finish fourth out of six. In the Challenge Cup, St Helens were beaten in the second round by Broughton Red Rose.
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Joining the Western League Division Two for the 1948–49 season, United won the division at their first attempt, gaining promotion to Division One. The following season, they finished above their local rivals Chippenham Town for what was to be the only time in the club's history. United's best league finish was in 1950–51, when they finished fourth, with Town in third position. The following seasons were less successful, and they only escaped relegation in 1955–56 due to expansion of Division One.
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Fraserburgh Cricket Club was founded in 1862 and currently competes in the Aberdeenshire Grades Leagues. They play their home matches at Kessock Park. The club celebrated their 150th anniversary in 2012 and also succeeded in gaining promotion to Grade 2. In 2013, Fraserburgh Cricket Club won the Bon Accord Cup for only the second time in their history with a close but in the end comfortable victory over Knightriders CC, thanks to a man of the match performance from Fraser Lawrance, bowling 5-6 off ten overs.
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The current club was established in 1910, although an earlier version of the club was playing in the Newcastle and District Amateur League until resigning in December 1904.History Heaton Stannington F.C. They did not join a league until 1913, when they entered the Tyneside Minor League. The following season the club switched to Division Two of the Northern Amateur League. After gaining promotion to Division One, the club won the league's Challenge Cup in 1935–36 before winning the league title the following season.
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Laws remained with the Iron for the 2004–05 season, which Scunthorpe started in the newly rebranded Football League Two. This gamble ultimately paid off, with the Iron gaining promotion to Football League One as runners up. This was the first time that a Scunthorpe side had obtained automatic promotion in 22 years. Another highlight of this season came with the Iron leading Chelsea, the Premiership champions, 0–1, in the FA Cup 3rd round at Stamford Bridge thanks to an 8th minute Paul Hayes goal.
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He finished his career at City with 45 appearances and one goal before being signed by Gillingham on 4 August 1995 by manager Tony Pulis and was subsequently named as the club captain. He finished the 1995–96 season by gaining promotion to the Second Division and left on 30 July 1996 to join Leyton Orient. He left after making 10 appearances on 11 October to join Northampton, who loaned him out to Brighton & Hove Albion on 27 March 1997 and made one appearance.
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The SV Waldhof II, historically also referred to as SV Waldhof Amateure, rose to the tier-IV league Verbandsliga Nordbaden in 1986 and remained there until gaining promotion to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2001. After two seasons in the Oberliga with good results, the team had to be withdrawn due to the forced relegation of the first team. In the 2007–08 season, the team narrowly missed out on Verbandsliga promotion when it finished second on equal points to the SV Sandhausen II.
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The soccer club first appeared in 1958 as a youth team, and the first senior side competed in the 1961 NSW amateur championship that it won by 8 points. The club gradually moved up the ranks in the NSW soccer system, eventually gaining promotion to the NSW 1st Division in 1970. By this point the club had come of age. Marconi became back-to-back champions of the NSW 1st Division in 1972 and 1973, and continued to challenge for honours up until 1976.
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The 2008–09 season was Stoke City's first season in the Premier League and the 53rd in the top tier of English football. After gaining promotion to the Premier League for the first time, Stoke were immediately tipped to go straight back down by the media. Dave Kitson became the first signing and he was followed by Seyi Olofinjana, Thomas Sørensen, Amdy Faye, Abdoulaye Faye and the returning Danny Higginbotham. Stoke started the campaign at Bolton Wanderers and were dealt a harsh reality check losing 3–1.
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Rauman Lukko Naiset is the representative women's ice hockey team of the ice hockey and ringette club Lukko, based in Rauma, Finland. They play in the Naisten Liiga, the premier women's hockey league in Finland, where they have competed since gaining promotion in the 2016–17 Naisten Liiga qualifiers. The team has faced relegation three times in their four seasons in the Naisten Liiga but have saved themselves in the Karsintasarja each time. Lukko has not made its debut in the Naisten Liiga playoffs as of 2020.
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Old Belvedere won the Leinster Senior League title in 1992–93, gaining promotion to the All-Ireland League Division 2. This team was coached by Donal Spring and featured Bruce Deans. In 2006–07, with a team captained by Scott Hutton and featuring Andrew Dunne, Old Belvedere won their eleventh Leinster Senior Cup after a lapse of thirty nine years. Old Belvedere won the 2010–11 All-Ireland League title after defeating Cork Constitution 20–17 in the final at Donnybrook Stadium on 1 May 2011.
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F.C. Strombeek first registered at the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1932. After many seasons played at the lower levels of Belgian football, Strombeek first reached the third division by winning the Promotion D – Belgium's 4th highest level of football – in 1995–96. After three seasons at that level, they won the third division A in 1999–2000, gaining promotion to the second division for the first time in their history. They finished at the 10th place in the second division in 2000–01.
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The 1991–92 season of the NOFV-Oberliga was the first season of the league at tier three (III) of the German football league system after German reunification. The NOFV-Oberliga was split into three divisions, NOFV-Oberliga Nord, NOFV-Oberliga Mitte and NOFV-Oberliga Süd. The champions of each division entered into a play-off with the champion of the Oberliga Nord, VfL Wolfsburg. Each team played each other home and away, with Wolfsburg gaining promotion to the 1992–93 2. Fußball-Bundesliga.
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Navan won their first trophy, the Ryan Cup in 1930. They also won the Provincial Town Cup ten times between 1964 and 2008. Navan won their first Leinster League Division 1A which entered them into the inter- provincial play-offs to enter the All-Ireland League but were unsuccessful in gaining promotion. In 2009, they won the Leinster title again and in the play- offs, they defeated City of Derry, Cashel and Monivea to earn qualification into the All-Ireland League for the first time.
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They also reached the final of the East Riding Senior Country Cup final but lost out to the team they were ahead of in the league. The 2017–18 season will see them play in the premier division of the Humber Premier League after gaining promotion by winning division one in the 2016–17 season. Hornsea Town have eight teams including a First Team (HPL Premier Div), Reserves (East Riding County League), Veterans (Hull & District Veterans Football League) and a Sunday Team (Hull Men's Sunday Football League).
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The Bracknell Bees were formed in 1987, under the ownership of John Nike OBE. Bees began life in the Heineken League Division Two, under the leadership of former Durham Wasps and Nottingham Panthers forward, Jamie Crapper, where they finished 6th. The following season, Heineken withdrew their sponsorship of the second division, which was renamed the English League Division 1. Bees narrowly missed out on the championship to the Humberside Seahawks, but then won the league the following season, gaining promotion to the Heineken League Division 1.
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Helsingin Palloseura (HPS) won the Finnish football championship (Mestaruussarja) 9 times and they also played in the European Cup, against Stade de Reims in 1958–59. In 1999 they were forced to abandon their place in the Kakkonen and reformed in Section 1 of the Seiska for the 2000 season. In their first season they finished in ninth place in their section and spent two more seasons at this level before gaining promotion at the end of the 2002 campaign under player coach Harri Hiltunen.
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That year Atletico Catania reached a fourth place, not enough for gaining promotion. However, little before the beginning of season 2006–07, Atletico Catania won the title of the Sant'Agata li Battiati making them applicable to play in the Prima Categoria. The new club ended its 2006–07 campaign in eighth place. The club was renamed as U.S.D. Atletico Catania for the 2007–08 season, that saw the atletisti winning the Round F of Prima Categoria league, being thus promoted to Promozione for the 2008–09 season.
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The 2020–21 III liga is the 13th season of the fourth tier domestic division in the Polish football league system since its establishment in 2008 under its current title (III liga) and the fifth season under its current league division format. The competition was contested by 84 clubs split geographically across 4 groups, with the winners of each group gaining promotion to the II liga. The season was played in a round-robin tournament. It began in August 2020 and will end in June 2021.
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It is a deep fall for a club that once was the number three in Augsburg football, behind FC Augsburg and TSV Schwaben. In the 2007–08 season, the TSG's fortunes improved and the club managed to dominate and win its division, gaining promotion. After a second-place finish in the tier-ten Kreisklasse in 2009–10 the club gained promotion back to the Kreisliga for the first time since 2001. It lasted for two seasons at this level before being relegated again in 2012.
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Piacenza Football Club was founded in 1919 with Giovanni Dosi as the first club president. Dosi was an ambitious manager, taking control of every social, technical, and administrative aspect of the club, with the sole focus at bringing the club into the national championship under the FIGC. After spending much of the club's early life in the regional leagues, they entered into Serie C for the 1935–36 season, coming close to gaining promotion into Serie B during 1938 but lost out to Fanfulla.
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The club has gained promotion to the Premier League one three separate occasions; first in 1995, then again in 1997, with each term lasting for only one season on each occasion, before again gaining promotion in 2001. The club has played at the highest level in English football on a permanent basis since then. Since playing their first competitive match, more than 850 players have made a competitive first-team appearance for the club, many of whom have played between 25 and 99 matches (including substitute appearances).
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In 1920–1923 most of the matches Jagiellonia played were either friendlies or small tournaments in Białystok. The club joined the regular league in 1924, starting in klasa B in the Vilnius OZPN district. The season was a success, winning the first season and gaining promotion to klasa A. Due to a pause in the league there were no games in 1925. In 1926, the league started up again with the team being in klasa A. The team was doing well getting third in the following season.
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In 2004 the team produced the best season ever as they completed the season undefeated, winning both the League title and the Grand Final and thus finally gaining promotion to the Premier League. Life in the Premier League was always going to be a challenge but not one that the Club was afraid of. In the first year of Premier League football the club surprised many of the well established teams throughout the season. The team finished only a few points away from the top four.
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The IRFU held four talent identification days across Ireland in January 2015. The IRFU announced in May 2015 its brand new 27-man squad for the 2015 season, selected out of a pool of more than 300 applicants, a squad that later became known as “The Originals”."Ireland Men’s Sevens Squad And Structures Announced", Irish Rugby, 19 May 2015. The new team started at the bottom, beginning the 2015 season in Europe's Division C, with an eye towards gaining promotion to higher levels of competition.
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In spite of winning the division in 1989–90 Pazinka failed to progress further up the football pyramid and remained at fourth level until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. Following Croatia's independence in 1991 Pazinka entered one of the three regional divisions of the newly formed 2. HNL in the shortened 1992 season and finished top, thus gaining promotion to top level in 1992–93. They finished their debut top level season in 11th place but were then relegated in the 1993–94 season.
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Polisportiva S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927, based in Rome, is an Italian rugby union team. They currently play in Top12 after gaining promotion from winning Serie A in the 2009–10 season. It is the rugby union branch of the multisport club S.S. Lazio, probably the biggest European multisport organization, which operates also the famous association football team with the same name. They were the first XV in Italy established in Rome in 1927, as “S.S. Lazio Rugby”, the rugby section of Lazio Sports Association.
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The club was founded on 1 November 1977 through the merger of Farsta AIK and IF Cobran, hence he abbreviation FoC for “Farsta och Cobran.“ The club provides for bandy, bowling, football and ice hockey. The club's representative women's ice hockey were the Swedish Champions in 1995 and 1997. Since their foundation, FOC Farsta's men's representative football team has participated mainly in the lower divisions of the Swedish football league system before gaining promotion to Division 2 at the end of the 2009 season.
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At the age of 16 in 1982, Beattie joined the Royal Irish Rangers and following training was posted to the 2nd Battalion who were stationed in Wavell Barracks, Berlin. In over 28 years of service rose to the rank of regimental sergeant major. During that time he served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Northern Ireland being awarded the General Officer NI commendation, the Queen's Commendation for Bravery and the NATO Meritorious Service Medal. He was commissioned from the ranks in 2005, gaining promotion to captain.
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Wessels' time in Köln was eventful, with the club relegated in his first season, before immediately gaining promotion back to the 1st division and again being relegated to the 2. Bundesliga the following season. Showing consistently good performances, Wessels was one of the few players to stand out in the squad. However, at the beginning of the 2007–08 season, Colombian goalkeeper Faryd Mondragón signed with the club, and after a fair but intense rivalry, Wessels lost his position as the club's number 1.
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The next season, Guidolin joined Serie B side Vicenza and restored them following a period of decline. After gaining promotion to Serie A at the end of the 1994–95 Serie B, his club finished mid-table the following Serie A season. During the 1996–97 season, Vicenza led the league for a period, eventually achieving an eighth-place finish in Serie A, and won the 1997 Coppa Italia, defeating Napoli 3–1 on aggregate in the two-legged final. It was the club's first domestic trophy.
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They were promoted in 1963–64, only to be relegated after two seasons. They were promoted out of the Fourth Division again at the end of the 1976–77 season and managed to stay in the Third Division for seven seasons before being relegated in 1984. Exeter won their first league title in the 1989–90 season, gaining promotion as Fourth Division champions under the stewardship of Terry Cooper. Relegated in 1994, they lost their Football League status at the end of the 2002–03 season.
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Back to back promotions in 2010/11 and 2011/12 saw the club narrowly miss out on a third promotion in 2012/13. In 2013 there was the opening by WRU CEO Roger Lewis of new changing rooms and floodlights, this proved a worthwhile addition to the club. In the following season Rhiwbina RFC won the Div 2 East title gaining promotion to Div 1. During this season there was an appearance at the Millennium Stadium in the final of the SWALEC Plate Final.
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The 1978–79 season saw Concord Rangers become the inaugural winners of the Essex Sunday Junior Trophy, defeating Bishop's Park 4–0 in a game played at Tiptree United. It was not until 1985 that the club secured land in Thames Road, to initially develop the clubhouse and stadium. In 1988, the club joined the Essex Intermediate League Division Two, where they stayed for three seasons, winning the title in 1990–91 on goal difference and gaining promotion to the Essex Senior League. Concord spent 17 seasons in the Senior League, winning the title three times in that period (1997–98, 2003–04, 2007–08), with the 2007–08 championship win under the joint-management team of Danny Cowley and Danny Scopes seeing the club gaining promotion for the first time in their history to the Isthmian League. The 2007–08 Essex Senior League winning season was the club's 40th anniversary year, and also saw the team win the Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy, reach the final of the Essex Senior League Cup, and also reach the quarter finals of the FA Vase, in which they lost 1–0 to Lowestoft Town.
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In 2001 the merger of the Belmont Basketball Club and a group of U16 players from Belmont School resulted in a club that competed in the Durham County Local League playing with teams in the 1st and 3rd divisions. In 2005 Wildcats were officially founded with a team that competed in the EBL Division 3 North for four seasons. In the first two seasons Wildcats played their home games at Spennymoor Leisure Centre in County Durham. At the start of the 2007-2008 season the team moved to the Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre, which is located in southern Durham. In the 2008-2009 season the Wildcats won a highly competitive, and close-fought, EBL Division 3 North, gaining promotion to EBL Division 2. On 28 February 2010 they won their first national silverware beating Westminster Warriors in the Patron's Cup Final (96-70), that was held at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. They went on to win the League title with 18-2 wins gaining promotion to EBL Division 1. On 25 April 2010 they beat Team Northumbria (70-67) in the Play-offs Final at the Amaechi Basketball Centre, completing the Division 2 Treble.
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He signed for Aldershot Town on a two-year contract in July 2006 and was named as captain by new manager Gary Waddock for the 2007–08 campaign. Day signed a new one-year contract following Aldershot's promotion to the Football League, but in April 2009 it was announced that he would be released at the end of the season. He signed a two-year contract with Oxford United on 23 July. He was transferred to Mansfield Town from Oxford in January 2011 after gaining promotion to the Football League with them.
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The club was founded on 9 November 2002 by Juan Pereira, starting in the third tier of Venezuelan football. In this first season they finished unbeaten, winning the division and gaining promotion. They participated in the Venezuelan Second Division for four seasons, winning promotion at the end of the 2006–07 season when the Venezuelan Premier Division expanded from 10 to 18 teams. In 2008, they won the Copa Venezuela by defeating Estudiantes de Mérida in the final, winning 3–1 on aggregate with goals from Alexander Rondon, Emerson Panigutti and Nicolás Massia.
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After two seasons in the Second Division they completed a remarkable rise gaining promotion to the First Division for the first time in the club's history. James took to the top flight well scoring 14 goals in 46 appearances as Swansea finished in sixth position. However the following season saw Swansea relegated back to the Second Division and James joined Stoke City. He played in 46 matches for Stoke in 1983–84 scoring seven goals but with the team struggling in 1984–85 he was sold to Queens Park Rangers £100,000.
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Born in London in 1896, the son of Teresa and Arthur Ernest Holt, he joined the diplomatic service after studying at university. Holt was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) on 22 April 1914, gaining promotion to Lieutenant on 29 October 1914. After serving in India during World War I, he joined the Iraq Civil Administration in 1919 as an Assistant Political Officer in Sulaimani. During his time in the Kurdish areas of Iraq he learned Kurdish and founded the first Kurdish-language newspaper.
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The following season, Luton became the first-ever champions of the newly named League One, winning 98 points and gaining promotion to the Championship. Newell guided Luton to further success in the 2005–06 season, which saw Luton finish 10th in the Championship – their highest finish since they relegated from the top flight in 1992. Luton also became one of only two clubs to defeat runaway champions Reading. Newell was linked with jobs at several larger clubs, such as Leicester City, but remained at Luton and later signed a four-year contract.
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Homegrown Football Club was a football club in Naivasha, Kenya. . In the 2006–07 season they played in the top level of Kenyan professional football, the Kenyan Premier League, but were relegated. Since 2008 the team has played in the Nationwide League. In 2011, the team's owners, Homegrown Horticulture Company, were acquired by the Finlays Horticulture Company and as such the team's name was changed to Finlays Horticulture Association Football Club, which competed in FKF Division One before gaining promotion to the newly- formed Kenyan National Super League at the end of the 2013 season.
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In 1993 the club played in the Nelonen (Fourth Division) but ceased operations again in 1994. The situation changed dramatically in 2001 when RiPS were forced to withdraw from sporting activities because of financial difficulties. Riihimäen Ilves represented the only hope for football in Riihimäki and under the management of a new board the club began to make progress gaining promotion from the Vitonen (Fifth Division) in 2001 and Nelonen (Fourth Division) in 2002. The club played in the Kolmonen (Third Division) from 2003 until the end of the 2008 season when they were relegated.
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Western Counties North (know as Tribute Western Counties North for sponsorship purposes) is an English rugby union league. Originally a single division called Western Counties, in 1996 the division split into two regional leagues called Western Counties North and Western Counties West. Western Counties North is currently a seventh tier league for clubs based in the south-west of England; mainly Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. The champions are promoted to South West 1 West and the runner-up plays the second team in Western Counties West, with the winning team gaining promotion.
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Huddersfield Town left-back Dominik Werling was born in Ludwigshafen. Formerly the most successful Ludwigshafen football club was FSV Oggersheim, whose team experienced short-term success when gaining promotion to the Regionalliga (3rd Division) at the end of the 2006–07 season. However, the club found itself outclassed, and as the financial situation grew worse after two poor seasons, the club withdrew to 11th tier local level play in 2010–11. , Arminia Ludwigshafen is the highest-classed football club from the city, competing in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V).
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Stoke City Ladies were formed in 2001 and began playing in the West Midlands League Division One, the sixth tier of Woman's football in England. They finished in third position gaining promotion to the West Midlands League Premier Division. They spent the next seven season's in the fifth tier before winning the league title in 2008–09 after amassing 81 points scoring 95 goals and conceding only 14 in just 22 matches. They also won the Staffordshire County Cup four time in a row from 2009 to 2012.
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The club was formed in 1904. In 2004–05, they reached the second round of the FA Vase. They are one of only three teams ever to win the West Riding County Challenge FA Cup three years on the trot – 2001, 2002 and 2003 before joining the NWCFL the following season and gaining promotion at the first attempt into the Premier Division (along with Cammell Laird). The other two teams to have won the West Riding CFA Challenge Cup three times on the trot were Storthes Hall (1998-2000) and Bradford Rovers (1939-41).
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The Reserves are an extension of the club, providing players professional training from the NPSL coaching staff to improve the individual players, while maintaining the playing style and philosophy of the Senior Team. The team includes non-college players from the NPSL Team, adding quality of play and value to player development. 2016–2017 Season. The Revs Reserves played a strong first season in the ADASL, achieving a second-place finish in Division II and gaining promotion to Division I. They also advance to the Perrin Cup Semi-Final, losing to defending Champions Arsenal Atlanta.
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Boyacá Chicó Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Tunja playing in the Categoría Primera A starting from 2018. The club was founded on March 26, 2002 in Bogotá as Deportivo Bogotá Chicó F.C.,Dimayor.com - Historia Primera B named after one of the city's neighborhoods. After gaining promotion from Primera B in 2003 and playing one more season in the capital, the club was relocated to its current ground and renamed Boyacá Chicó F.C. They play their home games at the Estadio de La Independencia stadium.
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After a year in charge he would leave the national side and would return to Portugal to manage Aves for the fourth time in his career. In his fourth spell in charge, he guided the side to a second-place finish in the 2005–06 Liga de Honra thus gaining promotion to the Primeira Liga. His next season proved to be a very difficult one as Aves finished bottom of the 2006–07 Primeira Liga with only twenty two points.bwin LIGA 2006/2007 ZeroZero Retrieved: 20 December 2012.
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The 2011–12 season was the 62nd season in which Crawley Town have played senior football, and the seventh as a fully professional team. It was the first time in the club's history that they competed in The Football League. Crawley Town competed in the Football League Two, the fourth tier of English football, where they finished 3rd, gaining promotion to League One, the third tier of English football. The club also competed in the FA Cup, where they reached the fifth round, prior to being knocked out by then Premier League club Stoke City.
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Martin O'Neill achieved his third promotion in four seasons by winning promotion to the Premiership with Leicester City. Steve McMahon succeeded in getting Swindon Town back into Division One at the first attempt as they were crowned champions of Division Two. Denis Smith built on the success he achieved earlier in his career (with York City and later Sunderland) by gaining promotion to Division One with Oxford United. Gary Peters had a dream start to his reign as Preston North End manager as they were crowned champions of Division Three.
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The Club remains affiliated to both the Middlesex and Surrey County Football Associations. The Club made steady progress through the football league pyramid, eventually gaining promotion to the Surrey County Intermediate League (Western). The Club progressed through the divisions and won the Middlesex Intermediate Cup in season 2000–01 and the Division One title in season 2001–02 (there was no Premier Division at the time). In 2000–01 the Club completed the development of its new Sports Pavilion with the financial support of local businesses and grants from the Football Association and Sport England.
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After initially signing with the Rochester Rhinos for 2014, Horwath instead joined Ljungskile SK in the second division of Sweden. On January 9, 2015, he signed for Norwegian side SK Brann, after spending some days there undergoing tests and trials. Horwath made his debut for SK Brann on April 6, 2015, against Fredrikstad FK, saving a 65th-minute penalty kick from Steffen Nystrøm in a match that ended 1–1. Horwath went on to make 8 appearances for SK Brann in the 2015 season which culminated with Brann gaining promotion to the 2016 Tippeligaen.
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Western Counties West (known as Tribute Western Counties West for sponsorship reasons) is an English rugby union league. Originally a single division called Western Counties, in 1996 the division split into two regional leagues called Western Counties North and Western Counties West. Western Counties West is currently a seventh tier league for clubs based in the south-west of England; mainly Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. The champions are promoted to South West 1 West and the runner-up plays the second team in Western Counties North, with the winning team also gaining promotion.
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Since 1997 Zenith have played in Division 4 until gaining promotion back to Division 3 at the end of the 2009 campaign. The Finnish Futsal League was first played in the 1998–99 season. Zenith's path in the Finnish Futsal began in Autumn 2000, when the players decided that they needed some new challenges for the long winter. Their first two years in the local series proved to be much more successful than anticipated and the club secured the rights to play in the newly formed nationwide Division 1 for the 2002–03 season.
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In 2019 Dewsbury Celtic competed in the Kingstone Press NCL (Division Three) competing against teams from all over the country. Brendan Sheridan and Mark Brierley coached them to win promotion in an outstanding play off final win over Heworth ARLFC gaining promotion to the NCL Division 2. Shortly after this, Celtic toured Australia in November 2019 returning back to England with one win under their belt down under. They beat Penshurst RSL 4 - 10 but fell short in their second battle to De La Salle losing 34 - 10.
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35–36 Nicknames at this point were "Turfites", "Moorites" or "Royalites", as a result of their ground's name and the royal connection. Burnley were relegated to the Second Division for the first time in 1896–97. The team won the division the next season, losing only two of 30 matches before gaining promotion through a four-team play-off series called test matches. The last game against First Division club Stoke was controversial; it finished 0–0 because both clubs needed only a draw to secure a promotion.
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The 2012–13 season of the Belgian Second Division (also known as Belgacom League for sponsorship reasons) began on 22 August 2012 and ended in April 2013. The season was won by Oostende, who were thus promoted to the Belgian Pro League. Mouscron-Péruwelz, Westerlo and WS Woluwe played the second division final round but lost this to Cercle Brugge, resulting in no other team gaining promotion. At the bottom end of the table, Sint-Niklaas and Oudenaarde were relegated, while Heist were saved due to the bankruptcy of Beerschot AC.
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Born in Wargrave, Hatch turned professional with Oxford United in October 1966, making 19 league appearances over the next 7 years. He moved to Exeter City in December 1973, on the same day as Keith Bowker, who he also initially lived with, and went on to make 346 league appearances for the club. He was with the club as they finished runners-up in the 1976–77 Fourth Division, gaining promotion. In 1982 he signed for Maltese club Hamrun Spartans, winning the national title during his first season with them.
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London Welsh Rugby Football Club () was a rugby union club formed in 1885. Based in Old Deer Park, Richmond-upon-Thames, London Welsh RFC played in the English Premiership in the 2012–13 and 2014–15 seasons, after gaining promotion from the RFU Championship in the 2012 and 2014 play-off final. The club returned to Old Deer Park in 2015 after three seasons at the Kassam Stadium, Oxford. The club went into liquidation in December 2016 under Chairman Bleddyn Phillips, and was given a temporary licence to complete two fixtures in the Championship.
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The club joined division one of the Midland League for the 1976–77 season, and staying there until the end of the 1981–82 season. The 1983–84 season saw the club become one of the founding members of the Central Midlands League. After nine seasons the club joined Division Two of the Nottinghamshire Senior League. The 1995–96 season saw the club finish as runners-up in Division Two gaining promotion to Division One, the following season saw another promotion to the Senior Division where they have remained since.
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The club crest when it was known as Ryton F.C. The club was established in 1970 with a single adult team, operating from a local pub. The club joined the Northern Alliance Division Two in 1988, gaining promotion through winning Division One in 1996-7 and the Premier Division to the Northern League Division Two in 2004-05. During this time, they were also runner's up in the Challenge Cup (1998-99). This position was aided when, in the mid-1990s, the club was granted a Lottery grant to build a ground and club house.
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Danilo was born in Bicas, Minas Gerais. He played youth football with Tupynambás and América Mineiro, and competed at senior level with the latter club in the Campeonato Mineiro and the Série C, winning the latter in 2009 and gaining promotion. In May 2010, Danilo was transferred to Santos FC. Investor DIS Esporte acquired 37.5% of his economic rights, Santos another 37.5% for free and the remaining 25% were retained by América. He won the Campeonato Paulista in 2011 and competed in two Série A seasons with the team.
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The 2007–08 season was Nottingham Forest's third consecutive season in League One. The season was regarded a success with the team gaining promotion back to the Championship at the third attempt. Forest's players were also successful on an individual level in the 2007–08 season, with Julian Bennett and Kris Commons in the PFA League One Team of the Year, while Paul Smith ended the season with 24 clean sheets in 46 games, the record for the league in that season. This achievement was recognised when he received the Puma Golden Glove award.
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The Group A tournament began on 15 April 2007 in Miskolc, Hungary. Belgium, Estonia, Mexico and the Netherlands returned to compete in the Division II competition after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships. Hungary entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Israel entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Netherlands won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.
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The English Football League play-offs for the 2018–19 season were held in May 2019 with all finals played at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs will begin in each league with two semi-finals played over two legs. The teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th-placed teams in League Two are set to compete. The winners of the semi-finals advance to the finals, with the winners gaining promotion for the following season.
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He is known for leading the CS Concordia Chiajna to promotion to the Romanian League in 2013 for the first time in club's history. The team won 21 out of 24 games played in 2nd-tier Liga I throughout 2012–13 season, without losing on home court, thereby gaining promotion. He is also the third youngest coach ever in Romanian basketball to lead a team to the first division. He started the 2013–14 season as the sporting director of the team, but in the sixth round returned to the bench.
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At the end of the 2012-13 season Mumbles RFC were crowned champions of the WRU Division Three West, gaining promotion to the WRU Division Two West. After their first campaign in the 2013-14 WRU Division Two West Mumbles finished mid table. Throughout the 2013-14 season plans of a re-organisation of the WRU leagues had been submitted, ready for the start of the 2014-15 season. The WRU voted that Mumbles should play the 2014-15 season in the newly formed Division One West Central, only three levels below the Pro14.
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The 1963–64 season was Stoke City's 57th season in the Football League and the 33rd in the First Division. With the club now on a high after gaining promotion back to England's top tier, Tony Waddington wasted no time in bringing in new signings to make sure relegation was avoided. He broke the transfer record and despite some concern during the season Stoke stayed up comfortably in 17th position. Stoke enjoyed success in the League Cup reaching the final against Leicester City before losing 4–3 over two legs.
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In 2006, they again won promotion, that time to the 2nd-tier level Greek A2 Basket League. Just two years later, they completed their journey, by gaining promotion to the top-tier level Greek Basket League, after winning the A2 League, during the 2007–08 season. The team's first season in the top league in Greece was a relatively successful and dramatic one, as they safeguarded their survival in the league, in the last game of the season, on April 22, 2009. In October 2010, the club went bankrupt.
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Goalkeeper Tommy Allen did not concede a goal in any of the final seven games of the season (five wins and two draws) and by the time the defence was finally breached by Leeds United on 28 August 1922 he had gone 845 minutes without conceding a goal. In March 1922, just as Saints fans were confident of gaining promotion, McIntyre shocked them by announcing a four player transfer with wingers Fred Foxall and Joe Barratt moving to Birmingham in exchange for Jack Elkes (a forward) and George Getgood (a half-back).
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Müller, 392 The following year New Zealand and Thailand made their debut in the tournament finishing fifth and sixth respectively, with Thailand's 92–0 loss to South Korea being the worst defeat in an IIHF event.Müller, 393Müller, 240 In 1999 the Championship was expanded into two separate divisions with the winner of Division I gaining promotion to the World U18 Championships Pool B and the winner of Division II being promoted to Division I. 1999 also saw the debut of Chinese Taipei and the second non-Asian or Oceanic team, South Africa.
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Theodore Richards was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1868, educated at home, and then at Haverford College and Harvard University, where he received his PhD in chemistry in 1888. From an early time he was interested in the question of atomic weights, a subject that he would study for most of his professional career. After his graduation he became an instructor at Harvard, eventually gaining promotion to full professor in 1901. He successfully recalculated the atomic weights of a number of chemical elements, developing methodology and apparatus along the way.
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At the time Southampton were leading the Third Division South table and their fans were confident of gaining promotion. Manager Jimmy McIntyre shocked them by announcing a four player transfer, with wingers Fred Foxall and Joe Barratt moving to Birmingham in exchange for Elkes and George Getgood (a half-back). The move was a success, however, as Southampton were able to claim the title by overtaking Plymouth Argyle on the final day of the season. Elkes was again unable to play a significant role in winning the title.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2009–10 season were held in May 2010, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-off semi- finals were played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals went through to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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Season 1999–2000 was Hibs' first season back in the top flight of Scottish football, the newly founded Scottish Premier League, after gaining promotion from the First Division in 1999. Hibs re-established themselves well in the top flight, finishing in sixth place. The club also had a good Scottish Cup run, but were disappointingly beaten 2–1 by Aberdeen, who finished bottom of the SPL, in the semi-final at Hampden Park. The season was also memorable for Hibs fans due to a 3–0 win in the "Millennium derby" against Hearts.
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The 2012 Regional League Division 2 (also known as the AIS Regional League Division 2 for sponsorship reasons) was contested by the five regional league winners and runners up of the 3rd level championships of Thailand. The two best 3rd placed teams from the regional leagues also take part Twelve teams were split into two groups of A & B, with the top two teams from group A & B gaining promotion to the Yamaha League-1 for the 2013 campaign, along with this, the two group winners would play off to determine the overall champions.
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The Group A tournament began on 2 April 2006 in Merano, Italy. Estonia, the Netherlands, Serbia and Montenegro and Spain returned to compete in the Division II competition after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships. Italy entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Belgium entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships. Italy won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion back to Division I for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
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They would quickly rise up to the top tier and experience their greatest achievement of winning the 2000 Chinese FA Cup and coming fourth within the league. In 2002, they came fourth place in the last season of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. After these achievements they struggled to replicate the same success and experienced their first relegation from the top tier in the 2006 league season. After gaining promotion in 2008 back into the top tier they were unable to remain in the top flight and were relegated once more in the 2010 season.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2004–05 season were held in May 2005, with the finals taking place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The play-off semi-finals were played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed to the finals, with the winner of the matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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John Thomas Gordon Ruddy (born 24 October 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ruddy began his career at Cambridge United, before signing for Everton as a 19-year- old. He spent five years with Everton, but made just one appearance, while playing on loan at nine different clubs. Ruddy was signed by Paul Lambert to play for Norwich City in 2010 and, in his first season, was part of the team that finished second in the Championship, gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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The English Football League play-offs for the 2017–18 season were held in May 2018 with all finals being staged at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs began in each league with two semi-finals played over two legs. The teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th-placed teams in League Two competed. The winners of the semi-finals advanced to the finals, with the winners gaining promotion for the following season.
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The club's new owners confirmed Garcés will remain as the club's manager for the 2014–15 season, with the goal of gaining promotion to the first division. In October 2014, in a ceremony at the Talca Country Club, the marquess Luis Silva de Balboa transferred the trademark Rangers to the club. The trademark was his property until such time, and by a legal agreement, the transfer contains restrictions as to the limitation for the club to move out of the City of Talca of its ownership in hands other than people from Talca.
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Vaduz topped the Fall Season table that season, but failed to win promotion to the Swiss Super League after finishing fourth in the Final League. Their failure was offset with another victory in the Liechtenstein Cup, this time defeating Balzers in the final. In June 2003, he was set to join St. Gallen; however, the deal never went through because the Swiss side could not afford the transfer fee. Instead he started with Vaduz, who came closer to gaining promotion but were again unsuccessful, after they lost in the promotion–relegation play-off match.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2011–12 season were held in May 2012. All finals took place at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-off semi-finals were played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th-placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals went through to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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Brisbane Road has seen several developments in its history, but due to the second world war the first major improvement was the levelling of a grass bank and crash barrier installation in 1949. The terracing behind the goals was improved again in 1952, 1959 and 1960. In 1956 a small seated stand was dismantled and replaced with a stand from the decrepit Mitcham Stadium, which held 2,600 fans. In 1962, with Leyton Orient gaining promotion to the First Division, another wing was added to the main stand making the seating total 3,500.
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The club was first formed in the 1960s. The club gained entry to Division Four of the Hampshire League for the start of the 1971–72 campaign, finishing third in their first season, and gaining promotion to Division Three. The club remained in Division Three until the end of the 1983–84 campaign when they gained promotion to Division Two as champions. The club remained in Division Two for two seasons and was then promoted to Division One, when many teams from the Hampshire league left to join the newly formed Wessex Football League.
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In the same league that season, a team called Virtus Catania were also present, finishing eighth. At the end of the season, Catanese and Virtus merged to form Club Calcio Catania, with the club's first president as Santi Manganaro-Passanisi, who had previously been president of Catanese. They were entered into Serie C, where they spent three seasons. After an epic duel with Reggina for first place in the league, Catania prevailed with stars such as Goffi, Messora, Ardesi and Prevosti, thereby gaining promotion to Serie B for the 1948–49 season.
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The Group B tournament began on 21 March 2005 in Bucharest, Romania. Croatia, Hungary, Iceland and Lithuania all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championship. Romania entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Mexico entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. Hungary won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion to Division I for the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.
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In 1921, Lincoln were founder members of the Football League Third Division North, and ten seasons later won the division title, thus gaining promotion to the Second Division, though for one season only. In 1947–48, Lincoln again won the Third Division North title, and again suffered immediate relegation from the Second. On regaining Second Division status three years later they remained in the division until the 1960–61 season, but then suffered consecutive relegations. The club website rates 1975–76 as "by far the most successful season in the club's history".
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Genois had a career Davis Cup win-loss record of 13 and 14 in 13 ties for Canada, between 1973 and 1983, including going 11-9 in singles. The highlight of his play was in 1982 when Canada was one tie win away from gaining promotion to the World Group. Canada defeated Venezuela away and Colombia at home to set up a home encounter versus Paraguay. Played in Laval, Glenn Michibata narrowly lost the opening rubber, going down to former World top ten player Víctor Pecci in five sets.
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FC Admira Wacker Mödling, also known as Flyeralarm Admira for sponsorship reasons or simply Admira, is a football club from Mödling, Austria. The club was originally formed in 1905 as SK Admira Wien in the Austrian capital. Mergers in 1971 with SC Wacker Wien, in 1997 with VfB Mödling and in 2008 with SK Schwadorf led to its current name. The club were promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga for the 2011–12 season after gaining promotion at the end of the 2010–11 First League season and finished 3rd in their first season.
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The 2005–06 campaign saw the club able to re-enter the FA Vase again. At the end of the season they finished second in the Dorset Premier Football League and this time gained promotion to the Western League Division One. After finishing 4th in 2006–07, they finished runners-up in 2007–08 – gaining promotion to the Western League Premier Division. That season also saw the club make its debut in the FA Cup, however it was very short-lived after a 4–1 loss away to Liskeard Athletic in the Extra Preliminary round.
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Founded in 1970, Mandurah City played their inaugural competitive season in the South West Soccer League, and won the league in 1972. The club then joined the Western Australian Amateur and Social Soccer Association (WASSA), where it remained until 2002. During this period in the amateurs, the club won the amateur championship in 1995 under the guidance of coach Jim Mayers. In 2002, the club left the amateur ranks and joined the Western Australian Semi professional league and were crowned Division 1 champions in 2007, gaining promotion to the Premier League for the 2008 season.
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The club was founded on May 5, 1978. Barra do Garças competed in the Série C in 1993, gaining promotion to the following year's Série B after beating Nacional-AM. The club was eliminated in the First Stage in the 1994 Série B. Barra competed in the Copa do Brasil in 2004, in this year, the name of the club was "Barra Esporte Clube", when they were eliminated in the First Stage by Santa Cruz, and in 2007, when they were eliminated in the First Stage by Brasiliense.
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2006 was one of the club's most successful seasons of all time winning South Division One thus gaining promotion to the Premier Division, winning the Balliemore Cup and reaching the final of the Celtic Society Cup. In 2008, after several years as a one team club, Bute restarted their second team, which finished fifth in South Division Two in their first season. The club reached the semi-finals of the Camanachd Cup for the first time in 2008. In 2009, they were the last club to finish their season on 12 December 2009.
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Arif Mehmood (born June 21, 1983) is a retired Pakistani professional footballer who played for WAPDA as a striker from 2004 to 2016, after gaining promotion from their youth team where he spent six years from 1998 to 2004. He has been the top-scorer in the Pakistan Premier League five times, leading the charts in 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10 and 2010–11. In his first trial with WAPDA he manages to impress several other teams; however, WAPDA offered substantially more than other clubs.
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Gloria's funding problems worsened. However, Gloria Bistrița resisted on the pitch, and finished runner- up in the second division, thereby earning promotion to Liga I once again, under the leadership of coach Nicolae Manea. In the following season, however, Gloria had the worst record in first division, finishing 18th, and were relegated yet again. After the second relegation, Manea left the club to coach Corona Brașov, taking with him former Gloria strikers, Cristian Coroian and Sandu Negrean, as technical director and head coach respectively, with the stated objective of gaining promotion.
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During the ensuing Battle of Port Moresby, Les shot down four Japanese aircraft. Jackson took over command of No. 75 Squadron after his brother was killed in action on 28 April 1942, leading it in the Battle of Milne Bay later that year. Credited with a fifth aerial victory, he became the RAAF's first ace in the New Guinea campaign, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). By 1944, Jackson was wing leader of No. 78 (Fighter) Wing in Western New Guinea, gaining promotion to wing commander in September that year.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2012–13 season were held in May 2013 with all finals being staged at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-off semi- finals were played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th-placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals advanced to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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In the mid-1990s, under long-serving manager Chick Botley, the Beavers began to climb up the leagues again, winning promotion from the second division in 1995–96, and then gaining promotion from the first division in 1997–98 after finishing in 3rd place. Hampton started 1998–99 in the Premier Division – now the top tier of Isthmian League football. In 1999–00, they became the first winners of the George Ruffell Memorial Shield. They remained in the Premier Division until 2002–03, which led to relegation and a return to Division One.
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The club also had more success when 16 seasons later they won the Lord Jersey League in the 1939–40 season. after the war the club experienced two sets of relegation and ended up in the third division. They won the third division in 1952–53 but relegated immediately the following season, waiting until the 1963–64 season to be promoted again as champions. In 1990 they joined the Oxfordshire Senior League and were division one champions in the 1992–93 season, gaining promotion to the premier division.
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The Group A tournament began on 28 March 2004 in Debrecen, Hungary. Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain returned to compete in the Division II competition after missing promotion at the previous years World Championships. Ukraine entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Iceland entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championships. Ukraine won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion back to Division I for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships.
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During July 2017, Norwood joined EFL Championship side Fulham on a season-long loan deal following Brighton gaining promotion to the Premier League. He scored his first goal for Fulham in a 2–1 loss at Burton Albion on 16 September 2017. During his loan spell, Norwood scored 5 goals and played 41 times for Fulham in all competitions including playing in the playoff final, as Fulham earned promotion to Premier League after winning the 2018 Championship play-off Final against Aston Villa at Wembley Stadium on 26 May 2018.
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On 16 July 2018, Bond joined newly-relegated West Bromwich Albion on a two-year contract as a free agent. Bond served as back-up to first-choice keeper Sam Johnstone as the club lost in the 2018-19 EFL Championship play-offs in the semi-finals to rivals Aston Villa. However, they bounced back the following year to finish as runners-up in the 2019-20 EFL Championship, gaining promotion back to the Premier League. Bond was released from the club after his contract ended on 1 August 2020.
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The following year, Cuddy was promoted to the senior team (his brothers Ger and Sean had also played senior for Laois) and he made his debut as a substitute in a National Hurling League defeat to Clare at Portlaoise. He was selected from the start for Laois’ next outing against Antrim. Despite the defeat to Clare, the O’Moore County succeeded in gaining promotion to Division 1 in 1981 and were drawn to face Tipperary in the quarter-final. Tipp were favourites, but two goals from Cuddy turned the game in Laois’ favour.
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In 2000, following negotiations with the then Birr Town Council, and including an exchange of freehold and leasehold properties, Birr RFC acquired a long term lease on Council lands at Riverside. This site contains 2 full-size rugby pitches in the centre of Birr town. Fortunes again changed as the 2000/2001 season again saw the club gaining promotion by winning Division 4. Due to the Foot & Mouth epidemic in both the UK and Ireland travel restrictions forced the cancellation of many tours including the return tour to Scotland by the mini section.
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Retrieved 4 February 2010. He later went on to manage Oldham Athletic, gaining promotion to the Third Division in 1963. From there, he went on to manage Dutch club Ajax for the 1963–64 season, before returning to Britain to manage Wrexham and Bradford (Park Avenue) F.C., followed by a second spell at Oldham, where he finished his managerial career in December 1969. Rowley was also capped six times for England scoring six goals, four of which came against Northern Ireland on 16 November 1949 Rowley died in June 1998, at the age of 79.
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The club was established in 1911 as Backwell United.History Ashton & Backwell United F.C. After playing in the Bristol Church of England League, they progressed to the Bristol & Suburban League in the 1950s. In 1970 they transferred to the Somerset County League, becoming founder members of the new Division One. After gaining promotion to the Premier Division, the club won the league title in 1977–78.2012–2013 Handbook Somerset County League They went on to win the league in four successive seasons between 1979–80 and 1982–83, also winning the inaugural League Cup in 1982–83.
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The club was founded on July 14, 2004 as Clube Esportivo Guará. The club won the Campeonato Brasiliense Second Level in 2006. It was founded again as Associação Botafogo Futebol Clube on July 14, 2009, after celebrating its five-year birthday and joining a partnership with Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, adopting the colors and symbols from the Rio de Janeiro club. In its first season, Botafogo-DF finished as runners-up in the Campeonato Brasiliense Second Level gaining promotion to the First Level of the Campeonato Brasiliense, in 2010, even after being defeated 2–1 in the final to Ceilandense.
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Yasfaadh started his career playing for the Third Division side BG Sports Club in 2011. He played a vital role in their back-to- back promotions – gaining promotion to Second Division in 2011 and first division in 2012, before moving to Club Eagles in 2013. On 28 February 2013, Yasfaadh made his official debut for Eagles in their season opener, also contributing an assist for Adam Shahir in the 4–2 win against his former club BG Sports. He scored his first goal for the club on 9 May 2013, in the 4–0 win against Club All Youth Linkage in Dhivehi League.
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On 1 February 2018, Afobe rejoined Wolverhampton Wanderers on loan until the end of the 2017–18 season. On 7 March 2018, Afobe scored his first goal back in the Wolves shirt, in a 3–0 victory against Leeds United at Elland Road, with Afobe lobbing the ball over on-rushing Leeds goalkeeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell to score Wolves' third of the night. He scored six goals in 16 appearances as Wolves won the Championship title, gaining promotion to the Premier League. On 1 June, Afobe would sign with Wolves on a permanent deal, for a fee of £10 million.
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Towards the end of the season, Swindon were well-placed for promotion to the Championship, but with only one win in their last six matches, the club finished in fifth place and would have to contest the play-offs. Swindon defeated Charlton 5–4 on penalties after their two-legged semi-final ended 3–3 after extra time. Cuthbert later said the success of getting to Wembley Stadium in his first season with the club was a dream come true. The play-off final saw Swindon lose 1–0 to Millwall, preventing the club from gaining promotion to the Championship.
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Because of this great performance, Portuguesa Santista won Fita Azul do Futebol Brasileiro (Brazilian Football Blue Ribbon in English), given to the club which succeeds in trips to another countries. In 1964, Portuguesa won the second division of Campeonato Paulista (currently known as Campeonato Paulista Série A2), gaining promotion to the following year's first division. In 1997, the club competed in Brazilian Championship Third Level, but was eliminated in the first stage. In 2004, Portuguesa Santista competed in Copa do Brasil, being eliminated in the first round by 15 de Novembro of Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul.
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The LPFP also went on to say that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have three players above 23 years old. In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six Primeira Liga clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from 30 games to 42 games.
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The club were founding members of the York Football League during 1897 under the name Rowntrees. They were one of the nine clubs taking part in the first season, and over the years from the original nine, they would be the only one to have an unbroken existence.YDLHare Football League After gaining promotion, they became one of the founding Yorkshire Football League clubs in 1920–21, the club competed in the league twice, finishing eighth both times.Football Club History Database In 1969, the teamname was changed to Rowntree Mackintosh because of the chocolate factory's merger with Mackintosh's.
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KK Avala Ada was established on 23 December 1998 by a group of basketball enthusiasts, all employed at the Avala Ada packaging factory. The club played in the lower ranks, functioning as part of the Avala Ada sports society that was formed at the same time. In the summer of 1999, the club won the Belgrade Local League (the summer league), thus qualifying for the Serbian Second League (4th-tier competition in the FR Yugoslavia basketball system). Playing the 1999–2000 season in the Second League, the club set an ambitious goal of gaining promotion on its first try and succeeded.
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On 22 July 2012 Laner was re-signed by Serie B team Verona on a loan deal for the 2012-13 season, for €30,000 loan fee.U.C. AlbinoLeffe S.r.l. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2013 (in Italian) He finished second in the league thus gaining promotion to the Serie A. The club also excised the option to sign half of his registration rights for €250,000 in a 3-year contract.Hellas Verona F.C. S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2014 (in Italian) On 31 January 2014, Laner was loaned out to Serie B side Novara.
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Leyton Orient had played in League One since gaining promotion from the third tier in the 2005–06 season, while Rotherham United were seeking back-to-back promotions, having finished the 2012–13 season in second place in League One. Agard was Rotherham's highest scorer with 25 goals, while Dave Mooney was the top marksman for Leyton Orient with 19, followed by Kevin Lisbie on 16. The referee for the match was David Coote, representing the Nottinghamshire County Football Association. He had officiated Rotherham's 1–0 home win against Port Vale the previous month and had sent off Rotherham defender Richard Smallwood.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1995–96 season were held in May 1996, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-off semi- finals were played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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The LPFP also went on to saw that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have three players above 23-years old. In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six Primeira Liga clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from 30 games to 42 games.
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At the age of 23, he became the first American Citizen to play in Ukraine when he signed with Ukrainian First League side FC Vorskla Poltava for the 1995–96 season, and helped the team gain promotion to the Ukrainian Premier League after finishing in first place. Following his spell in the Ukraine, Berbari joined and captained the Nashville Metros for the 1997 A-League season. Berbari returned to Europe for the 1998-1999 season when he signed with German Oberliga club SV Darmstadt 98 helping them finish at the top of the table and gaining promotion to the Regionalliga.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2013–14 season were held in May 2014 with all finals being staged at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs began at the semi-final stage with all semi-finals being played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th- placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals then advanced to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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John O'Callaghan was born in New York City, New York, United States. O'Callaghan later moved to San Francisco, California. While living in San Francisco, O'Callaghan enlisted in the United States Army. Assigned to frontier duty with B Company of the Eighth United States Cavalry regiment, O'Callaghan participated in campaigns against the Apache Indians in the Arizona Territory during the late 1860s and eventually rose through the non-commissioned ranks, gaining promotion to the rank of sergeant. Between August and October 1868, O'Callaghan was involved in several engagements with the Apache and was cited for "bravery in scouts and actions against Indians".
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Milton Keynes Dons Football Club (), usually abbreviated to MK Dons, is a professional association football club based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the third tier of the English football league system, after gaining promotion at the end of the 2018–19 season. The club was founded in 2004, following Wimbledon F.C.'s controversial relocation to Milton Keynes from south London, when it adopted its present name, badge and home colours. Initially based at the National Hockey Stadium, the club competed as Milton Keynes Dons from the start of the 2004–05 season.
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Wright had a prolific goalscoring record in his first season at the club finishing as top scorer with 38 goals in 37 games in all competitions, as Nelson finished as champions gaining promotion to the North West Counties Football League Premier Division. This goal tally included an impressive five hat-tricks, with three of these coming in consecutive games in March 2014. In May 2014, Wright extended his stay with Nelson signing a one-year contract. In October 2015, he left Nelson after two years at the club and having scored 59 goals in 91 appearances.
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The new era began for the club with top-four finishes but no championship; only in 1967 did the club win another Südbaden title. The club came close to gaining promotion to the Regionalliga, too, having to play a decider in Pforzheim against the TSG Backnang, which the team lost 0–1 in front of 10,000 spectators. The club continued to archive top-four finishes in the next three seasons but dropped to eleventh place in 1971, something of a disgrace for the otherwise so successful amateur side. The following two seasons, the club was back in the top five again.
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History of FC Stroitel Pripyat Please note, at Soviet football league system such republican football competitions (KFK championship) in 1971–1989 were conditionally at fourth tier just below the USSR Championship Vtoraya Liga, yet republican competitions, particularly football KFK, were administered by all 15 union republics individually. Since 1978 every winner of the Ukrainian football competitions among KFK were gaining promotion and obtaining the status of teams of masters. The highest achievement in competitions among KFK Stroitel obtained in 1985 placing second in its group. The team never qualified for the final stage of the competition.
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They remained in the Division III tournament for two years before gaining promotion to Division II due to a restructuring which increased the number of teams in Division II to 12. In 2012 they finished first in the Division II Group B tournament being held in Tallinn, Estonia and gained promotion to Division II Group A. Following promotion in 2012 Romania competed in the 2013 IIHF U20 World Championship Division II Group A tournament being held in Brașov, Romania. The team finished third and retained their spot in Division II Group A for the following year.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1992–93 season were held in May 1993, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-off semi- finals were played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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In 2001, after gaining promotion to the First Serbian league (third-tier competition in the country), along with securing a sponsorship from the Swisslion Takovo confectionery company, Kondivik changed its name to KK Lions. Under that name the greatest progress in club's history began, achieving promotion in three competition ranks in the period of three years. In 2004 the club placed first in the league and changed the name again this time to KK Swisslion Takovo. After the same season, after the reorganization of the league loses the first league status which returns already in 2006.
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In the summer of 2006 he accepted the proposal by Claudio Paiola, ambitious president of Domegliara, training veronese of Valpolicella. He had therefore the possibility of closing his career close to home and at the same time, to make a good contribution in terms of experience to his new team, which had as its objective the jump in Serie D. In 2007, the Domegliara won the championship of Excellence gaining promotion. Cossato fell 16 times in two marking networks. He remained in the next season of Serie D player on the staff headed by Paolo Vanoli.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2000–01 season were held in May 2001, with the finals taking place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The play-off semi-finals will be played over two legs and will be contested by the teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals will go through to the finals, with the winner of the matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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On 25 February 2017 with the club in 8th place in League Two after a 1–0 defeat to Annan Athletic and with no realistic prospect of gaining promotion after a ten-match winless run, Ferguson resigned as manager of Clyde, with his assistant Bob Malcolm taking interim charge of the side until a new manager was appointed. After nine years in the bottom tier of Scottish football, at the end of the 2018–19 season Clyde achieved promotion to Scottish League One, beating Annan Athletic 2–1 on aggregate to win the promotion play-off final.
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Bryan Robson made an excellent start to his management career by winning the Division One championship and gaining promotion to the Premiership with Middlesbrough. Bruce Rioch won the Division One playoffs and took Bolton Wanderers to their first cup final in nearly 40 years. Jimmy Quinn took Reading to a second-place finish in Division One and only the streamlining of the Premiership prevented them from reaching the top flight for the very first time. Neil Warnock achieved his fourth promotion in less than a decade as he guided Huddersfield Town to glory in the Division Two playoffs.
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Stockport RUFC was founded in 1923 as Davenport R.U.F.C, the name changing in 1992. The club has made its way up the rugby pyramid in recent seasons, having been as low as the old North West 3 league at one point in the mid-1990s.Club Website history page In 2006 the club won the Powergen Intermediate Cup, 11-6 versus Morley, where Nick Wroe was awarded man of the match after a dazzling display at Twickenham. During that successful season the club finished 1st in the North 2 West League gaining promotion to National 3 North.
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Hinds was commissioned as a cavalry lieutenant in October 1805, gaining promotion to major in September 1813, during the War of 1812. His forces participated with distinction in the Battle of Pensacola (1814) and the Battle of New Orleans (1814-1815), under the command of General Andrew Jackson. Late in 1815, following the death of General Ferdinand Claiborne, Hinds was promoted by President James Madison as Brigadier General of the Mississippi territorial militia. He was continued as the highest officer of the Mississippi militia in the rank of Major general following statehood (late 1817), resigning this position in December 1819.
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He was a member of the team that beat Sheffield United 3–0 at the Millennium Stadium in the 2003 First Division play-off Final to win promotion to the Premier League for the 2003–04 season. Despite Wolves gaining promotion, Lescott along with Matt Murray was unable to participate in the 2003–04 season due to knee surgery, preventing him from competing in the Premier League. Wolves were subsequently relegated and, upon completing his rehabilitation, Lescott returned to compete in the Championship. In October 2005, Lescott agreed a two-and-a-half-year extension to his contract at Wolves.
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Walton-on-Thames Cricket Club are based in Ashley Park with the first team captained by Daniel Roberts. They will play in the Surrey Championship Division two in 2020, having previously won Division Two in 2015 & 2018\. Over the years, Walton have had a host of players who have gone on to further honours including Mark Bainbridge (Surrey CCC & England Under-19s), Stephen Murdoch (Wellington), Anthony Alleyne (West Indies Under-19s) and Greg Lamb (Hampshire CCC & Zimbabwe). The club has four Saturday league senior sides and enjoyed a successful 2015 with three of the four sides gaining promotion.
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They won the WNL Premier League Cup in 2014 and matched their 1992 result in 2016 by gaining promotion back to the Huws Gray Alliance and winning the Premier League Cup for the second time in three years. The club won the NEWFA Cup 2018 beating Holywell in the final. Their best HGA league position to date is third place 2003–04 under Tim Dyer. As the second tier of Welsh Football comes under the wing of the FAW in 2019 Ruthin have been one of the longest-serving clubs in the Huws Gray Alliance along with Buckley Town.
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After the season, Bobby Campbell was replaced by former England international and 1966 FIFA World Cup winner, Alan Ball on 11 May 1984. Under Ball, Portsmouth's results markedly improved and they narrowly missed winning promotion to the First Division in the 1984–85 Second Division season, finishing in 4th place on goal difference. They finished in 4th place again for the following 1985–86 season. In Ball's third season as Portsmouth manager in the 1986–87 Second Division season, Portsmouth finished as runners-up behind Derby County, gaining promotion back to the First Division for the first time since the 1958–59 season.
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Since 2008, the club has been owned (like Ebbsfleet United F.C.) partially by the web-based venture deinfussballclub.de. Until 2008, the SCF played in the fifth division Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, gaining promotion with a second place finish to the new Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen. Fortuna Köln finished Oberliga as ninth in 2008–09, as 15th in 2009–10 season and as third in 2010–2011 saison. From the 2011–12 season the club played in the Regionalliga West until in 2014 they won that league and beat the second team of Bayern Munich to get promoted to the German third league.
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Blackpool's other 'keepers, Rhys Evans and Lewis Edge, also picked up concurrent injuries, which led to Seasiders boss Simon Grayson bringing in Manchester City's Joe Hart on loan as an emergency stand-in. When Hart returned to Manchester City, Rachubka returned to the Blackpool first team on 13 May 2007, for the first leg of the League One play-off semi-final against Oldham Athletic. Blackpool won both legs, and Rachubka played in the final on 27 May at the newly renovated Wembley Stadium. Blackpool won 2–0 against Yeovil Town, gaining promotion to The Championship.
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In the 2004–05 season, West Ham struggled to find promotion form, with Pardew coming under pressure from the club's supporters. West Ham eventually succeeded in gaining promotion to the Premier League after defeating Preston North End in the play-off final. Pardew guided the Hammers to ninth place in the Premier League in the 2005–06 season, which culminated in an appearance in the final of the FA Cup. After drawing 3–3 with Liverpool at the end of extra time, West Ham lost on penalties, resulting in the second FA Cup final defeat of Pardew's career.
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Portsmouth ended the 2001–02 Division One season in 17th place and 4 points above relegation. In the 2002–03 season, Portsmouth led the First Division for most of the season, with Svetoslav Todorov scoring 26 league goals, which made him the First Division's top scorer at the end of the season. Portsmouth finished top as First Division champions on 27 April 2003, six points clear of second-placed Leicester City, gaining promotion (with a game to spare) to the FA Premier League, returning to the top tier of English football after an absence of fifteen seasons.
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Genoa eventually lost the shoot-out 5–4. While back down in Serie B, the club had another taste of international cup success when they became the final winners of the Anglo-Italian Cup by beating Port Vale 5–2 with Gennaro Ruotolo scoring a hat-trick. Chairman Spinelli sold Genoa in 1997, moving onto other clubs (Alessandria and, currently Livorno). The late 1990s and early 2000s would be the most trying time in the history of the club, with constantly changing managers, a poor financial situation and little hope of gaining promotion, outside of a decent 6th-place finish in 1999–00.
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Ward was born in Leigh, Lancashire, before moving to the north of Manchester, where he played his youth football with Walshaw United. From here he made the short move to join Football League Second Division club Bury in October 1923. Generally playing at left-half, Ward made 19 appearances in the 1923–24 season, at the end of which Bury finished as runners-up, thus gaining promotion to the First Division. Following their promotion, Bury signed Bill Turner from Southampton in April 1924, with Stan Woodhouse and John Callagher moving to the south coast as part of the deal.
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They won Division Two West in 2004–05 and Division One West in 2007–08, regaining their Premier Division status. For the 2011–12 season the club was accepted into the Kent Invicta Football League at level 10 of the English football league system for the league's inaugural season. In 2012, they became the inaugural runners- up of the Kent Invicta League.FA Full Time – Kent Invicta League 2011–12 Accessed 1 May 2012 In the 2012–13 season, they went one better, winning the Kent Invicta League championship, gaining promotion to the Southern Counties East League.
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For the following season, he reclaimed his place in the starting line-up from Brown and missed only a few games before he was suddenly transferred to Birmingham in March. At the time Southampton were leading the Third Division South table and their fans were confident of gaining promotion. Manager Jimmy McIntyre shocked them by announcing a four player transfer, with wingers Fred Foxall and Barratt moving to Birmingham in exchange for Jack Elkes (a forward) and George Getgood (a half-back). In his three years at The Dell Barratt made 101 appearances in all competitions, scoring eight goals.
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What followed was 20 seasons of anonymous lower-league football, including two seasons in Divizia C (2000–01 and 2001–02). After gaining promotion to the Divizia B again, former glory Viorel Ion took over as head coach and as player and led them to the Divizia A promotion play-offs lost in front of FC Politehnica AEK Timişoara. Meanwhile, the club confronted itself with major financial difficulties, nearing bankruptcy. This went on up until the 2006–07 season, when investor Aurel Brebeanu took over the club from former president Dan Tulpan and managed to save the club.
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In 2015/16, the team won the league, gaining promotion to NIHL North 1 (Moralee). During the season there were issues between the owners of the Deeside Dragons and Flintshire County Council which resulted in the ownership of the Dragons being removed from Red Hockey. Despite prior fears with the ownership of the Deeside Dragons logo these have been quelled with a rebranded logo. On the final home game of the 2015/16 season the Dragons were involved in an incident which saw their opponents Widnes Wild walk off the ice in the second period and refuse to continue the game.
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Piá training with Napoli After his loan spell ended, Piá returned to Atalanta making 10 more appearances for the club, before transferring to Napoli on a co-ownership deal in January 2005, for €750,000.Napoli Soccer S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2005 (in Italian), PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A. He scored during his first official match for Napoli, in the 3–0 victory over Giulianova. Piá helped the club achieve the Serie C1 championship, gaining promotion back into Serie B. The co-ownership deal with Atalanta was resolved in favour of Napoli in early 2005, for another €600,000.
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His versatility was recognised supporters as they named him their player of the season.Lewis & Wood pick up fan awards 29 April 2013 Wood continued to hold down a regular place in his second season with the club. Despite avoiding relegation to the non-league on the final day of the season, Wood was rewarded with a new two-year contract taking him to July 2016.Sam Wood signs new contract 23 May 2014 During the 2014-15 League Two play off final Wood had his penalty saved during the shootout, resulting in Southend United gaining promotion.
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The club gained promotion to the top league for the third time in 2003 just to be demoted directly, since it came after the Trelleborg board hired the Dane Ole Mørk, who was supposed to change the Trelleborg style of play into a more attractive short-passing game. In 2005, TFF finished eleventh in Superettan after a turbulent year, while 2006 became a successful year for the team. Three rounds before the end of Superettan 2006, Trelleborg stood as clear winners, thus gaining promotion to the 2007 Allsvenskan. Relegation was narrowly avoided with superior goal difference in 2007.
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The 2017–18 season saw Hoilett's most productive season, finishing the season with 12 goals, including goals against former club, Queens Park Rangers and a brace against Mansfield Town in the FA Cup, as Cardiff finished 2nd, gaining promotion to the Premier League. Hoilett was offered a new contract following the club promotion. On 26 June 2018, Hoilett signed a three-year contract in the Welsh capital. He scored his first Premier League goal since 2012 in a 2–1 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers on 30 November, which BBC Sport called a "fabulous first-time effort from 25 yards".
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Highlight of that season was undoubtedly the 13-12 win over Shannon in the Munster Junior Plate, with an injury time penalty being the winning score. They also reached the semi-final of the Martin O’Sullivan Cup losing out to Waterford City. The 2009/10 season saw the club fulfill a long term ambition in gaining promotion to Division 2 of the Munster Junior League. The effort put in by both players and management paid off in a dramatic season finale, as they won the promotion play-off over Charleville 21-20 with an injury time penalty.
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Aquaforce Barnsley then merged with Barugh F.C., another ailing local team, to form Shaw Lane Aquaforce.Shaw Lane Aquaforce Football Club History Database In their first season, the club won the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Senior League Premier Division, winning promotion to the Northern Counties East League (NCEL) Division One. A year later, their rise continued when they finished runners-up in the NCEL Division One, winning promotion to the Premier Division. This was followed by the club winning the Premier Division in the 2014–15 season and gaining promotion to the Northern Premier League (NPL) Division One South.
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Football Club Ararat-Armenia is an Armenian professional football club based in Yerevan. The club was formed in 2017 as FC Avan Academy before changing their name to FC Ararat-Moskva at the beginning of 2018, and then FC Ararat- Armenia upon gaining promotion to the Armenian Premier League in the summer of 2018.This article encompasses the major records set by the club and their players in the Armenian Premier League, Armenian Cup and European competitions. The player records section includes details of the club's goalscorers and those who have made more than 50 appearances in first-team competitions.
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The club was transferred from the Southern League to the Isthmian League in 2004, competing in that league's Premier Division for one season before mounting financial problems led the club to a further relegation. In the 2007–08 season, Dover won Division One South of the league, before winning the Premier Division in 2008–09 and thus gaining promotion to the Conference South. They spent five seasons in this division, reaching the play-offs three times, before defeating Ebbsfleet United in the 2013–14 play-off final to finally return to the Conference Premier after a twelve-year absence.
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Aidan John Davison (born 11 May 1968) is an English-born Northern Irish former professional footballer and football coach. As a player, he played as a goalkeeper from 1987 until 2008. Having started his career with non-league side Billingham Synthonia, he moved on to Notts County and subsequently spent loan spells with Leyton Orient and Bury before joining the latter on a permanent deal. He went on to play for Chester City, Blackpool and Milwall before earning his biggest break yet by signing for Bolton Wanderers and in 1995 gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1993–94 season were held in May 1994, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-off semi- finals were played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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China has been as high as Division 1 of the Asia Rugby Championship, most recently in 2008 when it was grouped with Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Sri Lanka. However, between 2015 and 2019, the team was in Division 3 East of the Asian Rugby Championship, alongside countries like Guam, Brunei and Laos. In the 2019 Asia Rugby Championship division tournaments, China went unbeaten against India and Indonesia, with 137 points for and only 27 against, gaining promotion to Division 2 in the process. Participation in Division 2 will enable the team to attempt qualification for the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
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After the cessation he returned to Reading in time for their first season in the Football League Third Division. While on the books of Reading he was known as George Goodman, and he made a total of 40 appearances, scoring once. He had acquired a reputation for strong tackling, and in August 1921 Birmingham signed him to strengthen their newly promoted side; he played ten First Division games at right half but did not settle, and transferred to Southampton in March 1922. At the time Southampton were leading the Third Division South table and their fans were confident of gaining promotion.
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The Group B tournament began on 15 March 2006 in Elektrėnai and Kaunas, Lithuania. Croatia, Iclenad, Lithuania and Mexico all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous yeard World Championships. Great Britain entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Australia entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships. Great Britain won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion back to Division I for the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships.
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KTP had a long football traditions centred on its golden age in the early 1950s when the club won two Finnish championships in 1951 and 1952. They also won the Finnish Cup four times, the most recent occasion being in 1980. The club, playing in the renamed Arto Tolsa Areena, were participating in the Veikkausliiga as recently as 2000, but were relegated to Ykkönen and finally went into bankruptcy. The club re-formed and played in the lower divisions before gaining promotion to the Kakkonen in 2007. They spent two seasons in the Kakkonen but were relegated in 2009.
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Born into a noble family descended from the prestigious Colbert line, he was the son of the comte de Colbert, a rich landowner. On 23 August 1793, Pierre followed the traditional family route into the army, which was now the Republican army, although he was suspicious of the French Revolution. He fought in the 1793 campaigns in the armée du Rhin, as a member of the bataillon de Paris, also known as the bataillon Guillaume-Tell after William Tell. He moved to the 11th Hussar Regiment, gaining promotion to maréchal-des-logis in September 1793 and to sous-lieutenant the following month.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2006–07 season were held in May 2007, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London for the first time. The play-off semi-finals will be played over two legs and will contested by the teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals will go through to the finals, with the winner of the matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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Born in Saint-Denis, Alioune started his career in 1996 with FC Nantes and signed his first professional contract in 1997. During his 7 seasons with the club, he became Ligue 1 winner in 2001 (to which he contributed 15 appearances) and twice a winner of the Coupe de France in 1999 and 2000. Alioune Toure was then transferred to Manchester City with whom he won the Championship gaining promotion to the Premier League. In 2002, he signed with Paris Saint-Germain on a five-year contract where he was finalist of the Coupe de France in 2003 before winning it in 2004.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2005–06 season were held in May 2006, with the finals taking place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff for the last time. The play-off semi-finals were played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals advanced to the finals, with the winners of these matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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He was admitted to the Wisconsin state bar in 1860. Reed did not feel himself drawn to the legal profession, however, and at the urging of friends he left for Chicago to enroll at the Congregational theological seminary there. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Reed put aside his theological studies and enlisted as an officer in the 18th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, serving as a lieutenant. He would serve four years in the Union Army, gaining promotion to the rank of captain in 1863 and commanding 100 scouts, mustering out only at the end of the war.
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Droylsden is home to Droylsden F.C. who won the Conference North league in 2006–07, gaining promotion to the Conference National for the 2007–08 season, although they were relegated back to Conference North for 2008–09, and into the Northern Premier League Premier Division in 2012–13. Now Droylsden play in the Northern Premier League Division One North. Droylsden is one of a number of locations which are promoted as the birthplace of speedway racing in the UK. Britain's first ever Speedway meeting was staged in Droylsden on 25 June 1927, billed as dirt track racing.
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The game was played in front of a shared support of 3,465 people. Stirling Albion secured the win with Robert Snodgrass two goals and Stewart Devine scoring the third goal to gain the Binos promotion from the Scottish Second Division to the Scottish First Division. It had taken the Binos nearly ten years to return to the Scottish First Division, after dropping down to ninth in the Scottish Third Division. Slowly over the past five seasons Binos boss Allan Moore took the Binos from this lowest ebb in the club's recent history to gaining promotion to the Scottish First Division.
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On 29 January 2010, McSheffrey joined Leeds United of Football League One on loan for the remainder of the season. He made his debut the following day, producing a man- of-the-match performance on the left wing in Leeds' 2–0 League home win against Colchester United. In an interview after the game McSheffrey said "there'd be no better club to be with at Championship level" should Leeds succeed in gaining promotion. Ineligible for an FA Cup replay against Tottenham Hotspur, McSheffrey returned to the starting line-up for the 2–2 draw with Hartlepool United.
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The club was the works team of engineering company GKN Sankey and played in the Shropshire County League from at least 1954 until 1960.Official Shropshire County Premier Football League website In 1960 the club switched to the more senior Cheshire County League and played there until 1965, achieving a second-place finish in the 1963–64 season. This was followed by one season back in the Shropshire County League before the team joined the West Midlands (Regional) League in 1966. The club played in the West Midlands League until 1974, gaining promotion to the Premier Division in 1971.
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After scoring a late winner against Sutton United in 2017 Ihiekwe was quoted as saying "That will kill Lincoln" Ihiekwe in making his statement was a little premature as Lincoln Then went on to secure their next 6 games undefeated and won the National title gaining promotion back to the football League. As the season progress, Ihiekwe began to play in a full-back position, rather than in a central-back, under the management of Gary Brabin. At the end of the 2015–16 season, Ihiekwe was offered a new contract and signed a one- year contract extension on 1 June 2016.
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Shocked by the club's dissolution, a group of Leskovac community and business leaders, alongside club fans and sports enthusiasts established an initiative to revive the football club. Within a year of Dubočica's demise, the collective succeeded in forming the successor team Gradski fudbalski klub Dubočica (English: City Football Club Dubočica). The newly registered GFK Dubočica began season 2015–16 by winning the lowly fifth tier Jablanica District League, thereby gaining promotion. Dubočica were crowned the Zone League South champions after two seasons and achieved promotion this time to the third tier Serbian League East in 2018–19.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2003–04 season were held in May 2004, with the finals taking place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The play-off semi-finals will be played over two legs and will be contested by the teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals will go through to the finals, with the winner of the matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2002–03 season were held in May 2003, with the finals taking place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The play-off semi-finals will be played over two legs and will be contested by the teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals will go through to the finals, with the winner of the matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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Over the next forty years the club won a further three FA Cups. The club has gained promotion to the Premier League one three separate occasions; first in 1995, then again in 1997, with each term lasting for only one season on each occasion, before again gaining promotion in 2001. The club played at the highest level in English football for eleven years before relegation to the second tier in 2012. Since playing their first competitive match, more than 850 players have made a competitive first-team appearance for the club, many of whom have played less than 25 matches (including substitute appearances).
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The Group A tournament began on 14 March 2005 in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia. Estonia, the Netherlands, Serbia and Montenegro and Spain returned to compete in the Division II competition after missing promotion at the previous years World Championships. South Korea entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and South Africa entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships. South Korea won the tournament after winning all five of their games and gained promotion back to Division I for the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2001–02 season were held in May 2002, with the finals taking place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The play-off semi-finals will be played over two legs and will be contested by the teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals will go through to the finals, with the winner of the matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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Ventforet Kofu (1995–present) The club was renamed Ventforet Kofu in 1995 and joined J.League Division 2 in 1999 when it was formed. The club survived a difficult period between 1999 and 2001, when it suffered from financial troubles as well as miserable results on the pitch, including a streak of twenty-five consecutive losses. Ventforet finished bottom for three seasons in succession and was dubbed as "Excess baggage of J2". Ventforet improved in 2002, and in 2005 finished third, gaining promotion to the Japanese first division by winning the promotion/relegation play-offs against Kashiwa Reysol.
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Instead of joining the Premier division of the Herts senior league, the club applied to join Division two of the Spartan South Midlands League for the 2008–09 campaign and were successful. The club played in Division two for two seasons before gaining promotion to Division one. The 2011–12 campaign saw the club make their debut in the FA Cup, where they met Oxhey Jets F.C. in the extra preliminary riound but lost 6–0. The men's team withdrew from the league in October 2019 due to difficulties in raising enough players to form a team.
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Bundesliga Nord late in the 1970s and played the 1978 and 1979 seasons there. The club voluntarily bowed out in spite of 11th and 13th-place finishes well clear of the relegation zone in the face of dismal attendance and an increasingly untenable financial situation. It returned to third division play where it played until the early 1990s before slipping to the Verbandsliga Westfalen-Sudwest (V). The football department became independent in 2000 and from the 2003–04 season played in the tier VI Landesliga Westfalen-West, gaining promotion to the Verbandsliga Westfalen again in 2005.
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With further financial trouble, Pishyar sold the club to Richard Trenkwalder in 2008. Trenkwalder made a series of changes to the club, including changing the club's name to FC Trenkwalder Admira. His changes eventually paid off, with the club gaining promotion back to the Austrian first division following the 2010–11 season. (Majid Pishyar, meanwhile, notably also caused similar financial problems at a Swiss club, Servette, in the 2011–12 season.) In 2017, Würzburg-based online printing company Flyeralarm acquired the naming rights for the club, meaning the club will be known as "Flyeralarm Admira" for ten years.
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The club struggled to survive in the West Midlands League for the next 25 years. The early 1990s saw a turn around in fortunes for Hinckley Athletic and manager John Hanna saw the club become founder members of the Midland Alliance. Meanwhile, in 1958 Westfield Wanderers were formed and played in the Hinckley District League. In 1972 they changed their name to Hinckley Town and joined the Leicestershire Senior League, before their successful period in the 1980s with a switch to the Central Midlands League, then the West Midlands (Regional) League and gaining promotion to the Southern League in 1990.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2015–16 season were held in May 2016 with all finals being staged at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs begin at the semi-final stage with all semi-finals being played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th- placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals then advance to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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The 2016–17 season was Middlesbrough's fifteenth season in the Premier League, their first since relegation in the 2008–2009 season, after gaining promotion the previous season in their 141st year in existence. Along with the Premier League, the club will also compete in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017. Middlesbrough's long- awaited return to the top flight proved to be disastrous, as the team struggled to score goals all season, despite boasting a strong defensive record compared to other teams in the bottom half of the table.
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Byrne signed for Nottingham Forest in July 2007 from Dublin schoolboy side, Crumlin United after unsuccessful trials at Leicester City and Stoke City. He was named as a substitute in Forest's 1–1 draw at home to Walsall in March 2008. He then made his professional debut for Forest as a 70th-minute substitute on 5 April 2008 in a 3–1 victory against Cheltenham Town. With the Reds gaining promotion, manager Colin Calderwood commented that he would be given the chance to impress next season after Forest's promotion to the Championship in the upcoming 2008–09 season.
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The LPFP also went on to saw that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have 3 players above 23 years old. In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six Primeira Liga clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from thirty games to forty two games.
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But Basel missed promotion finishing in third position in the league table. Zbinden played another four seasons with Basel, but the team remained unsuccessful in gaining promotion. The further trainers during this second period with Basel were again Ernst August Künnecke, then Bruno Rahmen and Karl Odermatt, who together both acted as interims trainer following Künnecke dismissal and finally Friedel Rausch was his trainer during Basel's 1992–93 season. Altogether between the years 1982 to 1986 and again from 1989 to 1993, Zbinden played a total of 303 games for Basel, scoring a total of 71 goals.
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The team started to climb to the top in the second division in the season 1981–82 winning the league, the division cup and gaining promotion to the GFA's first division after only one season. The next year Lincoln finished in mid table in the first division. In 1983–84 Lincoln won the league and promotion to the Gibraltar Premier Division. In 1984–85 Lincoln played their first season in the Gibraltar Premier Division in which they were joint champions with Glacis United – the first of seven league titles which were won between 1984 and 1994.
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The Bangalore Super Division features the ten to fourteen teams of Bangalore affiliated to the Bangalore District Football Association (BDFA) competing for the George Hoover Trophy. Clubs can enter the Super Division by adopting two different ways — either by gaining promotion from the A Division, the second tier of the system, or by paying an amount of 10 lakh to the BDFA, gaining direct entry. The league is played in a single-leg format where all the teams play against each other at least once. All the matches are played at Bangalore Football Stadium in the Ashok Nagar suburb of Bangalore.
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For the first time the club was involved in Division 3 playoffs after a creditable fourth-place finish during the 2004/05 season, losing out to runaway Division 3 winners Greystones. In the 2005/06 season Suttonians achieved the historic feat of gaining promotion to All Ireland League Division 2, progressing to the semi-final of the Leddin Finance Leinster Senior Cup, and competed in the inaugural All Ireland Cup as one of only five sides representing Leinster. The club finished thirteenth in their first season of AIL Division 2, having risen to the lofty heights of joint third at the Christmas break.
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That season also saw them reach the finals of both the London Senior Cup (losing 1–3 to Briggs Sports at Ilford) and Middlesex Senior Cup (losing 1–2 to Hendon at Wealdstone). The club then joined the Corinthian League the following season (1956–57). That competition merged with the Athenian League in 1963 and became the First Division where the club remained until gaining promotion to the Premier Division in 1968. Malcolm Allison's first job in football management was with Wembley but most of his reign unfortunately coincided with the Big Freeze of 1962–63 so his impact was minimal.
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With the reorganisation of league football in Germany and Baden-Württemberg, mainly the interception of the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg and the Verbandsliga Württemberg, the SpVgg found itself relegated to fourth tier, missing the qualification to the new Oberliga by only finishing 11th in the Amateurliga. Sixteen years of being a third-division outfit came to an end. Relegated to the Landesliga, things got worse for the SpVgg Lindau in 1979–80, when the club was relegated again, to the Bezirksliga. In 1982, the club managed to correct this by winning the Bezirksliga and gaining promotion back to the Landesliga.
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Formed in 1912, in their early years the club competed in local Sheffield leagues before entering the Sheffield Amateur League and then the Sheffield Association League, winning the latter in 1928. They entered the FA Amateur Cup for the first time in 1926 and the FA Cup a year later. They won the Association League again in 1938, and a year later reached the semi-finals of the Amateur Cup, losing to Willington at Ayresome Park in Middlesbrough. After the Second World War the club joined the Yorkshire League, gaining promotion to Division 1 in 1950.
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Organized by the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF), I Lyga is contested by 14 teams in 2020 (16 in 2019), with the top team gaining promotion to A Lyga and replaced by the lowest-placed team in top division and the bottom 4 clubs being relegated to the II Lyga. Starting with the 2016 season, the second-placed team qualifies to promotion play-offs with A Lyga's next-to-last team. The final list of participants often does not correlate to the final results of the previous season, as the participation is finalized through the Lithuanian Football Federation league licensing process.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2014–15 season began in May 2015 with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs began at the semi-final stage with all semi-finals being played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th- placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi-finals then advanced to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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Idrottsklubben Pantern, known as IK Pantern, were a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Malmö, Sweden who mostly played in the Hockeyettan, the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden, before gaining promotion to the HockeyAllsvenskan in the 2015–16 season. The club participated on two occasions in the promotion qualifiers to Sweden's top flight, the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), without success before filing for bankruptcy following the 2018–19 season. The club was re-formed shortly thereafter under the new name Ishockeyklubben Pantern and will play the 2019–20 season in Hockeytrean, the fifth tier of ice hockey in Sweden.
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He also scored in the final game of the season, the first goal in Forest's 3–2 victory over Yeovil Town at the City Ground, which saw Forest finish second in League One in a dramatic last day of the season, thereby gaining promotion to the Championship. Bennett was voted Forest's Player of the Year for the promotion 2007–08 season. 'Jules' had helped the team keep 24 clean sheets that season, a league record. His performances were also recognised when he was named in the PFA's League One team of the year along with Forest teammate Kris Commons.
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Former logo of SpVgg Weiden The side originated with the 1912 establishment of a football department in the gymnastics club Turnerbund Weiden. The footballers became independent on 19 January 1924 and enjoyed some early success in capturing local titles in 1924 and 1931, gaining promotion to the Bezirksliga Bayern for one season. Between 1929 and 1934 they were united with Fußball Club Windischeschenbach to play as SpVgg Weiden- Windischeschenbach. In 1934, the team qualified to play in the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich.
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He was selected by Pittsburgh with the 58th overall pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. On 15 July 2018, Hållander signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was returned to continue his development with original club, Timrå IK, after gaining promotion to the SHL. In the 2018–19 season, Hållander scored 7 goals and 14 assists as a rookie during his first SHL season and was the second best point producer for Timrå in their qualifying games with 5 goals and 3 assists in 7 matches, in their relegation and return to the HockeyAllsvenskan.
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FC adopted the name Sportverein 1911 Landsberg in 1947 and on 31 March 1949 the club was again re-united with founding association TSV. Throughout its existence the football team has played in lower tier local competition with the exception of a single season spent in the Oberliga Bayern (IV) in 1997–98 where the team finished at the bottom of the table. They currently play in the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) after slipping from the Landesliga Bayern-Süd (V) all the way to the Bezirksliga Schwaben-Süd (VII), gaining promotion from this league in 2006–07.
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Kangarilla reformed in 1966 and joined the Hills Central B-Grade competition before a restructure of football in the Hills saw them join the newly formed Hills Football League Southern Zone. Kangarilla were realigned into Division 3 of the Hills Football League in 1972, and then promoted for two seasons to Division 1 in 1979. Kangarilla left the Hills Football League and joined the Southern Football League Division 2 competition in 1981, gaining promotion to Division 1 in 1984. They were relegated back to Division 2 for the 1987 season where they remained until the two divisions combined in 2002.
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March then scored his first goal of the season, in a 3–3 draw against Brentford on 5 February 2017. This was followed up by setting up two goals in a 4–1 win over Burton Albion. March went on to score two more goals throughout the season, against Rotherham United and Wigan Athletic, with the Wigan goal on 17 April 2017 being the decider in Brighton's promotion. Since returning to the first team from injury, March began to regained his first team in the midfield position and played a key role in the side gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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Season 2000–01 was Hibs' second season in the Scottish Premier League, after gaining promotion from the First Division in 1999. 2000–01 proved to be a successful season for Hibs, as they started the season extremely well and eventually finished third, qualifying for the 2001–02 UEFA Cup. The club also had a good Scottish Cup run, reaching the 2001 Scottish Cup Final, but were beaten 3–0 by treble winners Celtic at Hampden Park. The season was also memorable for Hibs fans due to a 6–2 win in an Edinburgh derby against Hearts.
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Sparta Asia Football Club () is a Hong Kong football club currently competing in the Hong Kong Second Division. During the 2008–09 season, it once competed in the top-tier Hong Kong First Division, and was relegated after finishing 12th out of 13 teams. At the end of the 2010–11 season, after gaining promotion to the First Division from the runner-up position in the Second Division, it withdrew from the First Division and was expunged from the Hong Kong league system by the HKFA. IT rejoined the league system and competed in the Fourth Division in the 2012–13 season.
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In the club's promotion/relegation play-off against AC Bellinzona, Baumann scored Servette's second and third goals as the club won 3–1, gaining promotion to the Swiss Super League. After a promising start in the top flight in the 2011–12 season, Baumann severely injured his knee in a match against FC Lucerne, and missed the rest of the season. In January 2016 Servette FC announced that they were re-signing Patrick Baumann. He initially signed on a 6-months contact with an option for 2 more seasons as well as integration into the academy.
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And cameo Preston Whilst at University he played for Team Northumbria of the Northern Football League Division Two. In his first season with the club he won the League and Cup double, gaining promotion to Division One. He also featured in the 2012 Northumberland Senior Cup final at St James' Park scoring twice in a defeat to Newcastle United Reserves on penalties after a 4–4 draw. After completing his degree in the summer of 2013, he returned home and signed for Northern Premier League Premier Division side FC United of Manchester after impressing on trial.
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Shelton has a cricket club whose ground is adjacent to the former Shelton Hospital (see above), with which the club has strong historic associations.Phil Gillam - Shelton Hospital shows how attitudes have changed The team played in the Shropshire Premier Cricket League until the league was wound up after the 2011 season. In 2012 Shelton played in the Premier Division of the newly formed Shropshire County Cricket League but were relegated to Division One at the end of that season. In 2015 Shelton finished second in Division One, gaining promotion to the Premier Division and ending a spell of three years outside the top division.
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Founded in 1970 Southampton Women's FC remain the most successful women's football team in Southampton. They are eight-time winners of the FA Women's Cup second only to Arsenal with 14 titles to their name. They more recently have returned to form with the First Team winning the Southern Region Women's Football League in 16-17 and gaining promotion to the FA Women's Premier League, whilst the Reserves were unbeaten in the Hampshire County Women's League and won promotion to the Southern Region Women's Football League. Last season they were also finalists in the Hampshire FA Women's Challenge Cup, finishing runners-up to Portsmouth Ladies FC.
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Davidson was born in Auchinleck in East Ayrshire and started his professional football career with Ayr United before moving to England to join Middlesbrough in May 1900. At Middlesbrough, he soon became a permanent fixture at left-half, making 32 league appearances in the 1900–01 season as Middlesbrough finished sixth in the Second Division table. The following season, he was ever-present as Middlesbrough finished as runners-up, thus gaining promotion to the First Division. Davidson rarely missed a match over the next two years, but in 1904–05 he missed most of the season through injury, with Joe Cassidy dropping back to replace him.
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He won a further Scottish Cup in 1989 and was Celtic's top scorer that season, also finishing joint top scorer in the Scottish Premier Division alongside Aberdeen's Charlie Nicholas. McGhee joined Newcastle United for a second time in 1989. He quickly forged a successful partnership up front with Micky Quinn, and their goals saw Newcastle come close to gaining promotion to the First Division (the top-tier in England at that time), finishing third in the Second Division. McGhee and Quinn were less prolific the following season, and the arrival of Ossie Ardiles as manager in March 1991 saw McGhee dropped from the team.
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Following its stint in the second flight, Balona returned to the Tercera División where it stayed for 28 years, bar one in the 1976/77 season where it returned to the Regional División. Following several consistent high finishing seasons the 1982/3 season proved a success for Balona with it coming first in the Tercera División and gaining promotion to the recently created Segunda División B. The club had another extended period in a single league, this time being 10 years. During these ten years the club managed a second-place finish in the 1985/86 season, however this wasn't enough to see it gain promotion to the Segunda División.
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This was only the third time in the history of the League that this has been achieved by a club. However, in season 2011–12 Ryhope repeated the feat of the previous season winning all four competitions and gained promotion to the Northern League for the first time in its history. It ended the season having only been defeated once in its last 70 Wearside League and Cup games. The team continued its success in season 2012–13 finishing runners up to Crook Town and gaining promotion to the Northern League 1st Division at its first attempt, losing only three games and scoring 147 league goals.
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The Donkin Memorial, Donkin Reserve, Port Elizabeth. Donkin's name listed on the south face of the Burdett Coutts memorial Becoming a captain in 1793, Donkin saw active service in the West Indies in the next year, gaining promotion to major in 1796. At the age of twenty-five he became a lieutenant- colonel and in 1798 led a light battalion with distinction in Popham's expedition to Ostend. He served with Cathcart in Denmark in 1807 and two years later won command of a brigade of three regiments in the army in Portugal, which he led in victory at the Second Battle of Porto (May 1809).
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During the following years they worked their way through the divisions gaining promotion in successive seasons and took the championship of the Premier Division at their first attempt in 1985. At the end of that season the club celebrated with their third major tour, this time to Colorado, USA. Whilst since then they have failed to repeat their championship win, they have had successful tours to Spain, Czechoslovakia, Boston, Estonia and Majorca. In 1982 they won the Belgian Cup for the third time and finished off with a successful tour to Canada. The club has also organised international charity rugby matches in 1986,1987, 1990 and 1991.
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They did, however, win the GFA County Challenge Trophy for the second time in succession and the fourth time overall with a record 9-2 win over Lydney Town. In the 2016/17 season, Bristol Manor Farm were finally successful in gaining promotion to the Southern League, winning the Western League by quite a distance. They also had another successful run in the FA Vase where they went out in the Fifth Round Proper to Semi-Finalists Bromsgrove Sporting. The Farm finished their first season in the eighth tier with a very respectable 9th-place finish, falling away towards the end after troubling the top six places all season.
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For the start of the 1992–93 season they were among the founder members of the Devon League. They went on to win the winning that league twice before gaining promotion to the Western League Division One in 2001. They won the Western League Division One title in 2004–05, earning another promotion to the Western League Premier Division where they have finished in the top six during each of their seasons at that level. Willand Rovers made it to the Les Phillips Cup Final in 2006, losing to Corsham Town, but went one better in 2007, winning the Cup after a final against Welton Rovers.
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Radstock- along with Frome Town and Clandown – chose to compete in the Wiltshire League, and won the championship in 1965–66 and 1966–67. In the 1970s Radstock switched to the Somerset County League, which they won in 1976–77 and again in 1978–79. Radstock rejoined the Western League for the 1979–80 season. They spent the next few years either in Division One or at the foot of the Premier Division. At the end of the 1993–94 season Radstock were relegated to the Somerset County League, where they remained for ten seasons before gaining promotion after finishing in third place in 2003–04.
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The English Football League Championship (often referred to as the Championship for short or the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons, and known as the Football League Championship from 2004 until 2016) is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the English football league system after the Premier League. The league is contested by 24 clubs. Each season, the two top-finishing teams in the Championship are automatically promoted to the Premier League. The teams that finish the season in 3rd to 6th place enter a playoff tournament, with the winner also gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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In October 1945, Scherger led a survey team to Japan to review airfields and other facilities being considered for the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, determining that substantial work was needed to bring them up to the required capacity.Stephens, Going Solo, p. 211 The following year, he attended the Imperial Defence College, London. He was promoted to substantive group captain on 1 January 1947, and was appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS) on 1 July. He achieved substantive air officer rank on his promotion to substantive air commodore on 23 September 1948, gaining promotion to temporary air vice marshal on 1 May 1950.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1996–97 season were held in May 1997, with the finals taking place at the old Wembley Stadium in London. The play- off semi-finals will be played over two legs and will be contested by the teams who finish in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League First Division and Football League Second Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division table. The winners of the semi-finals will go through to the finals, with the winner of the matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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Levante UD Gaining promotion to the Superliga Femenina in just two seasons, Sporting Huelva debuted at the 2006–07 season. It has successfully avoided relegation for the past three seasons, actually ending the 2008–09 season just one point short for qualifying to the Copa de la Reina, losing the spot at the last matchday. Soccerway.com Next year Sporting was third in their group in the first stage of the newly reformed competition, narrowly missing qualification for the title contenders group. The team ranked again 3rd in its group in the second stage, qualifying for the Copa de la Reina for the first time.
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Hume won the Kent League and the Kent League Premier Division Cup in his second season in charge, and his side were promoted to the Isthmian League Division One South in April 2006. In the pre season of that year Alan Walker was promoted from Hume's assistant to joint manager, and together they won the 2006–07 Isthmian One South title, gaining promotion to the Isthmian League Premier Division. Hume and Alan Walker registered two lower table finishes before resigning in early 2010. Reserve team manager Peter Nott took over and kept Maidstone from relegation, but was sacked in October 2010 after a poor start to the 2010–11 season.
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The team finished third in the league on two more occasions, in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, after a string of poor results and a corruption scandal, the team was relegated again to the second league. In 2007 the team successfully made it back to the Czech First League, finishing the season as runaway champions of the 2nd league. After finishing mid-table in their first season back in the top flight, in 2009 they were relegated back to the second league after struggling all season, bouncing back to the top flight by again gaining promotion from the 2nd league, this time as Runners-up, two seasons later (2011).
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A disappointing 2001 lead to Sellimi missing out on the 2002 African Cup of Nations in Mali and a number of international friendlies after a fall-out with former national coach Henri Michel. But the Frenchman's replacement with Ammar Souayah coupled with the national team's goal drought brought about his recall. The 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan turned out to be Adel Sellimi's swansong in premier football competitions, and he retired from international football shortly after the tournament at the age of 31. He returned to Club Africain shortly afterwards, and is now Head Coach of Jendouba Sport in Tunisia, recently gaining promotion to Ligue 1.
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The English Football League play-offs for the 2019–20 season (referred to as the Sky Bet Play-Offs for sponsorship reasons) were held in June, July and August 2020 with all finals played at Wembley Stadium in London. The play-offs began in each league with two semi-finals played over two legs. The teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th place in the Championship and League One and the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th-placed teams in League Two were set to compete. The winners of the semi-finals advanced to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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Gore joined the Royal Navy in August 1781, as a captain's servant, and would have served as a midshipman, before gaining promotion to lieutenant on 26 November 1789 and commander on 24 May 1794. The Royal Navy had just captured the French corvette Fleche at the capture of Bastia, in which Gore had played a significant role and had been injured. The Navy took the corvette into service as HMS Fleche and commissioned her under Gore. He fitted her out and sailed her to Malta where he negotiated with the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc for seamen, supplies, and the like.
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Layún with Watford On 30 December 2014, it was announced that Layún had transferred to La Liga club Granada on a five-year deal; however, he was expected to go on loan for the remainder of the season to English Championship club Watford. On 9 January 2015, it was announced that Layún had signed a permanent four-and-a-half year deal with Watford, being handed the number 7 shirt. He made his Championship debut the following day in the 1–3 defeat to Huddersfield Town, playing all ninety minutes. In his first season with the club, Layún played in 17 games, with Watford gaining promotion to the Premier League.
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Defender Gordon Minor and former Kilmarnock F.C. youth player Joe Gold scored the Shortlees goals. They added the Ayrshire Premier Division title on 4 June 2018, defeating defending champions and arch rivals Hurlford Thistle 5–0 in the decisive fixture, with a crowd estimated at over 1000 in attendance to witness the victory. As well as gaining promotion, in 2016 Shortlees had won the West of Scotland Cup (considered the most prestigious in the region after the Scottish Cup), and again the opponent they overcame in the final was Goldenhill, by the same scoreline. The club play in black-and-red striped shirts or an all-white away kit.
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Clapton Community FC was formed in February 2018 by disillusioned supporters of Clapton FC after what they deemed as mismanagement of the club by chairman Vince McBean. During the club's debut season, Clapton Community FC sold 11,500 away shirts, with 5,500 to Spain, after the kit was based on the International Brigades and the Flag of the Second Spanish Republic. On 11 May 2019, Clapton Community FC won the Middlesex County League Division One (Central and East), gaining promotion to the Premier Division, after a 3–0 win against FC Roast. Clapton Community FC entered the FA Vase for the first time in 2019–20.
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The club was established by Heilongjiang Volcanic Springs Green Natural Mineral Water Co., Ltd. on December 31, 2015, and took over Anhui Litian to participate in China League Two. They appointed Zoran Janković as their head coach, and finished tenth at the end of the 2016 league season.Upon the next season, Duan Xin became the Head coach of the team on December 1, 2016 and he was able to guide the club into not only the play-offs but also surprised the entire league by winning the 2017 China League Two championship, and gaining promotion to China League One for the first time in the team's history.
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Paisley Rugby Club is an amateur rugby union club based at the Anchor Recreation Grounds in Paisley. The club is currently in the West Regional League West Two. The club runs two adult teams and a host of youth teams. The 1st XV is coached by Gordon Powrie and captained by Ben Frost. With a mix of youth and experience, Paisley's 1st XV have established themselves in West Regional League West Two after finishing third in the 2016-17 season making it there third successive season on improving their league position following gaining promotion for the West Regional League West Three in the 2013-14 season.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1988–89 season were held in May 1989, with the two-legged finals taking place at the finalists home stadiums. The play-off semi-finals were also played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Second Division and Football League Third Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Fourth Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches either gaining promotion or avoiding relegation for the following season.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1990–91 season were held in May and June 1991, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium. The play-off semi- finals were also played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Second Division, the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division and the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place teams in the Football League Fourth Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1991–92 season were held in May 1992, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium. The play-off semi-finals were also played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Second Division, the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division and the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place teams in the Football League Fourth Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches gaining promotion for the following season.
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In 1996 HIK came within a whisker of reaching the Veikkausliiga (Finnish Premier League) by winning the Ykkönen South Group (Etelälohko) and then losing the Promotion Play-off 2–8 on aggregate with TP Seinäjoki. They then lost 1–2 on aggregate to HJK Helsinki in the Promotion/Relegation Playoff. In 1999 and 2000 the club were again very close indeed in gaining promotion to the Veikkausliiga finishing top of the Ykkönen South Group (Etelälohko) but on each occasion failed to progress in the Promotion Play-offs. Sadly in 2002 the club withdrew from the Ykkönen and dropped to the Kolmonen where they have subsequently remained.
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Formed in 1928 in West Allotment, a village in North Tyneside, the club played in junior leagues for their first 55 years. They then joined the Northern Alliance in 1983 and won the title 8 times before joining the Northern League in 2004. The club then won the Northern League Second Division at the first attempt, gaining promotion to Division One, where they remained until 2011 when they were relegated back to Division Two. West Allotment have participated in the FA Vase since the mid-1980s and have reached the 4th round (the last 32 stage) twice in their history, in successive seasons 2003–04 and 2004–05.
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In 1950–51, Mansfield reached the Fifth Round of the FA Cup and became the first Football League team to complete a 23–game home schedule unbeaten, although missed out on the only Third Division promotion spot. In 1959–60 the club was relegated to the recently created Fourth Division, before gaining promotion back to the Third Division in 1962–63. This promotion was later tainted by life-time suspensions handed out to players Brian Phillips and Sammy Chapman for bribing opponents, including players of Hartlepools United in a vital match which Mansfield won 4–3. Two seasons later, the club again narrowly missed out on promotion to the Second Division.
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In 2003 they finished as runners-up, gaining promotion back to the Supreme Division, but were relegated back again two years later because of their failure to install floodlights. This blow came just days after they had won the Sheffield & Hallamshire Association Cup for the second year running. It wasn't until the league restructured in 2011 to form North and South divisions that the club regained Step 7 status in the English football league system. In 2013 the club decided, due to the cost of travelling to away games, to leave the CMFL, and join the more local Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Football League (S&HCSL;).
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Founded in 1998 as Club Deportivo Berio Futbol Taldea, in 2016 the team was integrated fully into the structure of Real Sociedad, becoming its second reserve squad. In the previous two seasons, after gaining promotion to the Tercera División, Berio operated as a farm team for Real Sociedad but still played at their own stadium wearing their traditional green kit. From then on, they would play at Zubieta and wear Real Sociedad blue-and-white colours. In general, the Real C squad will be graduates from the club's youth system aged between 17 and 20, and successful players will move up to Real Sociedad B (Sanse) after one or two seasons.
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Neil Redfearn stepped up to convert it and a mass pitch invasion followed, as it had been confirmed that West Ham had lost 2–1 at home to Notts County. In gaining promotion to the top flight, Oldham Athletic were forced to have the plastic pitch removed because of league rules. They stayed in the top division for three seasons (1991–92, 1992–93 and 1993–94) before being relegated, and after three disappointing seasons in the second tier were relegated again in 1997. They remained in the third division, which was later called League One, until they were relegated at the end of the 2017–18 season.
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Subhi played for the Brunei representative team starting in 2000 when he was drafted in to replace several players who retired immediately after winning the 1999 Malaysia Cup. When DPMM FC replaced his team in the Malaysia Premier League in 2005, he joined Wijaya FC for the 2005–06 Brunei Premier League. He moved to DPMM in 2006, gaining promotion to the Malaysia Super League in his first season and finishing third in the following season. Subhi would next experience an eventful three years with DPMM, influenced by the deregistration of BAFA by the Registrar of Societies, prompting FIFA to suspend Brunei in 2009.
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Sangakkara represented Surrey from 2015 till 2017, helping them win Division Two of LV= 2015 County Championship and gaining promotion to Division One for the Specsavers 2016 County Championship season. Surrey also reached the finals of 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup before losing by six runs to Gloucestershire. On 22 May 2017, Sangakkara announced that the following season would be his last in first-class cricket. He made the announcement after scoring four consecutive centuries becoming the fourth Surrey batsman to achieve this feat (Ian Ward was the last to do it in 2002), pass 20,000 first-class and having scored 592 runs in the said four games.
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However their stay in the division was to last as long as the Third Division South itself. With only the champions gaining promotion, it was a difficult division to get out of, although Palace came close on more than one occasion. In the fourteen Third Division South seasons pre-Second World War, Palace finished above eighth place ten times, and never lower than fourteenth and also finished runners-up no less than three times. At the start of the 1939–40 season, Palace were sitting second in the table, but the season was cancelled after just three matches with the onset of the Second World War.
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The last decade has been a rollercoaster with the highlight being the 2004 season when the club finished top of the West Group of the Kakkonen (Second Division) only to fail in the play-offs in gaining promotion to the Ykkönen (First Division). The club over-stretched themselves and withdrew from the Kakkonen for 2005 before starting again in the Nelonen (Fourth Division) in 2006. With back to back promotions FJK achieved their former status in the Kakkonen for 2008. This time they were less successful in the third tier and quickly slipped back into the Kolmonen (Third Division) where the club currently reside.
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Rubiales was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. During his Spanish career, spent mainly in Segunda División, he represented Guadix CF, RCD Mallorca B, UE Lleida, Xerez CD, Levante UD (gaining promotion to La Liga in 2004 and 2006) and Alicante CF. He made his debut in the Spanish top flight on 29 August 2004, coming on as a late substitute in a 1–1 away draw against Real Sociedad. On 4 August 2009, it was announced he had agreed a one-year deal at Scottish Premier League side Hamilton Academical. However, after only three league appearances – four official – he left the club and returned to his country.
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The 1967–68 season was Stoke City's 61st season in the Football League and the 37th in the First Division. Since gaining promotion back to the First Division in 1963, Stoke had done well and managed to consistently finish in mid-table avoiding any fears of relegation. However, in 1967–68 Stoke did have a later than expected fight against relegation and after going seven straight matches without a win towards the end of the season it looked as if Stoke were heading back to the Second Division but a thrilling 3–2 win over Leeds set Stoke up to beat Liverpool on the final day ensuring survival by three points.
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Towards the end of the campaign he was moved into the defense, and played several games at right wing-half and right fullback. He ended the season with five goals in 23 appearances as Nelson finished as champions of the Third Division North, gaining promotion to the Football League Second Division for the first time in their history. In a higher division, Black found his first-team opportunities limited, playing six games at the start of the season, including one match in the unfamiliar position of inside-right. His final league appearance for Nelson came on 15 September 1923 in the 1–1 home draw with Hull City.
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The club merged with Perth City for a single season in 2003, and were called The City. They won the 1st Division in 2005, gaining promotion to the Premier League for the first time, but they only lasted there for two seasons. They next won the 1st Division in 2013, but there was no promotion scenario that year, and they were not selected as one of the 12 initial teams in the newly formed National Premier Leagues WA for the 2014 season. The following year they came bottom of the league table, and were relegated to the WA State League Division 2 for the 2015 season.
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Season 1998–99 was a successful season for Hibs, as the club bounced back from the relegation suffered in 1998, gaining promotion at the first attempt with a record points total.Hibs' tidal wave of success engulfs team all at sea, Scotland on Sunday, 2 May 1999. There was disappointment in the cup competitions, however, as the club were beaten by Stirling Albion in the Scottish Cup, and were hammered 4–0 by St Johnstone in the League Cup. As a First Division club, Hibs would have entered the Scottish Challenge Cup, but the competition was not played during the 1998–99 season due to a lack of sponsorship.
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Born in Glasgow, McNaught began playing at Auchengill Boys Club in the city's Easterhouse district, where he was spotted by Hamilton Academical, signing for the second-tier club in 1982 (one of the last players bought in by manager Davie McParland). His combative and energetic performances drew the attention of bigger clubs, particularly during the 1985–86 Scottish First Division season which eventually culminated in Accies, led by John Lambie, winning the title and gaining promotion to the top flight for the first time in 20 years. By then, McNaught had moved on, signing for Chelsea of England's top division in May 1986 for a fee of £80,000.
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Over the next couple of decades the club would play in the district leagues, third division and second division. From 1989–90 to 2000–01 they played in the second division before gaining promotion to the Segunda Liga before being relegated once again to the second division in which they would six seasons before being promoted to the Segunda Liga in the 2007–08 season. Ever since the 2008–09 they have played in the Segunda Liga and achieved the club's best ever cup run in their history in the 2011–12 season where they reached the semi-final stage before being knocked out by eventually winners Académica de Coimbra.
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Napoli at the start of the 1970s with Dino Zoff, José Altafini, and others As the club changed their name to Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli on 25 June 1964 they began to rise up again, gaining promotion in 1964–65. Under the management of former player Bruno Pesaola, they won the Coppa delle Alpi and were back among the elite in Serie A, with consistent top-five finishes. Napoli came very close to winning the league in 1967–68, finishing just behind Milan in second place. Some of the most popular players from this period were Dino Zoff, José Altafini, Omar Sívori and hometown midfielder Antonio Juliano.
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At Parma, however, Bucci was soon overtaken by the emergence of 18-year-old Primavera keeper Gianluigi Buffon during the 1996–97 season. Bucci started the season as the starting keeper for the first seven games. After dispute with the first time coach Carlos and emergence of Buffon, moved Bucci to leave the team in order to play more regularly. After playing six months for Perugia, Bucci joined second-tier Torino in 1997, later gaining promotion to Serie A throughout his time with the Turin club after winning the 2000–01 Serie B title with the club, and remaining with the granata for six seasons, until his contract expired.
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In the 2009–10 season, Ayr United celebrated their centennial year by gaining promotion to The First Division after the play-off victory at The Excelsior Stadium against Airdrie United. Ayr were promoted after a five-year stint in the Second Division. Airdrie United were later rewarded First Division status after Livingston were double-relegated to the Fourth Tier of Scottish football for financial reasons. Ayr were promoted along with Fife side Raith Rovers; the other club joining the First Division after being absent for half a decade are Inverness Caledonian Thistle, who were relegated from the SPL at the end of the 2008–09 season.
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On 19 June 2012, Port Vale were given odds of 40 to 1 of gaining promotion. The club had lost some its best players as versatile defender Lee Collins, midfield general Anthony Griffith, and top-scorers Sean Rigg and Marc Richards all signed big money deals elsewhere – the latter two moving to club's expecting to win promotion out of League Two. With the club's new owner in place, Adams signed six players early in July. He first signed midfielder Darren Murphy and winger Jennison Myrie-Williams (who had impressed in a loan spell at the club the previous season) from Stevenage, as well as Colchester United attacker Ashley Vincent.
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In 2018, the team qualified for the play-off stage of 2018 Chinese Champions League. After beating Shenzhen Xinqiao and Shanxi Metropolis in the play-offs, the club advanced to the semi-finals, securing a spot in the final four of the highest level of Chinese amateur football, and gaining promotion to China League Two. Although their promotion was denied at first, they were finally granted a last-minute admission into 2019 China League Two after the dissolution of Yanbian Funde in China League One and the subsequent promotion of Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic, securing its final spot. In 2020 Wuyue Qiantang quitted 2020 China League Two.
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He only spent one season with Chester, where he played 30 league matches without scoring, before Frank Casper signed him for Fourth Division club Burnley on a free transfer in August 1990. He made his debut for the Clarets on the opening day of the 1990–91 season, coming on as a substitute for Paul France in a 2–2 draw with Lincoln City at Turf Moor. He played a further ten games that season, helping Burnley achieve a play-off place. Injuries limited Hamilton to only five first-team matches in 1991–92 as Burnley won the Fourth Division, gaining promotion to the third tier.
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The club's first season in the Northern Premier League was memorable, winning the First Division Championship and the Unifilla First Division League Cup. Since gaining promotion the club has held its own in the Premier division, finishing 6th and 7th in its first two seasons as well as lifting the President's Cup defeating former Conference side Runcorn in the final. Following this success the executive looked firstly to John Charlton (son of Jack Charlton)"Blyth spirit stirred by Charlton the Younger", The Telegraph, 13 May 2001 Retrieved 10 December 2014. followed by Paul Baker as team managers but they were unable to continue this success, disappointing fans.
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The club's name derives from its foundation in 1962 with a team of former pupils, with some teachers and current pupils, of Alleyne's Grammar School, Stone, Staffordshire (now Alleyne's Academy). The club started in Division 4 of the Stafford Amateur League, gaining promotion to Division 3 in their second season. The following season saw them promoted again and further promotion followed as they finished as champions of Division 2. The 1970–71 season saw the club win the league for the first time, and then winning it again a further 3 times. The club joined the North Staffs Alliance League for the start of the 1980–81 season.
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Clubs promoted from Step 5 leagues were placed in the most geographically appropriate Step 4 leagues as determined by the FA's Leagues Committee. The number of clubs promoted from the Alliance each season could vary, as regulations stated that the "ten most suitable clubs from the leagues at Step 5" will gain promotion. All clubs gaining promotion from the Alliance were placed in either the Southern League or the Northern Premier League. Teams finishing at the bottom of the Alliance table could be relegated to an appropriate feeder league, depending on the number of teams remaining in the division after other promotion and relegation issues have been resolved.
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The team began playing the Tercera Division de Mexico where they were able to win the 1969–70 season gaining promotion to Segunda Division. In the 1970–71 season San Luis was able to win Segunda Division. This automatically gave them the promotion to go to Primera Division for the 1971–72 season. Their stint in Primera Division was cut short after losing the relegation playoff against Laguna in the 1973–74 season. It did not take long for San Luis to once again win Segunda Division and in 1975–76 they achieved the title and the right for promotion for the 1976–77 season.
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Ultimately they were denied cruelly by the aggregate tries rule, having tied the scores with the Premiership's second bottom side Bedford at 38–38, leaving Rotherham to endure another season in National Division One. However, in 1999–2000 Rotherham enjoyed a near faultless season, losing only two games and winning their first National League 1 title, setting up a promotion playoff re-match with Bedford. The first leg saw Rotherham score four tries winning 40–20 at home, while the second leg was one of Rotherham's most dramatic; conceding two penalty tries losing 14–0 to win on aggregate 40–34 gaining promotion to the top tier.
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Pencaitland, from the nearby village of the same name, were originally founded in 1919. They won the Scottish Amateur Cup in 1984 and then joined the East of Scotland League in 1986, eventually gaining promotion and competing in the Premier Division for four seasons.Pencaitland, Football Club History Database Ormiston Primrose were originally founded in the 1890s and reached the final of the Scottish Junior Cup in 1989.Club History, Ormiston FC, 17 November 2006 For a couple of years the club used the name Pencaitland & OrmistonPencaitland & Ormiston, Football Club History Database but decided to shorten it to just Ormiston F.C. in 2003, although they retain strong links to Pencaitland.
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Salam Zgharta also established its own academy the same year. The club eventually won the 2012–13 Lebanese Second Division after topping Group A, gaining promotion to the Premier League. In their return to the Premier League in the 2013–14 season, Salam Zgharta hired Peter Meindertsma as their head coach. While the club struggled to avoid relegation in the league, they won the 2013–14 Lebanese FA Cup, after beating AC Tripoli 1–0 after extra time in the final. In 2015, Salam Zgharta participated for the first time in the AFC Cup after winning the one-legged qualifying play-off round match against Khayr Vahdat 3–0 at home.
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RCL won the game 35-19 in front of a large crowd at Cessange, reaching the promotion final against StuSta Munich. RCL beat Munich 18-12, after leading 18-0 at half time, gaining promotion to Bundesliga 1 and now hopes to establish itself in the German topflight for the 2018-2019 season. In July 2018, the construction of covered spectator stands began and was completed by September 2018, now offering seating opportunities and shelter to the fans and improving the atmosphere at home games. A much required club house is being constructed at Stade Boy Konen has also been constructed in December 2019, which will substantially the club to grow.
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In 1960 he was appointed Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff gaining promotion to air chief marshal on 1 September 1961. Three years later he became the first Chief of the Defence Staff, serving from 1964 until 1966. As Chief of the Defence Staff, Miller was opposed to the plans of the Defence Minister Paul Hellyer to merge the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army into one service, and in 1966 resigned in protest, saying he could not in good conscience co-operate with Hellyer's plans.Morton, Desmond A Military History of Canada, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999 page 252.
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This was to be their only league title until 1991, when the club won the DH Atlantique, thereby gaining promotion to Division 4, the equivalent of the current CFA. In 1993, as part of the restructuring of the French league system, the club was moved to the newly formed National 3, the fifth tier of the pyramid. Relegation back to the regional divisions followed in 1997. The 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons saw Châteaubriant achieve successive promotions, winning the DH Atlantique and then the CFA2 Group A, to return to the fourth level of French football for the first time in over 20 years.
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Shortly after that, they gained promotion to the United Counties League, where they have remained ever since. Newport Pagnell joined the North Bucks League after formation in 1963 before gaining promotion in 1972. Brackley Town are the ex-North Bucks League side that play at the highest level; they currently participate in the Conference North and hold the record the ex-North Bucks League member making the longest run in the FA Cup, achieving an appearance in the FA Cup Second Round Proper in 2013. Brackley played in the League in two spells: from post-World War II until 1968 and from 1974 until 1983.
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Although they missed out on joining their arch-rivals, as they had just left to form the Alliance Premier League. The sale of the club's Central Ground to Sainsbury's allowed the club to move to a much more modern stadium, although it was over a mile away in nearby Wincham. The second season at Wincham Park in 1990–91 proved to be one of the best seasons in the club's history as they won the NPL by 16 points, gaining promotion to the Football Conference. However, the club found this tough going and continual relegation struggles resulted in the first relegation in the club's history in 1994.
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The 2013 season is Ligi Ndogo Sports Club's second year in the FKF Division One and their third consecutive season in the second tier of the Kenyan football league system. The Planets have gone through the lower tiers of the Kenyan football league system, beginning in the Nationwide League's Second Division in 2006 before gaining promotion to the First Division in 2007. They remained in this division (which has since become FKF Division One) until the end of 2013, where they finished in fourth place in Zone A (Group 1) to secure promotion to the newly formed National Super League for the 2014 season.
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The club came close to Landesliga (IV) promotion when it finished second in the Bezirksliga Mittelfranken-Nord in 1971,Bezirksliga Mittelfranken Nord Manfreds Fussball Archiv, accessed: 4 October 2008 after having been promoted to this league the year before. The club remained in the Bezirksliga for a number of seasons without being able to archive quite so well again and eventually was relegated again. In 1992, the FSV regained its Bezirksliga status once more. It finished in the upper half of the table in the following seasons, gaining promotion to the Bezirksoberliga Mittelfranken in 1996 on the strength of a second place in the league.
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Schaedel, Australian Air Ace, pp. 73–77 He journeyed to Britain with new wife Madge (née Moffat), whom he married on 5 March, just before departing Australia; they had one daughter, Carleen, the following year. Pentland completed the course at Central Flying School, Uphavon, and became an instructor there, gaining promotion to flight lieutenant before leaving the RAF on 20 July 1926 and returning to Australia.Schaedel, Australian Air Ace, pp. 77–78 alt=Single-engined biplane on floats, parked on the water with two boys in foreground In 1927, Pentland formed Mandated Territory Airways with entrepreneur Albert Royal to fly freight to and from the goldfields of New Guinea.
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He was a first team regular making nineteen appearances and scoring three goals as the side finished in second place, gaining promotion to the CFA. He had the option to stay for another season with Sedan, however, he moved up a division to Championnat National side Poiré-sur-Vie. He was a regular for the first half of the season but then picked up a thigh injury which ruled him out for the majority of the remaining campaign. At the end of the season Poiré- sur-Vie were demoted due to financial reasons and Dikamona chose to leave the club and went to train with the UNFP.
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The club joined the Worcestershire Combination in 1951, winning the championship at the very first attempt and finishing as runners-up five times in the next decade. In 1982 they merged with Walsall Sportsco. and the new club became known as Walsall Borough F.C. and continued to play in what was now known as the Midland Combination. In 1986 the Walsall Wood name was re-adopted. In 1992 the club switched to the Staffordshire Senior League for one season before relocating once again to the West Midlands (Regional) League, starting in Division One but gaining promotion to the Premier Division at the first attempt.
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Tony Greenwood was appointed manager in 2003; soon afterwards, Andy Pilley took over as chairman. With his financial input, the club gained successive promotions as North West Counties League champions in 2005 and Northern Premier League First Division runners-up in 2006. This saw the club reach the Northern Premier League Premier Division. Fleetwood Town won the Northern Premier League Challenge Cup in the 2006–07 season, beating Matlock Town 1–0, and finished the season just shy of the play-offs in eighth place with 67 points. In the 2007–08 season Fleetwood won the Northern Premier League, gaining promotion to the Conference North.
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A committee formed itself in the summer of 1991 and took over the name "South Liverpool A.F.C." The club committee carried on the club from the defunct limited company in 1991–92 with only a junior team operating in the West Derby Junior league. For 1992–93 the senior side merged with local side Cheshire Lines whilst the junior team carried on under the club's own name. The new team, Cheshire Lines South Liverpool, played in the Second Division of the Liverpool County Combination, gaining promotion in their first season. After a successful first season in the First Division, the clubs took the decision to split.
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Takács arrived in Vejle Boldklub during a low point where, after gaining promotion to the Danish Superliga, the club had lost their first five matches with the score 4-15. He debuted against Danish champions FC Copenhagen on the right-back, the fourth player in six matches to play that position. He played eight matches in a row, but suffered an injury in October 2006. After Ove Christensen replaced Kim Poulsen as manager of Vejle Boldklub in April 2007, Takács only played two matches for the club's first team, his last match being the 2-3 defeat against Odense Boldklub on 9 April 2007.
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The next season saw them begin their football life in the Segunda Divisão. Estoril played in the division for 22 years before gaining promotion to the top flight again. Following the appointment of experienced English manager Jimmy Hagan in 1973 who prior to being appointed as manager of Estoril had managed Benfica to three consecutive league titles in 1970–71, 1971–72 and 1972–73 as well as a Taça de Portugal in the 1971–72 season he helped the club achieve promotion to Primeira Liga. The club's return saw them finish an impressive eighth place in the league as well as a quarter-finalist in the cup competition.
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With five minutes of normal time remaining, Charlton were losing 3-2 before Rufus scored his first ever senior goal from a corner, forcing the game into extra-time. After the resulting 4–4 draw, the Addicks went on to win the game 7–6 on penalties, thus gaining promotion into the Premier League. Despite being sent off in his first Premier League game against Newcastle United, Rufus developed into a key player in Charlton's ultimately unsuccessful bid to avoid relegation. He remained with the club and enjoyed a very productive 1999–2000 season scoring six goals and helping Charlton to win the First Division title.
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The club's reserve team, FC Memmingen II, played in the Bezirksoberliga Schwaben (VI) in the 2007–08 season, coming second at the end of season. This finish qualified them for the promotion round, where they lost both games and therefore would have remained in the Bezirksoberliga but due to the third placed team from the Landesliga gaining promotion, too, the FCM II was also promoted. Outclassed in the Landesliga, the team had to return to the Bezirksoberliga immediately. At the end of the 2011–12 season the team qualified for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing eighth in the Bezirksoberliga and defeating TSV Neusäß in the promotion round.
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38, Historical Jewish Press as well as in local competitions. After the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the club was re-established in 1953,The Tiberians Jump Through Zvi Lavi, Ma'ariv, 19 May 1961, Historical Jewish Press and played for several years in Liga Gimel, before gaining promotion to Liga Bet. At the end of 1958–59 season, the club finished top of Liga Bet, North Division and was promoted to Liga Alef. During this period, the club competed in Gvia HaHit'achadut, a cup competition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Israel, and won the cup, beating Hapoel Be'er Sheva 7–1 in the final.
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The 2013–14 season will be Swindon Town's second consecutive season in the League One since gaining promotion from League Two in 2012. Swindon will seek to better the 2012–13 season, a campaign that resulted in the Wiltshire club finishing 6th overall and losing in the Play-offs to Brentford at the semi- final stage. Alongside the league campaign, Swindon Town will also compete in the FA Cup, League Cup and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. The 2013–14 campaign was scheduled to be Kevin MacDonald's first full season as manager of Swindon Town after replacing Paolo Di Canio in February 2012 but the Scotsman resigned during pre-season.
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Byrne joined Watford F.C. in 2001, brought in by Vialli on a three-year contract. The club drew up an ambitious three-year plan of gaining promotion from the second-tier First Division and returning to the Premiership where it had played during the 1999–00 season. Several high- profile signings, such as 30-year-old Ramon Vega and 24-year-old Stephen Hughes, joined in summer 2001 as the wage bills soared, with even Vialli paid close to £1 million a year. Byrne's exact duties as general manager in Vialli's management team were very loosely defined as he became involved in various aspects of the club's backroom business.
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Middlesbrough and Ironopolis Football and Athletic Club was a short lived football club based in the town of Middlesbrough, North East England. Middlesbrough Ironopolis Football Club formed as a split from Middlesbrough Football Club in 1889, and both teams made the move from amateur to professional football within a week of each other in December 1889. However, both teams came to realise their only real chance of gaining promotion to the Football League was through a reunion of the two teams. On 7 May 1892, after a meeting between the two clubs, an application to join the Football League was made under the name Middlesbrough and Ironopolis Football Club.
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He scored 3 goals in 13 appearances for the club. In 2013, he was signed up by Thai side, BEC Tero Sasana F.C. where he scored 7 goals in 28 appearances for the club. He was released in December 2013, after the club decided not to renew his contract. On 15 January 2014, he signed a 12 months contract with Championnat de France Amateur 2 side, SC Le Las , scoring 14 goals in 30 appearances in the process, and helped the club to gain a second placing in the league, hence gaining promotion to Championnat de France Amateur , the fourth tier of the French football league.
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The near miss in gaining promotion the previous season had ensured that there was considerable confidence in the team going into season 2004-05 to make that further step. However, despite a successful opening spell, results were not as good as anticipated, and in December Brian Fairlie would make way for Paul Martin in the manager's seat. There was to be no great resurgence in results and in the end a disappointing 7th place was achieved. In the Scottish Cup, after defeating Cowdenbeath in the first round, it would be Berwick Rangers that would advance from the second round tie, after a drawn match.
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The club spent the next three years in the second tier of Serbian football, before being relegated back to the Serbian League East in 2011. After dropping to the Niš Zone League in 2013, the club was promoted back to the Serbian League East in 2014 and subsequently to the Serbian First League in 2015. They spent the following three years in the second tier, finishing runners-up in the 2017–18 season and gaining promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga for the first time in their history. However, the club failed to avoid relegation in its debut appearance in the top flight after losing to Inđija in the playoffs.
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After four seasons of mid-table finishes manager Mick Mills spent big to turn Stoke into a side capable of gaining promotion to the First Division. He spent good money, breaking the club's record transfer of £480,000 for Sheffield Wednesday defender Ian Cranson, £75,000 on Derek Statham from West Bromwich Albion, £175,000 for Ian Scott and £250,000 for Wayne Biggins both from Manchester City. All four started the first match of the season in a 1–1 draw at home to West Ham United in front of an expectant crowd of 16,058. The teams's overall displays, however, left a lot to be desired and favourable results proved elusive, Stoke failing to win any of their first 11 matches.
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Following his arrival in England during November 1804, Hoghton was given command of the newly raised 2nd battalion, 8th Regiment of Foot, gaining promotion to full colonel the following year. After training and preparing the regiment, Hoghton was dispatched with his troops to Denmark for participation in the Siege of Copenhagen under Sir Arthur Wellesley, whose brother Hoghton had known in India. Hoghton was not heavily engaged at Copenhagen and was soon transferred to the West Indies once more, participating in the invasion and capture of Martinique in 1809. It was for this reason that Hoghton did not join Wellesley in the Iberian Peninsula until 1810, taking command of a brigade in Cadiz.
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Irlam Town competed in the FA Vase in the 1976–77 season and joined the Cheshire County League Division Two in 1978, and after finishing third in the 1981–82 season the club was successful in gaining promotion to the North West Counties Football League Division Two via application. This followed a run in the FA Vase where they reached the Fifth Round before being knocked out by Willenhall Town. Irlam Town was promoted to NWCFL Division One after finishing runners up in the 1984–85 season. After two season in this division, during which they made their debut in the FA Cup, the club was moved up to the Northern Premier League Division One, becoming a founding member.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1986–87 season were held in May 1987, with the two-legged finals taking place at the finalists home stadiums. The play-off semi-finals were also played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th and 5th place in the Football League Second Division and Football League Third Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th placed teams in the Football League Fourth Division table, along with a team from the league above. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches either gaining promotion or avoiding relegation for the following season.
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The league was formed under the name of Amateurliga Berlin in 1947 as the second tier of play in the then still united city of Berlin, below the "old" Oberliga Berlin. The league operated with two groups in the 1947-48 season, split into four groups the year after, returned to two in 1949-50 and run in one single group from then onwards. After this season, the East Berlin clubs left the Berlin league system to join that of East Germany instead. It consisted of twelve teams from 1950, with the two first placed clubs gaining promotion to the Oberliga and the two bottom placed teams being relegated to the Landesliga.
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At the end of the 2008–09 season, Congleton finished fourth in the Premier Division, behind AFC Fylde, New Mills and Newcastle Town, with only the first placed side gaining promotion to the Northern Premier League. Regardless of where they had finished, Congleton would not have gained promotion because they did not submit a promotion application. At the end of the 2010–11 season joint managers Anthony Buckle and Darren Twigg stepped down. Giuseppe "Joe" Paladino, ex-Wigan Athletic goalkeeper, who was assistant manager at Rossendale United at the end of last season was appointed at the beginning of the season, but some disappointing results and declining attendances saw his reign short-lived.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1987–88 season were held in May 1988, with the two-legged finals taking place at the finalists home stadiums. The play-off semi-finals were also played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th and 5th place in the Football League Second Division and Football League Third Division and the 4th, 5th, 6th placed teams in the Football League Fourth Division table, along with a team from the league above. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches either gaining promotion or avoiding relegation for the following season.
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In 2009, following the announcement that Shane Miller and Craig Harrison would be departing as owners, Hall put together a working group of local Doncaster businessmen, who would run the club together, and ensure that it was kept secure financially. In 2013, following the club gaining promotion back to the Championship, the second-tier of the Rugby Football League, Hall sold the club to "Club Doncaster", part of the ownership group of Doncaster Rovers F.C. Following this sale, he was appointed CEO of the club, and has since remained in that position. In December 2018, it was announced that Hall will be appointed as the Vice President of the Rugby Football League over the summer of 2019.
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9 He also made a second-half appearance as a substitute for Mark McGhee in the 2–1 defeat against Rangers in the 1986 Scottish League Cup Final. In June 1989 Archdeacon moved to Barnsley for £80,000 he and became a fixture for the Yorkshire club in the following seasons. He made 233 league appearances for the "Tykes", scoring 23 goals. Barnsley were an established side in England's second tier at that time (Division Two until 1992 when it was re-branded Division One on the formation of the FA Premier League), never quite succeeding in gaining promotion although they narrowly missed out on a play- off spot in 1990-91 on goal difference.
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In the first season in Division Three, the club finished in fourth place before improving on that for the 2016–17 season, finishing second to Llantwit Major and gaining promotion to Division Two. In their first season in Division Two the club finished in fourth place, before being crowned champions in the 2018–19 season. The season included a record 20–0 Welsh League Cup away win over Caerau which saw five STM Sports players score hat-tricks. The team also reached the semi-final of the FAW Trophy before losing in extra time to Cefn Albion in a match that was marred by claims of racism against two STM Sports players by supporters of Cefn Albion.
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They secured a 2–1 victory at Deepdale in December 2004 and won by the same scoreline at the Boleyn Ground the following March. During that match, Tomáš Řepka was sent off for headbutting Brian O'Neil in his right eye and a mass brawl ensued in the tunnel after the final whistle. Cresswell was the highest scorer for Preston throughout the season with 16 goals, while West Ham's top marksman was Teddy Sheringham who had 20 followed by Harewood with 17. Preston had played in the second tier of English football since gaining promotion in the 1999–2000 season as champions of the Football League Second Division, and had not taken part in the top tier for 44 years.
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After finishing third in the 2013–14 season, the club won the Division d'Honneur, and promotion to Championnat de France Amateur 2 in the 2014–15 season, on goal average having finished level on points with AF Lozère. The club finished top of their CFA 2 group, gaining promotion to the Championnat de France Amateur. The club narrowly avoided relegation from the 2016–17 Championnat de France Amateur, after finishing in the relegation places but gaining a reprieve due to administrative decisions affecting other clubs. In 2018 the club were relegated by finishing bottom of their Championnat National 2 group, and given a further administrative relegation of two divisions due to financial non-compliance.
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In the first full season after the culmination of World War I, West End finished fourth, before finishing second, behind Seaham Harbour, in the 1920–21 season. The club finished fourth for four consecutive seasons thereafter, before a decline in the second half of the 1920s saw the club play their final campaign in the league in the 1929–30 season, finishing second from bottom. In 2011, Houghton Town changed their name to Sunderland West End, signalling the first time in 81 years a club by the name of Sunderland West End had competed in the Wearside League. West End finished runners-up in the 2018–19 Wearside League season, gaining promotion to the Northern League Division Two.
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Callaghan's form was of such a high level it was virtually impossible for Livermore to replace him. Realising this, and although sad to have leave his hometown club, he decided to pursue his career elsewhere. After just 18 first team appearances for the Reds, he moved to Norfolk club Norwich City on 26 November 1970. Doug had a fairly successful time at Carrow Road where he helped the club to win the 1971/72 2nd Division championship, thus gaining promotion the top flight of English football. He was also part of the City side that lost 1–0 to Tottenham Hotspur in the 1973 League Cup final, the first time the Canaries had reached a Wembley showpiece final.
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Under the captaincy of Jack Parish Buckingham Town CC were crowned Champions of the Home Counties Premier League Division 2 2018 after a runaway successful season in which they lost only one match and in 2019 will make their debut in Division 1. Town finished 7th in their first season in the HCPL division in their debut season 2019. Their 3rd XI were champions of division 6 of the Cherwell League under skipper Brijesh Valambhia to gain promotion to division 5 in 2020 and their 4th XI were runners-up in division 8 of the Cherwell League under skipper Dane Tuttlebee thus gaining promotion to division 7 in 2020. At their recent 150th AGM new team captains were announced.
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South West 1 East is an English, level six, rugby union league in south and south-west England; mainly Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucester, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire. Originally a single division known as South West 2, since 1996 the division has been split into two regional leagues - South West 1 East and South West 1 West. The champions are promoted to South West Premier (formerly National League 3 South West) and the runners-up play the second team in South West 1 West, with the winning team gaining promotion. Relegated sides usually play in one of the two seventh-tier leagues (depending on location) – Southern Counties North or Southern Counties South.
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Despite his complete lack of experience in the division, Cosmi immediately won hands down Serie D, leading Arezzo back to professional football. In 1998, again with Cosmi, Arezzo qualified to and won the Serie C2 promotion playoffs, gaining promotion to Serie C1. In 1999/2000, despite the contributions of Fabio Bazzani, Arezzo lost promotion playoffs; the following year, after Cosmi left Arezzo for Serie A side Perugia, Antonio Cabrini was appointed as new coach, and Mario Frick replaced Bazzani as forward. The team returned to Serie B in 2004, with Mario Somma as coach; the next season, which saw Pasquale Marino replacing Somma, who signed for Empoli, Arezzo barely maintained a Serie B place.
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The third tier of the Bolivian football league system consists of nine regional leagues (one for each department); the number of participants varies depending on the department. It usually has between 8 and 12 teams. The winner and the runner-up of each league compete in the Copa Simón Bolívar, with the winner of such tournament gaining promotion to the 1st Division, and the runner-up playing a play-off match with the last two placed teams in the First Division. Until 1976, all 8 regional championships (Pando didn't have an organized tournament at the time) were the top division of the national football pyramid, with the winner of the Copa Simón Bolívar being crowned as national champion.
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The Group B tournament began on 12 March 2007 in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania. Australia, Croatia and Lithuania all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championships. Serbia made their debut appearance in the World U18 Championships after replacing the Serbia and Montenegro men's national under-18 ice hockey team, the change in team coinciding with Montenegro's declaration of independence and the eventual split of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. South Korea entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Romania entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships.
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In 1929, Bawa was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Ceylon Light Infantry, a reservist regiment of the Ceylon Defence Force. In 1934, Lieutenant Bawa was appointed as Aide-de-camp (ADC) to the Governor, Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs; a post held by his father years before. He served sixteen years at the King's House in the staff of the Governor and thereafter the Governor General as the ADC to Sir Andrew Caldecott, Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore and Lord Soulbury, gaining promotion to the rank of Captain and thereafter Major. He was one of the initial officers of the newly formed Ceylon Army and one of only nine Majors in the army at the time.
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By May the same year he had moved to ABC for the 2015 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B season. Dedé returned to Santa Cruz for a third spell at the start of 2016. In July 2016 he was loaned to Cuiabá for the remainder of the season. In 2017 he was contracted by Treze for Campeonato Paraibano, after which he signed for Portuguesa for 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D. He returned to Treze for the 2018 season, playing in the Paraibano, 2018 Copa do Nordeste and most significantly, gaining promotion from 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D. In the promotion-winning game, Dedé scored the winning goal against Caxias, and his celebrations in front of the Caxias fans.
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Devon League 1 (known as Tribute Devon League 1 for sponsorship reasons), is an English level nine, rugby union league for clubs based in Devon (and sometimes includes one Cornish club — St Columba & Torpoint). The champions are promoted to Cornwall/Devon and the runner-up, plays the second team from Cornwall League 1, with the winning team gaining promotion. Up until the end of the 2017-18 season, teams were relegated to Devon League 2 but since that league has been abolished there is currently no relegation. Each year a team from Devon League 1 is picked to take part in the RFU Junior Vase - a national cup competition for clubs at levels 9-12.
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During his club career he played mostly for Torino (1981–1992 and 1995–98), also playing for Serie B Cesena on loan for two seasons (1983–85), and later for Lazio (1992–95), where he managed to help the club to a second-place finish during the 1994–95 season. Throughout his career, he became Torino's captain, and he helped the Turin side to win the 1989–90 Serie B title, gaining promotion to Serie A the following season, as well as the 1991 Mitropa Cup. He also helped his team to a Coppa Italia final in 1982, and to reach the 1992 UEFA Cup final. He retired with Torino in Serie B, in 1998.
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However, Rotherham were denied promotion based on the fact that there stadium, Clifton Lane, was not at the required standard. To rectify this and meet premiership stadium criteria, in time for the 2002/03 season Rotherham moved stadiums to Millmoor and shared it with Rotherham United FC. The first meeting of the 2002–03 campaign between the two teams came at Millmoor on 23 November. Despite being fairly early on in the season, a big five point win for Rotherham in front of over 4,000 fans, including a sizeable away following from Worcester, was a huge step in Rotherham winning the league and gaining promotion. This encounter was yet again a very heated and physical battle.
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Redknapp became director of football for Portsmouth in 2001, and when the Leicester City manager's job became vacant with the dismissal of Peter Taylor that autumn, Redknapp was widely tipped to take over at the East Midlands club, but stayed loyal to Pompey, with the Leicester job going to Dave Bassett. Ironically, it was reported in the national media that had Redknapp taken over, Bassett would have been on his coaching staff at the East Midlands club. However, after the club's poor form, he replaced manager Graham Rix in March 2002. Redknapp managed the club to the Division One title in the 2002–03 season, gaining promotion to the Premier League, replacing his former club West Ham.
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Bohinen is perhaps best well known in England for his time with Nottingham Forest. He moved from BSC Young Boys to Frank Clark's Nottingham Forest for a £450,000 fee in 1993. He joined Forest at a time when they were struggling in the first division of English Football, and a clause in his contract meant that he could leave at any time if another club matched a £700,000 buyout fee. After gaining promotion to the Premier League with Forest, Bohinen stayed there for another season which included some famous goals for the Norwegian, most notably a 30-yard chip at White Hart Lane in a 4-1 victory for Forest against Tottenham Hotspur.
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Monkeys are a frequent motif in modern Chinese art. Several examples (Eberhard 2003:193) are based on a visual pun between hou 侯 "marquis; count" and hou 猴 "monkey". Since mashang 馬上 literally means "on horseback" or figuratively "immediately", an image of a monkey riding a horse is called mashang fenghou馬上封侯 "May you immediately be conferred the rank of marquis", which is a Chinese gift of congratulations for gaining promotion. Another visual pun showing one monkey crouching on the bei 背 "back" of another bei 辈 "generation" can be interpreted as "May you rank as marquis from generation to generation"; and a painting of two monkeys in a tree has the same signification.
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Rangers then had to contest a play-off with old local rivals Caerau Ely, at Ninian Park and won the game 3–0 in front of 1,300 spectators, to claim their place in the Welsh Football League for season 1997–98. In the Welsh League, Rangers spent the first three seasons in division three finishing 5th, 5th, and then runners up (drawing only 3 games and winning the rest) and in turn promotion. Division Two was a short stay of only one season finishing 3rd and again gaining promotion. Season 2001–02, Ely entered into the First Division and finished in eighth position, however, in the last few seasons Ely have finished 15th, and 14th twice.
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The introduction of the leagues in 1987 saw Rochford Hundred placed in the London and South East regional leagues. In 1992 the club their first ever league silverware, winning Eastern Counties 1 and gaining promotion into London 3 North East. Towards the end of the 1990s the club won the Essex Senior Cup in 1999, followed up by the London 3 North East league title in 2000, although the club was denied promotion due to RFU restructuring of the leagues. The new millennium saw the club denied promotion for the second year running, finishing second in the league but being outclassed by London 3 North West runners up Twickenham in the promotion playoff.
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Bremner played more than 100 games in all competitions for Millwall, helping them gain promotion to the Second Division as Third Division runners- up. At the beginning of the 1984–85 season he joined Reading; as the clubs were unable to agree on a transfer fee, the Football League tribunal valued his services at £35,000. In his second season at the club, he contributed to Reading winning the Third Division title, before joining Brighton & Hove Albion, where for the third time in four seasons he played his part in his club gaining promotion from the Third Division. He finished the season as the club's leading scorer, with 12 goals in all competitions.
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The Humberside Seahawks were founded in 1988 under the ownership of Humberside County Council and the management of Adrian Florence. Beginning life in the old Heineken League Division 2, Canadian player-coach Dale Lambert quickly led the fledgling Seahawks to glory, winning the Division 2 title (and promotion to Division 1) in their inaugural season. Just two seasons later, in 1990/91, the Seahawks lost just three games in winning the Division 1 title, which they followed up by winning their play-off group and gaining promotion to the Heineken League Premier Division after just three years in the league. In their first season in the top flight the Seahawks quickly made their mark.
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He was an integral part of the team which made an impressive start to the season as Wolves were at the top of the table for numerous months with Henry captaining them. He was in the starting 11 against Queens Park Rangers in which Wolves went on to win the game which resulted in them gaining promotion to the Premier League. On 3 May 2009, Henry and Craddock both lifted the Championship trophy at Molineux on the final day of the season after their 1–0 over Doncaster Rovers. Henry was an ever-present captain in the Wolves team in the 2009–10 season, his Premier League debut came against West Ham United on the opening day.
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Stoke's Icelandic board wanted the club to start mounting a serious attempt at gaining promotion to the Premier League and so decided a change in style was required with Boskamp replacing Tony Pulis. He brought in a number of foreign players which included Carl Hoefkens, Hannes Sigurðsson, Junior N'Galula and Martin Kolář as well as domestic based players, Marlon Broomes, Paul Gallagher, Mamady Sidibe, Peter Sweeney and Luke Chadwick. He also broke the club record transfer fee with a £950,000 signing of Standard Liège striker Sambégou Bangoura. However results were often poor and after a number of heavy home defeats to Watford, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Cardiff City, and supporters began asking questions.
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Captain Archibald Cochrane was a Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century, who served in the Napoleonic Wars. His most noticeable activity came early in his career as a midshipman aboard HMS Speedy, which was then captained by his brother, Commander Thomas Cochrane (known as Lord Cochrane). Aboard Speedy, Cochrane participated in the engagement and capture of the Spanish frigate Gamo, which was more than three times the size of the British ship. Although captured by the French shortly afterwards, Cochrane's career continued successfully and he was promoted to lieutenant in 1804, sailing to the East Indies on HMS Victor and rapidly gaining promotion to post captain in the frigate HMS Fox.
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This time they stayed for a longer spell in the Second Division, gaining promotion in the 1973–74 season as Victoria United, the league had also been expanded from six clubs, to eleven for a season. However, this was to be a yo-yo time for a club and they bounced between the two leagues during the decade, picking up the Second Division title for the third time in 1977–78. Victoria United were crowned champions of Gozo in 1978–79, just a year after they had won the Second Division. This was the most prestigious title won by the club, and the only time they have finished top in the whole of Gozo.
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K.A.S. Eupen were formed in 1945 from the merger of Jugend Eupen and FC Eupen 1920. They first reached the Belgian Pro League in the 2010–11 season In June 2012, the club was purchased by the government of Qatar and its Aspire Zone Foundation, who also own Paris Saint-Germain. Aspire Academy announced their intent use the club as a launching pad into European football for its academy graduates from Africa, South America and Asia. Eupen finished second in the 2015–16 Second Division, gaining promotion to the top flight of Belgian football for the second time in their history, staying up at the end of the season for the first time.
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There were no lengthy cup runs, as Vale exited the League Cup with an opening day defeat to Championship club Burnley, and were knocked out of the FA Cup at the Second Round with a loss away at League One side Sheffield United, before their progress in the Football League Trophy was halted by League Two rivals Bradford City. This allowed the "Valiants" to focus on gaining promotion, and their goal-scoring feats took them up to second place by 15 September, behind only defensive masters Gillingham. With the new owners in place, Adams could afford to sign experienced players in the January transfer window, and the team pushed on to establish themselves as the division's leaders.
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West Ham had barely scraped into the top six of the Championship the previous season before gaining promotion via the play-offs, so few gave the Hammers much hope of Premiership survival. However, West Ham surprised their naysayers to stand fourth at the end of October after 11 points from their opening six games. A run of mediocre form saw West Ham fall to tenth, before a run of five straight wins between January and February, including a 3–2 win at Arsenal, which saw the Hammers become the last side to beat Arsenal at Highbury, saw them rise to sixth. Alan Pardew won the Manager of the Month award for February.
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However, due to a career-threatening injury, he never played a single match for the Viola, and was subsequently loaned out twice, to Serie B clubs Spezia (from January to December 2007) and Mantova (from January to June 2008). In July 2008, Do Prado agreed to leave Fiorentina by mutual consent. In September 2008, he initially agreed a contract with Messina in the Serie D, but later renounced to join the Sicilian side and instead accepted an offer from Pro Patria of Lega Pro Prima Divisione. In the 2009 summer window, he joined newly promoted Serie B outfit Cesena and was part of the side that finished as runners-up, thus gaining promotion to Serie A.
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From 1959 to 1975, Lecce played 17 seasons in Serie C. They came extremely close to promotion several times during that period, finishing in second place three seasons in a row (1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74) before gaining promotion in the 1975–76 season. The same year as their promotion, Lecce tasted cup success, winning the Coppa Italia Serie C. In 1976, Lecce took part in the Anglo- Italian Cup, notching up a 4–0 victory against Scarborough.RSSSF In 1980, a scandal occurred which rocked Italian football, including Lecce under president Franco Jurlano. However, Jurlano was able to demonstrate his innocence and the scandal only lead to disqualification of player Claudius Merlo.
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After being promoted from Promozione Campania in 1969–70, they spent the entire decade of the 1970s in Serie D generally around mid table area, the closest they came to gaining promotion was a 4th-place finish in 1973–74. The start of the 1980s brought the club into turmoil, they were relegated in three successive seasons before becoming defunct in 1982. However, that season a team from the city of Naples called Internapoli moved to Pozzuoli because they were having problems with their home Stadio Arturo Collana and thus changed their name to S.C. Puteolana 1909. After just four seasons in Serie D and one in Promozione, the new club too was folded in 1986.
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The Football League play-offs for the 2010–11 season were held in May 2011. The Championship final took place at Wembley Stadium in London, but the League One and Two finals were held at Old Trafford in Manchester, due to a clash with the UEFA Champions League Final. The play-off semi-finals were played over two legs, contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Championship and League One and the 4th-, 5th-, 6th- and 7th-placed teams in the League Two table. The winners of the semi- finals went through to the finals, with the winner of the final gaining promotion for the following season.
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Mo Takaloo celebrates his goal which saves Maidstone from relegation at Folkestone InvictaMaidstone, who were now managed by Lloyd Hume and Alan Walker in a joint capacity, surprisingly managed to win the league at the first time of asking, gaining promotion to the Isthmian League Premier Division. However the overwhelming success on the pitch was overshadowed by little visible progress being made in the building of the stadium at James Whatman Way. Before the 2007–08 season had even begun Alan Walker was involved in a freak accident at a coaching course in Belfast which left him temporarily paralysed. Walker made a valiant recovery however, and was back walking and in management by the start of the league season.
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In the club's first ever season in which they had entered the Counties League Division, Newbridge Town finished 4th and in the same season won the Counties Cup. In the following seasons the club gained further success, winning Division 2 and gaining promotion to Division 1, quickly winning that League and moving into the Leinster Junior League where they played well known clubs including Cherry Orchard, Home Farm, and Wayside Celtic. Newbridge town moved relentlessly through the grades and into the Leinster Senior League winning the Senior Division in the 1998/99 season. Off the pitch the Newbridge Town had developed a Youth Project involved in the development of talented young players.
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The 2013–14 season will be long remembered by Wellman supporters, not for their league performance, but for the cup exploits of the side. In the Welsh Alliance League, Holywell would yet again find heartbreak in failing in their main aim of gaining promotion to the Cymru Alliance. They would finish the season in second place to local rivals and league champions Denbigh Town who were undefeated all season. However Holywell did manage to score over 100 league goals in the season for the first time in recent history, and the team's top scorer Sam Jones picked up the Welsh Alliance Division 1's top goalscorer award as well as the league's Player of the Year for the season.
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After a spell coaching the Bristol City youth team between 1974 and 1978, where he was part of the backroom staff that won promotion to the then English First Division, he began his management career in Denmark with Nørresundby managing the local side Norresundby, gaining promotion in his first season there. He returned to Scotland in 1980 when he was appointed manager of Dundee, winning promotion to the Scottish Premier Division with the club, again in his first season in charge. After several high-profile departures from the Dundee first team, Mackay eventually left the club in 1983. After a short time away from the game, Bobby Gould approached him to be his assistant at Coventry City.
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The following season saw them win their division again, gaining promotion to the Premier Division. After finishing fourth in 2003–04 the club were placed in the new Conference North. Alfreton's first few seasons in the Conference North saw them in lower mid-table, with 2004–05 marking their first appearance in the FA Cup first round since the 1970s, losing 2–0 to Macclesfield Town in a replay. In 2008–09 they finished third in the Conference North, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, in which they were defeated 5–4 on aggregate in the semi-finals by AFC Telford United, losing 2–0 away and winning 4–3 at home.
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When the board decided not to renew Atkinson's contract, several high-profile names were mentioned for the vacant manager's job, including Glenn Hoddle (ex-Swindon, Chelsea and England), Roy Evans (ex-Liverpool) and Brian Little (ex-Leicester and Aston Villa). The club's eventual choice was 33-year-old former England captain David Platt, whose brief spell as head coach of Italian Serie A side Sampdoria had just ended in relegation. Former England captain Platt was named as Nottingham Forest's player-manager in July 1999. He made several expensive signings during his two-year reign at the helm, but these acquisitions were unproductive and Forest never really looked like gaining promotion back to the Premiership, finishing only in mid-table.
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The team joined the second level of the Chilean professional league in 1966 and won the tournament a year later gaining promotion to the Primera División de Chile. In 1991 the team joined in representing Chile in the Copa Libertadores, they passed through the 1st round phase but lost in the round of sixteen against América de Cali. In 1993 the club was relegated after finishing 15th of 16 teams, but the club bounced straight back by winning the second division title in 1994. Concepción played their next big international tournament in 1999, they participated in the Copa CONMEBOL and made it all the way to the semifinals but lost against Talleres de Córdoba from Argentina.
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The 1988–89 Courage Area League South was the second full season of rugby union within the fourth tier of the English league system, currently known as National League 2 South, and counterpart to Courage Area League North (now known as National League 2 North). Lydney won the championship despite having an identical win/draw/lose record to Havant in second place, and finished top due to a superior points difference, gaining promotion to the 1989–90 National Division Three. Three teams were relegated; Ealing (to London Division 1), Stroud (to South West Division 1) and Sidcup (to London Division 1). Last season Sidcup finished second, and this season lost all ten matches.
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Robert came through the Newport Gwent Dragons Academy learning his trade with Ebbw Vale RFC and made his debut for the region in December 2007, coming off the bench away to Munster. He would go on to make a further 14 appearances for the Newport Gwent Dragons gaining Celtic League, LV Cup and four Heineken Cup experiences. Scoring a try in the Christmas period derby win over the Ospreys. In May 2009 Lewis joined London Welsh and made a total of 88 appearances in three seasons and in 2011/2012 he played a major role in London Welsh winning the English Championship, beating Cornish Pirates in the two leg final and gaining promotion to the Aviva Premiership.
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Along with fellow half-backs Reg Attwell and captain Alan Brown, full-backs Harry Mather and Arthur Woodruff and goalkeeper Jimmy Strong, Bray was part of the Burnley defence known as the "Iron Curtain". The team conceded only 29 league goals during the 1946–47 season, the second lowest ever, as they finished as Second Division runners-up to Manchester City, thereby gaining promotion to the First Division. Bray appeared in all but one of the side's matches during the campaign and also played nine matches in the FA Cup as Burnley reached the final of the competition for the first time since 1914. He was selected in the starting line-up for the final but could not prevent opponents Charlton Athletic achieving a 1–0 victory.
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The club was formed in 1952 through a merger of two local teams, Amical de Croix and Celtic de Croix, and played in the Nord district divisions of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Ligue. Between 2006 and 2009 the club won four successive promotions, from the top district division (1er Division) to the top division of the Nord-Pas-de Calais Ligue (Division d'Honneur, the sixth level of football in France). In 2011 the club won a league and cup double, finishing at the top of the Division d'Honneur, and winning the Nord Pas-de-Calais League Cup, gaining promotion to the Championnat de France Amateur 2 for the 2012–13 season. In November 2012, the club merged with another local club, Stade de Croix.
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Horst Dohlus now made his transfer to national politics, between 1950 and 1954 sitting as a member of the young country's National Legislative Assembly (Volkskammer), and at the same time gaining promotion with regard to his party responsibilities in the Saxon mining business. Between 1951 and 1952 he served as First Secretary of the Wismut section Party leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt (as Chemnitz was then known). The 1950s was a nervous time for the leaders of East Germany: directly after the rather more brutal downfall of Paul Merker, at the 23rd Central Committee Plenum in April 1955 Horst Dohlus received a reprimand from The Party for "behaviour damaging to the party and repeated violations of Party Morals" ("parteischädigenden Verhaltens u. fortgesetzter Verstöße gegen die Parteimoral").
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The team was one of the founding members of the 1. Spielklasse Herzogtum Braunschweig, at the time one of several first tier leagues in the German Empire. Eintracht Braunschweig II even finished three times as runners-up in the league (in 1905, 1906, and 1913), each time behind the club's first team.Horst Bläsig/Alex Leppert, Ein Roter Löwe auf der Brust - Die Geschichte von Eintracht Braunschweig (2010) , publisher: Die Werkstatt, page: 397 After World War II, the team initially played in the third tier Amateurliga Niedersachsen, gaining promotion to the highest football league in Lower Saxony, the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen (II), in 1954. Eintracht Amateure won the league in 1956 but, as a reserve side, could not gain promotion into the first tier Oberliga Nord.
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Lu Jianren played for his local football club Beijing FC's youth team before gaining promotion to the senior team in the 1979 league season. At Beijing he was part of the team that won the 1982 league title, which led to him receiving a call-up to the Chinese national team. He then played understudy to Yang Ning as China's second choice goalkeeper in the 1984 AFC Asian Cup, however as the tournament progressed the manager Zeng Xuelin, who Lu previously worked with at Beijing, decided to promote him to the team's first choice goalkeeper half way through the campaign. The move worked and China reached the final, however China lost to Saudi Arabia 2-0 and finished runners-up.
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2004/5 they beat Dartford Town away in FA Cup and repeated the success the following Season. In the 2004–05 season, they played in the Isthmian League Division Two and gained promotion in 2005/ to Division 1 South of Isthmian League but sadly got relegated in the first season. The following season as a result of the restructuring of non-league football they joined the Combined Counties Football League. In 2007/8 following the sacking of Steve & Andy Lunn due to the pair apparently taking the club in the wrong direction the club suffered relegation from the league's Premier Division in 2007/08, playing one season in Division One before gaining promotion back into the Premier division through the play-offs.
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However, due to off the field ground grading issues, rather than making the step up the club was relegated back to the Wearside League. It was a decision taken by the Northern League Management Committee and endorsed by the FA. Season 2013–14 saw the team back in the Wearside League and finish runners up to Stockton Town and with the ground issues solved the team again was promoted to the Northern League 2nd division for the season 2014–15. After finishing 6th in season 2014–15 the club finished runners up to South Shields in season 2015–16 thus gaining promotion to the Northern League Division 1 under the guidance of managerial duo Gary Pearson and Stuart Gooden (who is now in jail).
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The club is an affiliated member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Llanelli Scarlets Region. The Seasiders recently gained a double trophy haul, gaining promotion from Division 3 West to Division One West after successfully winning a promotion play off game against Division 3 East side Wattstown at the business end of the 2013–2014 season. The play off was held at Dunvant RFC and Tenby Utd ran out comfortable winners and felt that they had earned their promotion the hard way by coming runner up in the league campaign and having to go the extra mile by way of the one chance play off. The United also won the county cup (Pembrokeshire & District Knock Out Cup).
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South West 1 West (currently known as Tribute South West 1 West due to sponsorship) is an English, level six, rugby union league for clubs based in the south-west of England; mainly Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire and Somerset. Originally a single division known as South West 2, since 1996 the division has been split into two regional leagues - South West 1 West and South West 1 East. The champions are promoted to South West Premier (formerly National League 3 South West) and the runner-up plays the second team in South West 1 East, with the winning team gaining promotion. Relegated sides usually play in one of the three seventh-tier leagues — Western Counties North, Western Counties West or occasionally, Southern Counties South.
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Philip Sharp (born 5 April 1964) was an English Premier League assistant referee and one of only 10 match officials from the United Kingdom to have officiated in a FIFA World Cup Final. Sharp first played football for Livingstone School but became a referee via the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme in order to fulfil the Service in the Community component of the course. He gained his apprenticeship through the Hertfordshire County League before gaining promotion onto the Southern Football League middle from where he was promoted to Panel Referee for two seasons before being promoted as an Assistant Referee to the Football League and, finally, the Premier League. He was selected to run the line at the 1999 FA Cup Final.
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The 2011 Regional League Division 2 (also known as the AIS League for sponsorship reasons) was the 6th season of the Regional League Division 2, it had redirected from the division 2, since its establishment in 2006. The 77 clubs will be divided into 5 groups (regions). Regional League Championships 2011 was contested by the five regional league winners and runners up of the 3rd level championships of Thailand. The two best 3rd placed teams from the regional leagues also take part Twelve teams were split into two groups of A & B, with the top two teams from group A & B gaining promotion to the Thai 1st Division for the 2012 campaign, along with this, the two group winners would play off to determine the overall champions.
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At the end of the season Cambridge made it two successive promotions in a row, finishing league champions just 2 points ahead of runners up North Walsham (who actually beat them home and away) and gaining promotion to the 2006–07 National Division Two. North Walsham were unable to join Cambridge in National Division Two as they lost their promotion playoff at home to the 2005–06 National Division Three North runners up Nuneaton. At the other end of the table, Bracknell were the first side to be relegated, going down for the second year in a row with just two wins all season. They were followed by Reading who were more competitive but still two wins off the 12th placed team Old Patesians.
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The next six years, Fylkir played in Division Two, only once being close to gaining promotion. From 1984 to 1988, Fylkir roller-coasted between the Second and the Third Division and it was not until 1989 that Fylkir played its first season in Division One – the top league in Iceland at that time. The season was no success, Fylkir became ninth and was relegated, but the season is nevertheless an interesting one as three players – Kristinn Tómasson, Þórhallur Dan Jóhannsson and Finnur Kolbeinsson – who are now legends at the club, played their first season at a top level. The next time Fylkir earned a promotion to Division One was in 1993, but just as in 1989 the team became ninth and was relegated.
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The club was formed in 1950 as Old Wellingtonians by former students of Wellington Grammar School.Wellington Amateurs official website – History Accessed 26 July 2012 The name was later changed to the current one when Head Master of the school discovered that the club had started accepting players that were not former pupils. After 31 years in the Wellington League, the club joined the Shropshire County Football League Division One in 1981. In their inaugural season, Wellington won the league and cup double, gaining promotion to the Premier Division. They won the Premier Division in 1982–83 and 1988–89, and finished runners-up in 2005–06, allowing them to apply for membership of the West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two.
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Baron Samuel-François Lhéritier de Chézelles (; 6 August 1772 – 23 August 1829) was a French soldier who rose through the ranks during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, eventually gaining promotion to the military rank of Général de Division. While his initial career in the infantry branch and then General Staff during the French Revolutionary Wars was unremarkable, Lhéritier made a name for himself as a cavalry commander during the Napoleonic Wars. A gallant officer, he led from the front and, as a result, collected a number of serious battle wounds. He was created a Baron of the Empire and a Commander of the Legion of Honour and his name is inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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Soon after his move to Ninian Park, manager Cyril Spiers moved him to centre forward following the arrival of Mike Tiddy, where his devastating turn of speed immediately produced instant rewards, with 14 goals coming in the 1950–51 season as Cardiff finished in third place in the Second Division. The following season Cardiff went one better finishing in second place, thus gaining promotion to the First Division. During Cardiff's promotion season Grant was top scorer with 26 goals, the first 19 of which were at home. Shortly after Cardiff secured their place in the top flight, Grant's superb form earned him a call up to the England 'B' team for a match against their French equivalents on 22 May 1952.
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Kiselyov first distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars, serving as Count Miloradovich's aide-de-camp in the Battle of Borodino, marching with the Russian army all the way to Paris and gaining promotion to Alexander I's aide- de-camp at the close of the campaign. Five years later, Kiselyov was appointed Chief of Staff of the Second Army, stationed in Tulchyn, Podolia. It was there that he first tried to implement his reforms, including the mitigation and condemnation of corporal punishment, which aroused the animosity of the powerful War Minister, Count Arakcheyev. Pavel Pestel and other Decembrists who formed the southern revolutionary league served under Kiselyov and were supported by him, although the extent to which their collusion was encouraged by Kiselyov's liberalism has been disputed.
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The Football League play-offs for the 1989–90 season were held in May 1990, with the finals taking place at Wembley Stadium. The play-off semi-finals were also played over two legs and were contested by the teams who finished in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place in the Football League Second Division, the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th placed teams in the Football League Third Division and the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place teams in the Football League Fourth Division table. The winners of the semi-finals progressed through to the finals, with the winner of these matches gaining promotion for the following season. The 1990 play- offs finals were the first to be played at Wembley Stadium.
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After relegation from Division Two, the Iron spent the next four years bouncing around in the Third Division. Freddie Goodwin left the club during the 1967–68 season, however his replacement Ron Ashman was unable to save the club from relegation to Division Four at the end of the season. A slight resurgence occurred in the very early 70s, with the Iron first defeating top-flight Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup during January 1970, and then gaining promotion back to the Third Division in 1972. It was during this short period that a young Kevin Keegan was discovered and developed by Ashman before being sold to Liverpool in 1971 for £35,000, having racked up 124 appearances and 18 goals for Scunthorpe.
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In 1989 Tamworth, managed by Graham Smith, reached the final of the FA Vase for the first time, one year after gaining promotion back to the Southern League. The final against Sudbury Town was played at Wembley Stadium and finished in a 1–1 draw with Martin Devaney scoring for Tamworth, meaning that the winner would have to be decided by a replay. The replay was played at London Road, the home of Peterborough United, and Tamworth won 3–0 with two goals from Mark Stanton and one from Ian Moores to lift the FA Vase for the first time. In 1997 The Lambs won the championship of the Southern League Midland Division and gained promotion to the Premier Division.
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Chester City Football Club was an association football team from Chester, England that played in a variety of leagues between 1885 and 2010. The club played its home games at Sealand Road from 1906 to 1991 and moved to the Deva Stadium in 1992 after playing two seasons of home games at Macclesfield Town's Moss Rose. Chester held Cross-border derby matches with Welsh club Wrexham. The club was founded in August 1885 and entered The Combination five years later. They won the Combination title in 1908–09 and were admitted into the Lancashire Combination in 1910, gaining promotion out of Division Two in 1910–11. They entered the Cheshire County League in 1919 and were crowned champions three times: 1921–22, 1925–26 and 1926–27.
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Being one of the founding sections, the football team rose through the ranks of the Romanian league system before eventually gaining promotion to the Divizia A at the end of the 1986–87 season. However, competition there proved to be too strong and relegation back to Divizia B was the logical consequence, a league in which the team played for the rest of its existence. Before the 1993–94 season, the name was changed to Bucovina Suceava, after the name of the region Bukovina. Bucovina at the end of the 1996–97 season, merged with Foresta Fălticeni, creating the most successful team in the history of Suceava County, the new team being called Foresta Suceava, with the home ground in Suceava, on Stadionul Areni.
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125–126 Eaton was appointed CO of the base, gaining promotion to temporary group captain in September. His squadrons were employed in escort, maritime reconnaissance, and coastal patrol duties, the overworked aircraft having to be sent to RAAF Station Richmond, New South Wales, after every 240 hours flying time—with a consequent three-week loss from Darwin's strength—as deep maintenance was not yet possible in the Northern Territory. Soon after the establishment of Headquarters RAAF Station Darwin, Minister for Air James Fairbairn visited the base. Piloting his own light plane, he was greeted by four Wirraways that proceeded to escort him into landing; the Minister subsequently complimented Eaton on the "keen-ness and efficiency of all ranks", particularly considering the challenging environment.
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After the havoc caused by the previous seasons foot-and-mouth crisis, this year's competition was much more straightforward with all fixtures being fulfilled. Doncaster were easily the top side in the competition, strolling to the league title with almost a perfect record (they lost just the one game) and gaining promotion to the 2002–03 National Division Two. As league runners up, Dudley Kingswinford had a tough playoff game away against 2001–02 National Division Three South runners up Launceston who were ultimately too strong for the Midlands side who lost 26 - 0 and had to spend another season in National Division Three North. Unlike 2000-01 the relegation process was much more straightforward expect that four teams would go down instead of the usual two.
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Green joined Wigan Athletic for £300,000 in June 1997, scoring on his début in a 5–2 win over Wycombe Wanderers on the opening day of the 1997/98 season. Now a regular fixture at right-back, he was part of the side that would win the Football League Trophy at Wembley in 1999 as an unused substitute. A virtual ever present in the first half of Wigan's First Division Championship winning season, he would be allowed to leave the club for Wrexham in 2003 where Green would also play a big part in gaining promotion with Wrexham to Division one. Green's second spell at Wrexham in 2005 would see him gain another medal in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy at the Millennium Stadium.
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Having missed the first season of the new FA Premier League following relegation in 1991-92, West Ham made a swift return to the top flight by gaining promotion to Division One as runners-up under manager Billy Bonds. Promotion was clinched on the last day of the season with a 2-0 home win against Cambridge United with goals from David Speedie and Clive Allen. Changes to the West Ham side for this successful campaign included Clive Allen (signed near the end of the previous campaign) featuring as Trevor Morley's strike partner following the departure of Frank McAvennie (with the previous season's top scorer Mike Small making nine goalless appearances before leaving the club), and the midfield featured two new players; Peter Butler and Mark Robson.
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Since 1988 to the present, Sydney City have competed in the NSW State League North Conference in the NSW State Leagues. Recently, they have moved up through the New South Wales football ranks and have been promoted rapidly. In 2014 Hakoah were in NSW's 3rd division (State League 1) and won the Premiership and Grand Final Championship trophies which culminated in winning the Club Championship crown and gaining promotion to the (national premier leagues NSW2), eventually almost replicating that season in 2015, once again winning promotion, this time into the top tier in NSW. In 2012 they also won the double as State League Division Two Premiers and Grand Final Champions under the Hakoah FC banner playing out of Hensley Athletic Field.
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The Hampton Rovers Amateur Football Club was founded in 1929 and is located in Melbourne, Australia. The club competes in the Victorian Amateur Football Association and the South Metro Junior Football League and has both men's and women's teams. Hampton Rovers has won a total of over 60 premierships in its existence, which includes nine senior VAFA premierships counting an A Section flag in 1951. The club had a total of 33 teams in 2019 including five senior teams, 28 junior teams and an Auskick program, with over 800 players. The Rovers last won consecutive senior Premierships in 2013 and 2014, gaining promotion to Premier B Section for the 2015 VAFA season, however has since been relegated and will compete in Premier C in 2020.
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Though the club finished fourth during the 1991–92 season, Napoli gradually went into decline after that season, both financially and on the field. Players such as Gianfranco Zola, Daniel Fonseca, Ciro Ferrara and Careca had all departed by 1994. Nonetheless, Napoli qualified for the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, reaching the third round and in 1996–97, Napoli appeared at the Coppa Italia final, but lost 3–1 to Vicenza. Napoli's league form had dropped lower, and relegation to Serie B came at the end of 1997–98 when they won only two matches all season. The club returned to Serie A after gaining promotion in the 1999–2000 season, though after a closely contested relegation battle, they were relegated immediately back down the following season.
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After last season's play-off heartbreak, Leicester City ended their decade-long exile from the Premier League by gaining promotion as champions, topping the division on Boxing Day and never surrendering their lead. Joining them were Burnley, who many had tipped for relegation, but ultimately achieved automatic promotion in Sean Dyche's first full season in charge of the Lancashire club. The 41-goal strike partnership of exciting duo Danny Ings and Sam Vokes was enough to return the Clarets to the top-flight after four years. Queens Park Rangers had to settle for the play-offs after topping the table for much of the first half of the season, scraping past Derby County in the final at Wembley to make an instant return to the Premier League.
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Peterlee Pumas was formed in association with Durham Rugby League Service Area and the Rugby League Development Program. They started training in summer of 2002 and the open age men's team played friendlies in the first year before joining the North East division of the Rugby League Conference in 2004 getting through to the North East final and gaining promotion to the new North Premier. The club achieved club mark status in 2004 and was presented with the award at half time at the Tri Nations Game between Great Britain and New Zealand. In 2005 the Pumas were the only team from the North East of England to beat Cumbrian opposition, however, the following year they dropped down and rejoined the North East division.
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Halifax would finish as runaway champions of the league, ending up 14 points clear of nearest rivals Macclesfield (even with a cancelled game against Blaydon) and gaining promotion to the 2005–06 National Division Two. Runners up Macclesfield would fail to join Halifax as they lost their playoff game away to 2004–05 National Division Three South runners up Redruth in the north-south playoff in front of a huge crowd of 4,000 at the Recreation Ground. Although Halifax won the league with plenty to spare the rest of the division was fairly closely contested with only 3 wins separating 4th placed Fylde from 12th placed Rugby Lions. In terms of relegation newly promoted Bedford Athletic went down first followed by Dudley Kingswinford.
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Alexander-Sinclair entered the Royal Navy as cadet in 1879 at the age of 14, becoming a midshipman 2½ years later. Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair was first educated at Twyford SchoolNotable OTs by Twyford Society at twyfordschool.com, archived by archive.org, accessed February 2019 He was made lieutenant in 1890,Alastair Wilson & Joseph F. Callo Who's Who in Naval History: From 1550 to the Present (Routledge, 2004) and served as flag- lieutenant to both Admiral Tracey and Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, gaining promotion to commander in January 1901. He then had two sea commands, the destroyer from February 1902 serving at the Mediterranean Station from May that year; and after paying her off in January 1904, the despatch vessel until 1905.
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After a good career spent playing point guard in his native Porto San Giorgio, Pancotto began coaching in 1982 at the age of 27, taking the bench of his hometown team, U.S. Sangiorgese, at only three matches from the end of the season, gaining promotion to Serie B. In 1984 Sangiorgese, always guided by Pancotto, was promoted to A2, the Italian Second Division. The coach remained in Porto San Giorgio until 1986, coaching two seasons in A2 avoiding in both cases the relegation. In the 1986-1987 season he arrived in Reggio Emilia. Then, he coached for two years Forlì, for a year Dinamo Sassari and for three years Olimpia Pistoia: in Tuscany he obtained the first of three promotion to A1, the top Italian League.
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Baroka F.C. is a South African football club from Ga-Mphahlele near Polokwane, Limpopo that plays in the DStv Premiership. The club rose to prominence in 2011 by reaching the semi-final of the 2011 Nedbank Cup, defeating several Premier Soccer League sides like Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs along the way. They also won the 2010–11 Vodacom League Limpopo division, but subsequently fell short at the playoff stage, to win the aspired promotion for National First Division. In their debut season in the National First Division they came close to gaining promotion play-offs to the Premier Soccer League but fell short on goal difference on the last day with a 1–1 draw against Thanda Royal Zulu.
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In July 2005, Konaté signed his first professional contract with then Championnat National side Chamois Niortais. He was mostly a bit-part player during his first season with the club. He made his début for the Deux- Sèvres club on 4 March 2006, coming on as a substitute replacing Vincent Durand in the 3–1 victory over AS Cherbourg Football, and went on to make two starts in the league, as well as four further substitute appearances, as the team comfortably finished top of the division, gaining promotion to Ligue 2. In his second season, Konaté became an integral part of the Chamois Niortais first-team thanks to his ability to play in a number of positions, his pace, and his accurate corner kicks.
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Qiqihar Beilang F.C. was established in 2008. In 2013, Qiqihar Zhongjian Commercial Concrete Limited Co. fully took over the club, which was renamed Qiqihar Zhongjian F.C.扛起黑龙江中乙联赛旗帜的新旗手 齐齐哈尔中建商砼 at sohu.com 2017-11-14 Retrieved 2018-09-12 On 22 November 2017, after finishing 3rd in 2017 China Amateur Football League after beating Zhaoqing Hengtai and gaining promotion to China League Two, the club changed their name to Qiqihar Hecheng Yiyang F.C.俱乐部更名为齐齐哈尔鹤城翼阳并更换新版队徽 at sohu.com 2017-12-07 Retrieved 2018-09-12 However, they were denied promotion.
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The Hackney Ladies side were formed in 2010 and soon joined the RFU women's league, gaining promotion in 2013. They continue to expand rapidly and have increased their membership dramatically over the past few years. Following a further league championship for the 1st XV in 2014, the club enjoyed a historic season in 2016/17 with the 1st XV going the entire season unbeaten and dropping just one bonus point alongside the 2nd XV becoming league champions and the 3rd XV winning the cup. Hackney RFC now uses the Spring Hill Recreation Ground changing rooms as its base following its reopening in 2011, though it lost the use of The Swan Public house when the owners sold the premises to a local synagogue.
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John Halls (born 14 February 1982) is a Model and former English footballer. Halls began his career with Arsenal making three appearances in the League Cup for the "Gunners" before spending time out on loan at Colchester United, Belgian club Beveren and Stoke City. He joined Stoke on a permanent basis in December 2003 and became a regular in the side. He left for Reading in January after rejecting a new contract with Stoke but he struggled to force his way into a Reading side who were well on their way to gaining promotion to the Premier League and despite spending three season at the Madjeski Stadium Halls managed just eight appearances and spent time on loan at Preston North End, Crystal Palace and Sheffield United.
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Chris Broad and Tim Robinson continued the club's long tradition of batting excellence into the England team but for some years the club struggled to repeat those achievements, although they did claim a Benson & Hedges Cup in 1989 and a Sunday League title in 1991 under Robinson's captaincy. Former Warwickshire off spinner Eddie Hemmings made a significant contribution while local seam bowler Kevin Cooper was a consistent wicket taker. The following decade was one of underachievement, but in 2004, Nottinghamshire enjoyed a highly successful season, gaining promotion to both the Frizzell County Championship Division One, after winning Division Two, and also Totesport Division One. In 2005, Nottinghamshire won their first County Championship title since 1987, New Zealand's Stephen Fleming captaining the team to victory.
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They were formed in 1947 and ten years after formation they joined the Leicestershire Senior League Division Two and found immediate success, gaining promotion in their debut season and winning the Division One championship in the following two seasons. They remained in that division, apart from a single season (1971–72) in Division Two, winning the top flight, now renamed the Premier Division, twice more – 1986–87 and 1988–89. They then joined the Midland Combination Premier Division, staying there for five seasons until they became a founding member of the Midland Alliance where they remained until resigning from the league in January 2002. Later that year they joined the Leicestershire Senior League and were promoted as runners-up into the Premier Division.
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Lieutenant Colonel Ewan Murray Robson (7 March 1906 – 26 August 1974) was an Australian lawyer, soldier and a member of the New south Wales Parliament for over twenty years. Known for most of his life as Murray Robson, he was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College and the University of Sydney, where he gained degrees in arts and law. After working several years as a Solicitor, Robson stood for, and was elected to, parliament on 29 August 1936 at a by- election for the seat of Vaucluse. He served many years on the backbenches, he enlisted in the Second World War and served with distinction during the war, gaining promotion to lieutenant colonel and receiving the Distinguished Service Order for his service.
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China League 1997 at rsssf.com 21 Jun 2003 Retrieved 2013-11-22 After gaining promotion to the second tier Chengdu Wuniu started the 1998 campaign well losing only two of their first nine matches in the higher division however in round 10 they were well beaten 8–0 away to Liaoning Tianlun. Their best win came in their penultimate match of the season when they beat Jiangsu Jiajia 4–1 and the team ended the season mid-table in eighth out of 12.China League 1998 at rsssf.com 16 Jul 2003 Retrieved 2013-11-22 Chengdu's second year in Jia B once again started well with the team losing just 1 of their first 13th games before succumbing to Beijing Kuanli away 4–0.
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The team last won the Ulster Senior Championship in 1994, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1994 and the National League in 1983. With just one loss in six appearances in All Ireland finals, Down have got a reputation for rising to the big occasion. Kitted out in their distinctive red and black, their massive fan base has been responsible for some of the largest match attendances in GAA history. Although in the last twenty years they have been going through a very barren patch at senior level, despite various successes at underage level, in 2010 Down showed signs of improving by gaining promotion to the National Football League Division One and reaching the All Ireland Senior Football final - narrowly losing by 1 point to Cork.
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The Group B tournament began on 1 March 2004 in Elektrėnai and Kaunas, Lithuania. Croatia, Estonia and Lithuania all returned to compete in the Division II tournament after missing promotion to Division I at the previous years World Championship. Great Britain entered the Division II competition after being relegated from Division I and Australia entered the tournament after gaining promotion from Division III at the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Serbia and Montenegro men's national under-18 ice hockey team made their debut at the World Championships after replacing the Yugoslavia men's national under-18 ice hockey team, the change in team coinciding with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia being reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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The club was formed in 1988 as Wealden Football Club. They joined the Sussex County League Division Three in 1998 and finished runners-up in 1999–2000, gaining promotion to Division Two. The club entered the FA Vase for the first time in 2006–07 and reached the first round. In 2010 they were renamed A.F.C. Uckfield and went on to win Division Two in 2010–11, earning promotion to Division One. In July 2014 they merged with Uckfield Town to form A.F.C. Uckfield Town; the new club adopted Uckfield Town's black and red colours for their home kit and A.F.C. Uckfield's sky blue and navy blue as the away kit,Uckfield’s top football clubs merge Uckfield News, 31 July 2014 and played at the Oaks.
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Kalum King is a Gaelic football player from County Down. He plays for the Down senior inter-county football team and with his local club, Bryansford. Kalum has played for the county for six seasons which began in 2004 where he played a key part in Down's promotion run in the national league that year and played for Down in 2005 as well. Following these initial two seasons Kalum took a break from the sport to concentrate on his studies at Queens University. He restarted his county career in 2010 under the management of James McCartan. The 2010 season proved to be a strong season for Kalum in that he started every game that year, gaining promotion from Division 2 and performing well during the championship run.
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The 1954–55 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 52nd in the Football League and their 24th in the Second Division. They finished top of the 22-team division on goal average, thus winning the Second Division title for the fourth time and gaining promotion to the First Division for 1955–56. They entered the 1954–55 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost to Manchester City in the sixth round (quarter-final). Bob Brocklebank and chief scout Walter Taylor laid the foundations for the club's successes of the 1950s, introducing future England internationals Trevor Smith and Jeff Hall to the side, and bringing in the likes of Peter Murphy, Eddy Brown, Roy Warhurst and Alex Govan.
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The 1947–48 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 45th in the Football League and their 19th in the Second Division. They reached first place in the 22-team division after the match played on 6 December and retained that position for the remainder of the season, winning the Second Division title for the third time and gaining promotion to the First Division for 1948–49, from which they had been relegated at the end of the last completed pre-war season. They entered the 1947–48 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost to Notts County in that round. Twenty-four players made at least one appearance in nationally organised competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers.
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Guangzhou's new sponsors Geely immediately pulled their funding from the team to distance themselves from the bad publicity.30年合同八个月终止 广州吉利无奈退出到底为哪般 at Sports.sina.com.cn. 2001-12-15. Retrieved 2013-07-10 The club went through a tough transitional period until the Sunray Cave Group took over the club in 2004 and started to invest money in hopes of pushing for promotion.日之泉1元承接俱乐部70%股权 广州足球转让内幕 at Sports.sina.com.cn. 2004-01-20. Retrieved 2013-07-10 When the Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals group took over the club in 2006, they were able to realize the ambition of gaining promotion.
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In May 2009, 1. FC Union Berlin won the 3. Liga, gaining promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. On 8 July 2009, Union and Hertha played in a friendly at the Stadion An der Alten Försterei to celebrate the re-opening of the stadium following a season-long renovation period that saw 2,000 volunteers contribute to the building of the stadium. Hertha won the tie 5–3, in a game where a sense of a rivalry was beginning to develop. Hertha BSC supporter and radio commentator Manfred Sangel recalled “The stadium announcer kept having a go at us and at one of our players.” 1. FC Union Berlin president Dirk Zingler subsequently described the friendship between Hertha and Union as “the love for the mysterious mistress started to crumble“ following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The 2010 Regional League Division 2 (also known as the AIS Regional League Division 2 for sponsorship reasons) was contested by the five regional league winners and runners up of the 3rd level championships of Thailand. The two best 3rd placed teams from the regional leagues also take part Twelve teams were split into two groups of A & B, with the top two teams from group A & B gaining promotion to the Thai 1st Division for the 2011 campaign, along with this, the two group winners would play off to determine the overall champions. The teams finishing in 3rd and 4th position would enter another round of playoffs with the bottom four sides of the Thai Division 1 League to determine if they would play in the 1st Division for the 2011 campaign.
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The following season saw United battle with rivals Leeds United for the top spot all season, with Leeds only becoming Champions on the final day. They were the subject of a BBC2 documentary "United", shown over a 6-week period towards the end of the 1989–90 season, with the fortunes of the club being played out in front of an audience of millions. The BBC got their fairytale ending – United gaining promotion on a glorious day at Leicester, winning 5–2 with goals from Paul Wood, Brian Deane, Wilf Rostron, and 2 from Tony Agana. This season also saw the rise of the chant "Ooh Ah Bob Booker" in adulation of 32-year-old Bob Booker, signed by Bassett from Brentford in 1989 but soon a hero to fans of the club.
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In March 1922, McCann began studying law at the University of Adelaide. He was elected president of the state branch of the RSSILA in 1924. McCann was an early advocate for the building of the National War Memorial in Adelaide, defended the status of Anzac Day as a public holiday against protests from the retail sector due to reduced shopping hours, and represented the interests of soldier settlers. He was admitted to the Bar on 25 July 1925, and went into partnership with Arthur Blackburn, forming the law firm Blackburn and McCann. On 19 May 1927, he transferred from the Reserve of Officers List to the part-time 10th Battalion, and on 1 July was transferred to the part-time 43rd Battalion as its commanding officer, gaining promotion to lieutenant colonel on 1 December.
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The club's first season of exile was at Forest Green Rovers New Lawn Stadium, despite the loss of a stadium and revenue stream the club finished a creditable 6th in the league, just outside the Playoffs. The club's second season of exile at Cirencester Town proved to be one of the greatest in the history of the club. The club finished 3rd in the Southern Premier League thus qualifying for the Playoffs. In the Southern League Playoff semi-final Cambridge City were beaten 3–1 at the Corinium Stadium. They went on to play Farnborough in the final at Cherrywood Road and won 1–0 with Matt Rose scoring the crucial goal, ending a 70-year continuous association with the Southern Football League, and gaining promotion to Conference Football for the first time.
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1987 — Selected, with two other Hertfordshire clubs, to form part of London League Division 2 1996 — Won London NW Division 3 gaining promotion to London League Division 2 North 1998 — Won the Herts. President's Cup 2001 — Won the County Sevens and were runners up in the Herts. President's Cup 2003 — Promotion to London League Division One 2005 — Reached their then highest-ever league position (5th place in Powergen London One) 2009 — Won the Herts County 7s, runners up in the Herts County Cup Final. OA Colts reach both National Cup & Herts County Cup Finals and finish as Runners Up. 2010 — OAs gain promotion to National League 2 South from National League 3 South East with a playoff win vs Old Patesians R.F.C.. Old Albanian Saints gain promotion to RFUW Premiership.
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Upon gaining promotion to the Third Division in 1964 United immediately won the Third Division Championship the following year. In the period which followed Carlisle enjoyed their greatest success outside of cup competitions. Over twelve years the club cemented themselves as a solid Second Division (Then 2nd Tier in English football) side. Within that period Carlisle finished 7 out of 11 seasons in the top half of the table including 3rd in 66/67, 4th in 70/71 and a 3rd in 73/74 which saw them promoted to the top tier of English football. The end of the 71/72 season also saw Carlisle play their only European competition in the club's history, the Anglo-Italian Cup, and in June 1972 they beat A.S. Roma 3–2 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
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Average attendances Between 1972 and 1977, during the club's rise to the Second Division, home attendances averaged almost 8,000 per game. The support fell during the 1980s with the average home attendance under 3,000, the exception being the 1984–85 season when the club finished fifth. It was not until the latter Conference years that attendances improved, with the 2003–04 season seeing the average home attendance rise to 3,704. The following season saw the figure drop to just over 3,000 while in the 2005–06 season, despite the club successfully gaining promotion, the figure was 2,791. For the 2006–07 season the club had an average home league attendance of 3,327. With the exception of 2003–04, this is the highest average attendance since the 1984–85 season (3,881).
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He joined Stockport County in August 2000, enjoying a successful spell there and being named man of the match in many of the games he played. Dibble signed for Wrexham in May 2002, and despite suffering injury problems in his time in North Wales, he was a major part in Wrexham gaining promotion back to Division Two at the first time of asking in 2002–03. In March 2004 he broke his arm in a 6–1 defeat at Peterborough and missed the remainder of the season, while in September of the following season he was out for three months after severing tendons in his finger. He suffered a further injury later in the season when a torn thigh muscle ruled him out for the rest of the campaign.
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During this time the club also produced two England international cups in the Lawson brothers. Following World War II the club would have another period of success in the 1950s and early 1960s before sliding into decline, and by the advent of the leagues in 1987, Workington were ranked in the lower levels of the English rugby union system. Although they won promotion in 1988 they did little until the end of the 1990s, when over a period of three seasons they forced their way up the leagues, gaining promotion from the old North West 3 in 1999, winning North West 2 in 2000 and then finally North Lancashire/Cumbria in 2001, to reach North 1 West, which at tier 7 is the highest level Workington had reached in its history.
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Promotion to the rank of sergeant and beyond is achieved by way of a "merit-based" promotion system, whereby officers undertake a series of "pre- qualification assessments" and are placed on a ranked list before gaining promotion. Officers who qualify for a promotion list are given an eligibility mark and are ranked according to order of merit from the highest mark to the lowest. This means that the highest-ranked member on the promotions list will be considered first for the rank and position concerned. Members seeking placement on a promotion list must have spent the requisite time at the rank below, which is at least two years, and must have successfully completed the relevant pre-qualifying assessment examinations, an applicant evaluation and must meet the eligibility program.
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Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship and crew work up a routine and gain experience. Bennett, the first lieutenant, a mean and shirking disciplinarian with a penchant for bullying and canned sausages ("snorkers"), leaves the ship ostensibly for health reasons, and the junior officers are able to mature, with Lockhart gaining promotion to first lieutenant. The crew cross the Atlantic many times on escort duty in all kinds of weather, often encountering fierce storms in one of the smallest ships built to protect Allied convoys. The men endure the ship's constant rolling and pitching in the huge waves, freezing cold, the strain of maintaining station on the convoy on pitch-black nights and the fear that at any second a torpedo from a German U-boat could blow them to oblivion.
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It was quite a turn around in Nottingham's case as the club had gone from just escaping relegation the previous season to gaining promotion as the league's runner up. At the other end of the table, promoted Lydney finished bottom with easily the worst record of just two wins and a draw from their twenty-six games. Joining them in the second relegation spot were Rugby Lions who went down on the last day of the season by losing heavily to champions Sedgley Park whilst relegation rivals Rosslyn Park stayed up by virtue of their win against Newbury Blues. Lydney would go into the 2004–05 National Division Three South while Rugby Lions dropped to the 2004–05 National Division Three North in what would be the Lions second successive relegation.
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According to Holley & Chalk "his well placed centres from varying angles were a strong feature of his repertoire" In 1920 Southampton, along with most Southern League clubs, joined the new Football League Third Division and Foxall was ever-present as Saints finished their inaugural season in the Football League second in the table, missing out on the only available promotion place. At the end of the season, he provoked controversy when he signed a contract with Aston Villa, although he was still registered with Southampton. He was ordered by the Football Association to re-join Southampton and he continued to give good service until he was transferred to Birmingham in March 1922. At the time Southampton were leading the Third Division South table and their fans were confident of gaining promotion.
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In 2015, Team Taranaki secured the Federation league title and was declared Champions after dominating the competition, but was unsuccessful in gaining promotion to the Central League, narrowly losing to the Wellington Phoenix Reserve team over a two leg play-off series. In 2016, Team Taranaki secured the Federation League title for a second successive season and secured promotion to the Central League with a dramatic victory over Waterside Karori. Played over two legs (home and away), Team Taranaki found themselves 1-0 down following their home game in New Plymouth, but overturned the deficit in the away game to win 2-1 on the day (2-2 on aggregate). In 2017 Team Taranaki competed in the prestigious Central Premier League competition against some of the best club teams in New Zealand.
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After gaining promotion to the Championship with Doncaster Rovers, Sullivan turned down the offer of extending his playing career at the club as well as an Ambassadorial role in favour of returning to former club Leeds United as Academy Goalkeeper Coach on 16 July. With an injury to Leeds substitute goalkeeper Jamie Ashdown, Sullivan revealed he had not officially retired from playing and would be willing to register himself as a player for the 2013/14 season. In the summer of 2014, Sullivan became the First Team Goalkeeping Coach for the 2014–15 season, under Head Coaches Dave Hockaday, Darko Milanic and Neil Redfearn. For the start of the 2015–16 season under new Leeds Head Coach Uwe Rösler, Sullivan was to revert to his original role as the Leeds United Academy Goalkeeper Coach.
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In March 2016, McAusland signed a two-year deal with Icelandic side Keflavík. His first start for the side came a few days after signing, in an Icelandic League Cup match against Valur, with his first league start coming in a 1–1 draw with HK. During the 2016 season, McAusland played in all but one of his club's 22 league matches, helping Keflavík finish the league in third position. At their end of season closing reception, McAusland was voted Keflavík player of the year for the 2016 season, and in July 2017, his contract with the club was extended until the end of the 2019 season. After gaining promotion to the top tier, McAusland was included in the Inkasso-deildin team of the year, receiving 20 out of a possible 22 votes.
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The Reserves finished the season as League champions, gaining promotion to the South West League, Division One. The following season saw the team hit the headlines following a 21–0 victory over Reading Town in the August. This inspired them to race to the top of the league with a 9–1 win over Cullompton, a hard fought victory at Forest green and a 2–2 draw at Havant & Waterlooville. The season was disrupted by poor weather for almost four months, but this allowed the team to concentrate on the FA Cup, with victories over Saltash United, Forest Green Rovers and Newquay taking them to an exciting fourth round tie with Norwich City, a game that saw them come out 3–0 winners, setting up a tie with Nottingham Forest.
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Abdennour Chérif El- Ouazzani began his career as a youngster at MC Oran, where he was coached by his older brother, the former Algerian international Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani, whom he names as his favourite player. He made his senior debut at the age of 18, playing a quarter of an hour as a substitute in a 1–0 win in the Algerian Cup against USM Alger. JS Kabylie, then Algerian First Division champions, attempted to sign Cherif El Ouazzani in the January 2009 transfer window, but his club refused to sell, considering the player to be a key part of their promotion drive. His performances during the 2008–09 season alongside Abdelmadjid Benatia in defensive midfield made a significant contribution to his club gaining promotion back to the first division.
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On 1 November 1938 he was promoted to the rank of Konteradmiral and moved to a staff post in Berlin at the Oberkommando der Marine, serving as Chef des Marinewehramtes ("Chief of the Naval Defence Office") until August 1942, gaining promotion to Vizeadmiral on 1 January 1941, and also serving as Chef des Allgemeinen Marinehauptamtes ("Chief of General Navy Headquarters") between November 1939 and April 1944. On 1 March 1944 he was promoted to the rank of Generaladmiral and on 1 May was appointed Chef der Kriegsmarinewehr ("Chief of the Navy"). Following the end of World War II, and the suicide of the Commander-in-Chief Hans-Georg von Friedeburg on 23 May 1945, Warzecha assumed the duties of the Commander-in-Chief under Allied control, and supervised the Kriegsmarines dissolution until 22 July 1945.
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Maccabi Or-Akiva Acquitted of Charges of Match-fixing Ma'ariv, 3 August 1984m Historical Jewish Press In 1996, the club relegated to Liga Bet and a second relegation followed in 1998, meaning the club now played in bottom tier Liga Gimel, which lasted until winning its Liga Gimel division, gaining promotion to Liga Bet. For the following 8, the club played mostly in Liga Bet except for one season in which it played in Liga Gimel. In 2011–12 the club finished bottom in Liga Bet and relegated to Liga Gimel, in which the club once again finished bottom.A Last Place in Liga Gimel Doesn't Fit Or Akiva Michael Weissermann, 23 June 2013, DoublePass Over the summer, the club was closed by city officials and was replaced by a new club, Hapoel Ironi Or Akiva.
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Founded in 1969 as an amateur works team for Lloyds Finance, they initially competed as Lloyds & Scottish prior to renaming themselves as Lothian Thistle. The club originally competed in the Lothian amateur league before a successful spell in the Caledonian Amateur Football League. They then moved up to senior status when they joined the East of Scotland Football League in 1995, gaining promotion to the Premier Division two years later in 1997. The club is linked with the youth football club Hutchison Vale, and changed their name to Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale before the start of the 2011–12 season to reflect this. LTHV won the East of Scotland Premier Division title for the first time in the 2013–14 season, repeating this success in the 2014–15 season.
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The 2016–17 National League 1, known for sponsorship reasons as the SSE National League 1 was the eighth season of the third tier of the English rugby union system, since the professionalised format of the second tier RFU Championship was introduced; and was the 30th season since league rugby began in 1987. Hartpury College were crowned the champions on 11 March 2017 after winning their 25th match and maintaining their 100% record. The college side went on break more National League 1 records by winning all 30 games and gaining promotion to the highest level in the club's history. Other records by Hartpury included most league points in a season (143), most points scored (1,455), as well as tying with Ealing Trailfinders (2014–15) for most bonus points gained in a season (28).
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Whilst no rugby league team in Britain has completed the perfect season in the top flight, this has been achieved on two occasions in lower divisions, once in the 2nd division and once in the 3rd. Hull F.C. achieved this feat in the 1978–79 Season, where they won 26 from 26 games, gaining promotion to the top division for the second time in three seasons. This was also achieved by the Dewsbury Rams in 2009 during their Championship 1 (third division) season where they won all 18 games from a possible 18, winning promotion immediately after being relegated the previous season where they won just two games. Since their 2009 promotion, the Rams have so far stayed in the sports' second division, including two play off finishes.
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The 2015–16 season is Shrewsbury Town's 130th year in existence and their first season back in League One after gaining promotion the previous season. Much of the season was spent fighting relegation, with safety only secured following the final home match of the season where despite losing to Peterborough United, same day defeats for Blackpool and Doncaster Rovers ensured another season of League One football with one game to spare. The club also participated in the FA Cup, notably reaching the fifth round for the first time since 1991, and also reached the second rounds of both the League Cup and the Football League Trophy. A team consisting of fringe and youth players retained the Shropshire Senior Cup for the second consecutive season after beating AFC Telford United on penalties in the final.
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At the end of 1993–94, Anderson quit Barnsley after just a year to become assistant manager of Middlesbrough under former Old Trafford teammate Bryan Robson. Despite retiring from playing football in 1994, Anderson was still officially registered as a player and following an injury crisis at Middlesbrough he played two games for the club in 1994–95 when they were promoted to the Premier League as Division One champions. After gaining promotion he finally hung up his playing boots. Anderson helped Robson assemble a side that reached both domestic cup finals (both of which they lost) in 1996–97, although they were relegated due to a three-point deduction for postponing a December fixture at late notice as a result of so many players being unable to play due to illness or injury.
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In 2008 Kingdom finally broke into the top 3 at the Scottish Championships, the best result by a Fife band in 30 years. That result was repeated in 2012, continuing Kingdom's consistent run of Scottish Championship results. The band won the Carnegie Invitation Contest in 2005, retaining the title in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2018. Kingdom also won the Land O'Burns contest in 2011 (and were runners up in 2012), the Northern Counties title in 2017 and 2018 and the Scottish Challenge Shield in 2018. Kingdom has also found success at a National Level, winning the 2006 Senior Trophy competition and gaining third place at the 2009 Senior Cup. In 2014 Kingdom were runners up at the Senior Cup, gaining promotion to the Grand Shield for 2015.
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The old 2nd tier in the Bolivian Football pyramid consists of 9 regional leagues (one for each department), the number of participants varies depending on the department, It usually has between 8 and 12 teams. Both winner and runner-up of each league compete in the Copa Simón Bolívar, with the winner of such tournament gaining promotion to the 1st Division, and the runner-up playing a play-off match with the 11th placed team in the 1st Division. Until 1976 all 8 regional championships (Pando didn't have an organized tournament back then) were the top in the national football pyramid, with the winner of the Copa Simón Bolívar being crowned as national champion. In 2011, and for five seasons, the Copa Simón Bolívar was replaced by the Liga Nacional B, until 2016 when it was reinstated as Bolivia's second-tier football championship.
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Woodhouse was born in Warrington and played as a teenager for Monk's Hall in the Cheshire County League, before joining Bury in May 1921. At Bury he played at inside right making six appearances in each of the 1921–22 and 1922–23 seasons. In 1923–24 he made eleven appearances, contributing three goals as Bury gained second place in the Second Division table thus gaining promotion to the top flight. In a bid to strengthen the team for their return to the First Division, Bury signed Southampton's experienced left half Bill Turner with Woodhouse and John Callagher moving to the south coast as part of the deal. Woodhouse made his debut for Southampton on 30 August 1924 in the opening match of the season playing at inside left, before losing his place to Cliff Price after six games.
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In post- Second World War Germany, the club, playing under the name of TSV Goslar, gained entry to the tier-two Landesliga Niedersachsen-Braunschweig in 1947. In its first season there, it finished in fourth place.Landesliga Niedersachsen 1947/48 Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 9 July 2009 It finished runners-up the following year. The four Landesligas in Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen) were reduced to two leagues from 1949 and Goslar became part of the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen Ost, which it won in its first attempt.Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen Ost 1949/50 Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 9 July 2009 The club was unsuccessful in gaining promotion to the next level up however, failing in the promotion round to the Oberliga Nord. TSV Goslar declined somewhat from there, finishing third in 1951, fourth in 1952 and ninth in 1953.
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Chart of FC Wettingen table positions in the Swiss football league system FC Wettingen spent the first few decades of their life bobbing around the lower echelons of the Swiss leagues until finally in 1969 they made it to the National League B. The next season they gained promotion and in the 1969/70 season they played in the Swiss Super League. However, due to their poor return of 15 points from 26 games they were relegated, finishing in 13th place out of 14. The club spent the next years in the lower leagues of Swiss football until they made a return to top level football for the 1982–83 season where they remained until their relegation in the 1986–87 season. They made a swift return to the top flight gaining promotion in the 1987–88 season.
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In the 1952–53 season, the team won promotion to the second tier once again and then promotion to the top tier of Lisbon football in the 1957–58 season. In the 1971/72 season, the club found themselves relegated back into the second tier; however in the following season they immediately bounced back by winning the division and gaining promotion. Things improved further for the club when they won promotion to the national leagues for the first time and ended their debut campaign of the 1976/77 National third division in seventh. On 17 November 1982, the club were recognized as a Public Utility Institution and it seemed to help them as they came second within the league and won promotion to the second tier for the first time at the end of 1982/83 season.
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With the launch of the Super 12 in 1996, both Australia and New Zealand adopted franchise-based models for their provincial teams that were to compete in the new competition. However, the South Africa teams were to be determined by the results of the previous season's Currie Cup, with the top four sides gaining entry in the Super 12. Newlands did see Super 12 competition during the era when this model of competition was used, with the Western Province gaining promotion for the inaugural season of 1996. However, the team did not perform that well, winning only three matches from 11 fixtures, and finishing second last on the table, though Transvaal and the Wellington Hurricanes both won the same number of games as the Western Province, they finished higher, due to a superior for and against.
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The football team that serves the village is Alvechurch FC, which was founded in 1929 and played in the local park prior to a move to Lye Meadow. They reached the Third Round of the FA Cup in 1973, losing 4-2 to Bradford City, the club was at its greatest in the 80's when it spent a large stint in the Southern League Premier. In November 1993 they folded, but a group of supporters resurrected the club in 1994, in season 2002-03 the club gained promotion to the Midland Football Alliance, now known as the Midland Football League Premier, and won the division in the 2016-17 season. In the 2017-18 season, they finished 2nd in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League Division 1 South, gaining promotion to the 3rd tier of the non league pyramid.
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Busan also reached the final of the FA Cup, knocking out higher league opposition in Pohang Steelers, FC Seoul, Jeonnam Dragons and Suwon Bluewings but once again lost over a two- legged final, this time to Ulsan Hyundai. For the 2018 season in the newly re- branded K League 2, Choi Yun-kyum was appointed manager after previously gaining promotion with Gangwon FC. Busan IPark eventually finished 3rd in the K League 2, but for the second consecutive season lost in the two legged playoff final, this time losing to FC Seoul. Despite again failing in their promotion bid, Busan broke numerous attendance records for the K League 2, including over 10,000 for the home leg of the playoff final. After failing to get promoted, manager Choi Yun-kyum resigned in the off-season and was replaced by Cho Deok-je.
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Danny Williams (born 2 March 1981) is an English former professional footballer who is now an FA licensed agent. He started his career at Chesterfield where after making his debut at turf moor (Burnley) aged 18 he went on to become a regular in his third season, before being released in 2002, like many players due to the ITV Digital saga. He was signed by Hereford United where he spent a further three seasons, almost gaining promotion to the Football League in the 2003–04 season. He scored two goals in a televised 9–0 win over Dagenham & Redbridge His next club was Stevenage Borough under Graham Westley but after a good start, coming on as a substitute against Crawley Town and scoring from a free-kick with his first touch, his season was curtailed due to injury.
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Following Rabat's relegation, Busuttil expressed interest in leaving the club and Adelmo Paris, who at that time was with Żurrieq, invited him to join him at semi-professional Verbania. In late August 1987, a season- long loan deal was agreed, with an additional clause added that following the season, in the event that a higher-level Italian club showed interest in Busuttil, Verbania would act on behalf of Rabat Ajax and receive 30% of any deal struck. Playing in the Promozione, at that time the fifth level in Italian football, Verbania finished second in the Piemonte and Aosta Valley regional division, gaining promotion to the Interregionale (today's Serie D). Busuttil ended his first stint outside his home country with eight goals to his name, and nowadays is still regarded with high esteem at the Piedmontese side.
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From 1989 to 1991, she was an English language tutor at the private ACC English Language School in Japan. On completing her MA, she took up a number of part-time positions at the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) and the University of Reading before being appointed as a full-time Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she worked from 1995 to 2001. After several part-time lecturing positions at University College, London, City, University of London and the University of Reading, she was appointed full-time as lecturer in Phonetics at the University of Reading in 2004, subsequently gaining promotion to Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and, in 2013, Professor of Phonetics. She was Head of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Reading University from 2009 to 2015.
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White worked as a registration agentThe Derbyshire Labour Movement: 1939-1945, accessed 14 May 2016 for his father during his unsuccessful campaign as a Liberal candidate for West Derbyshire in the 1910 General Election. At the onset of the First World War, he joined the 6th Notts and Derbyshire Battalion of the Territorial Force,British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920, ref 11630, www.ancestry.com a reserve formation of the British Army, in October 1914, gaining promotion to Corporal in November of the same year, and to Sergeant in March 1915, serving in the UK until his discharge from active service in 1917. Following the war, White again worked as his father's election agent in his successful defence of the West Derbyshire seat in 1922 and during the 1923 campaign for the same seat, which was ended by his father's death.
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Crombie came through the youth ranks of local side Lincoln United and played Sunday football for Adelaide Park also playing for Lincoln City juniors and Ruston Bucyrus first team before joining Lincoln City, managed by Graham Taylor, in 1977 as a professional player. He later transferred to Grimsby Town where he spent nine years as a regular player in the first team winning a promotion and a championship with Grimsby. After leaving Grimsby in 1987 he was signed by Bolton Wanderers managed by Phil Neal gaining promotion and scoring at Wembley in the Sherpa Van final with Bolton winning 4–1 he finished his career with Bolton Wanderers, in 1991 although he did have a brief spell as Assistant player manager at Lincoln City where he made one appearance before returning to Bolton to take up a coaching position.
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Both sides would be promoted to the 2002–03 National Division One with Orrell making an instant return following their relegation at the start of the season while Plymouth would make it a second promotion in a row. As well as gaining promotion the Devon-based side would also be easily the most popular side in the division with over 19,000 fans in total attending throughout the season. At the opposite end of the table Preston Grasshoppers and Waterloo would be the first sides to be relegated, followed by Rosslyn Park who battled to the end but never had quite enough to overtake relegation rivals Stourbridge and Kendal. Preston and Waterloo would drop down to the 2002–03 National Division Three North while Rosslyn Park went down to the 2002–03 National Division Three South, with Waterloo suffering their second consecutive relegation.
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For many years the club only competed in the lower divisions of Albanian football, but they managed to achieve promotion to the top tier Albanian Superliga in 1990 for the very first time. During their debut season in the top flight the club finished in 12th place out of 14 teams with a record of 12 wins, 10 draws and 17 losses.Albanian Football Season 1990–91 The following season they would again finish 2 places from the bottom, in 14th place out of 16 teams,Albanian Football Season 1991–92 a feat they would replicate the following season once again, but this time the league format had changed and the club was relegated to the Albanian First Division.Albanian Football Season 1992–93 The club returned to the top flight in 1995 after winning the 1994–95 First Division title and gaining promotion.
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While not nearly as popular as their city rivals, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Be'er Sheva made great strides in recent years including gaining promotion in juit has suffered two subsequent relegations and then a promotion, in which it jumped from Liga Alef to Liga Leumit, due to the closure of Liga Artzit, and played three seasons more in Liga Leumit, until relegation in the 2011–12 season to Liga Alef, the third tier of Israeli football. In 2013–14, Maccabi Be'er Sheva finished 14th in Liga Alef South, and relegated to Liga Bet following a defeat of 0–1 to Hapoel Hod HaSharon in the promotion/relegation play-offs. It was eventually reprieved from relegation, after Ironi Bat Yam, which has played in Liga Alef South, folded during the summer.Ironi Bat Yam ultimately closed Goler1, 25.8.
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By the end of the season Nuneaton would finish as champions, just edging out runners up New Brighton by virtue of an extra win and gaining promotion to the 2003–04 National Division Two. New Brighton would go into a promotion playoff away at the 2002–03 National Division Three South runners up Lydney but were unable to join Nuneaton as Lydney won 21 - 7 to claim the final promotion slot. At the other end of the table, Scunthorpe were the first team to be relegated with just one win all season while Hull Ionians, Broadstreet and Bedford Athletic were the other teams to go down at a later date with Bedford Athletic just one point off safety. Hull Ionians would drop to North Division 1 while Scunthorpe, Broadstreet and Bedford Athletic would drop to Midlands Division 1.
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The expense of running a relatively small club at a national level began to take its toll and with dramatic cuts in funding, Mensajero was relegated at the end of the 2001–02 season, 11 points behind the penultimate team, CD Onda, and 18 points from the safety zone. Two years later, they dropped down to the regional leagues, vacated Silvestre Carrillo grounds and set up home at the Municipal Estadio Bajamar, sharing it with neighbouring SD Tenisca. After its grounds' improvements were finished, Mensajero returned home for the end of the 2006–07 season, before gaining promotion back to level four in June 2008 and later back to level three in June 2015. In the 2015-16 season the club managed to retain its place in Tercera División, finished 13th, 4 points away from relegation zone.
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For the 2013-14 season CVRFC fields sides within the U18, U16 x2 teams, U14 and U13 age groups playing within the Herts and Middx leagues. 2008/2009 season saw the first Junior side put out by Chess Valley in the U13 age group. For the 2010/2011 Season Juniors are represented at U13's and U15's. For the 2012/13 season youth sides will be represented with one under 17s team (div 5) two under 15s teams (div 2 and 7) and an under 13s team (div 4) In the 2011/2012 season the U14's have won an amazing 6 trophy's including Saracens JP Morgan 7's tournament, The Hertfordshire 10s Cup tournament, Leicester tigers tiger challenge, Aylesbury 10s, the Hertfordshire plate tournament, and finally league three championship gaining promotion to league two.
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The 2002–03 campaign may have been disappointing personally for O'Neil but it was a great one for the club as they convincingly won the First Division title, thereby gaining promotion to the Premier League. He was loaned to Walsall at the beginning of the 2003–04 season in order to gain first team experience. His impressive performances for the Midlands side and Portsmouth's increasing injury problems led to a recall in November 2003. He went straight into the starting eleven for his Premier League debut against bottom of the table Leeds United at Fratton Park and scored two goals in a 6–1 win. This performance meant that he maintained his place for the next match, away at Fulham but then had to travel to Dubai to captain England Under 20s in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.
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Delfín SC was founded on 1 March 1989; after founder of Club Deportivo 9 de Octubre Pedro Azua ceded the team to a group of directors from Club Social Delfín. It was Efrén Delgado, Otto Schwarz, and Benincaza whom later joined to create 9 de Octubre-Delfín, which later it renamed Delfín Sporting Club. The club started off on a strong note winning the Serie B championship in 1989 and gaining promotion to the top-flight Serie A in its first season. Surprisingly, the young team was able to stay in Serie A until 1995, when it was relegated back to the Serie B. During their time in the Serie A, the club gained the nickname El ídolo de Manta (Manta's Idol), a nickname previously given to Manta Sport Club, which was Manta's previous team in the top-flight.
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Arrived at the semi-finals, in the mini standings of group A, Palermo, together with Cagliari, Foggia and Lecce, played the first place for the final and, after having fought for a long time for that, came first on equal points with Lecce. It was therefore necessary to play a play-off for the final and to have the best were the Lecce players, set 1–0 in the neutral pitch of Naples. The promotion was then obtained the following year, thanks also to 15 goal striker Carlo Radice. Palermo then got off to a great start in Serie B, almost gaining promotion during its first season with a third-place finish, only three points behind Bari. The following season it gained promotion and the Serie B championship, with Radice scoring 27 of the 50 goals for Palermo.
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However, the team's cup run did not reflect their league form, as they finished ninth in the Second Division, and thus were relegated to the Third Division for season 2003–04. The team's fortunes improved from there as, under Neil Watt, they won the Third Division at the first attempt, gaining promotion back to the Second Division. In season 2004–05, the team stayed in the top two for most of the campaign. A 1–1 draw with closest promotion rivals Morton on 30 April 2005 saw them gain promotion to the First Division for the third time, although they were relegated to the Second Division the following season after finishing ninth and losing out in the play-offs to Partick Thistle. The team had a largely unsuccessful campaign in 2006–07, with heavy defeats by relegation rivals Peterhead and Forfar Athletic.
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Kemp was born in Salerno, Italy, to an Italian mother and an English army father. He joined Wolverhampton Wanderers as a 15-year-old apprentice in April 1961, signing as a professional in May 1963. He made three Football League appearances for the Wolves before Ted Bates signed him for Southampton in June 1965 for a fee of £5,000. He made his debut at The Dell playing at inside-left against Preston North End on 27 November 1965, when George O'Brien was ill with hepatitis. He scored the Saints' second goal with a "brave header" in a 5–2 victory, and retained his place in the forward line for the next three matches before losing his place to Norman Dean. Southampton finished the 1965–66 season as runners-up in the Second Division, gaining promotion to the top division.
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Coggins was born in Bristol playing local football with Victoria Albion and representing the Bristol Suburban League XI. He joined Bristol St George before Alex Raisbeck signed him for Bristol City in September 1925, then playing in the Football League Third Division South. Coggins replaced Frank Vallis in goal to make his debut on Boxing Day 1925 in the 2–1 win at Southend United. He was an ever-present member of the City side that won the Third Division South title in 1926–27, thus gaining promotion to the Second Division. He spent a further three seasons at Ashton Gate making 41 appearances in 1927–28, 40 appearances in 1928–29 and 26 appearances in 1929–30 before losing his place to George Newlands. Bristol City only just avoided relegation finishing 20th in both 1928–29 and 1929–30.
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Boithang started his career at Shillong Lajong's academy and made his senior professional debut during the 2009-10 I-League season, scoring twice, while at the same time, actively playing for Lajong's youth team. With his team relegated at the end of the season, Boithang continued with the youth team while participating in the 2011 I-League 2nd Division. Lajong finished the final round at the top of the table and hence gaining promotion to the 2011-12 I-League. Boithang's season got off to a good start as he scored for Lajong in the 2011 Federation Cup against Churchill Brothers in the 70th minute on 17 September 2011. He would score his first goal of the 2011-12 season against Chirag United Kerala on 24 March 2012 in a 3-2 loss for his team.
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Despite finishing in fourth place in Serie A, and qualifying for the UEFA Cup, he won no silverware during his spell with the club. During his second season in charge of Napoli, he was dismissed by the club's owner at the time, Corrado Ferlaino, following the team's elimination in the second round of the UEFA Cup, despite the club's notable 5–1 away victory over Valencia in the first round of the tournament. He did, however, introduce Gianfranco Zola to the first team to replace the suspended star Diego Maradona, who had recently left the club, as well as Daniel Fonseca, whom he played alongside veteran striker Careca in the team's front line. Ranieri joined Fiorentina in 1993, gaining promotion to Serie A after winning the 1993–94 Serie B title in his first season in charge of the Florence-based side.
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The 2016–17 season was Oxford United's first season back in League One after gaining promotion the previous season, and their 123rd year in existence. As well as competing in League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup, League Cup and League Trophy. Oxford lost three key players in the close season, Kemar Roofe departing for Leeds for a club record of £3m, Callum O'Dowda (less expectedly) to Bristol City for around £1m, and striker Danny Hylton who declined a contract renewal offer and joined Luton Town in League Two. United narrowly failed to sign Matty Taylor to replace the goal-scoring potential of these three players, but Chris Maguire, after protracted negotiations, signed a one-year contract extension and strikers Wes Thomas and Kane Hemmings were brought in to boost the forward line, the latter for a £250,000 fee.
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Relegation to the Second Division was suffered in the 1952–53 season and it took Stoke ten season to get back into the First Division with Tony Waddington helping Stoke to gain promotion. He had a successful time at Stoke leading the club to their first major trophy in 1972, winning the Football League Cup as well as reaching the semi-final of the FA Cup and competed in European football on two occasions. However Stoke's Victoria Ground was damaged by gale-force winds in January 1976 and the club had to sell their best players to cover the cost for the repairs. This eventually led to Stoke being relegated the following 1976–77 season, Stoke soon made a return though gaining promotion in 1978–79 season. In the 1984–85 season Stoke experienced a terrible season finishing bottom after picking up a record low of 17 points.
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Despite the club's high finishes in some seasons throughout its initial 10-year stint in the Segunda División it was relegated in the 1992/93 season back to the Tercera División. The club stayed in the Tercera División for another 6 seasons before, again, gaining promotion to the Segunda División B following a first-placed finish in the División due to a last match of the season win. This proved to be the start of the club having a period of short stints in the Tercera and Segunda B, with 3 seasons in the Segunda B (1999/00 – 2001/02), 6 in the Tercera (02/03- 2007/08), 1 in the Segunda B (2008/09) and 2 in the Tercera (2009/10, 2010/11). A notable occurrence during these string of promotions and relegations was the arrival of Alfredo Gallardo as the Chairman of the club in the 2002/03 season.
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In 2009 Hearts took over Musselburgh Windsor Ladies Football Club, changing their name to Hearts Ladies F.C. The name was changed once again in 2018 when the club became known as Hearts Women F.C. In December 2018, Hearts owner Ann Budge announced at the Heart of Midlothian AGM a "six-figure investment year on year" into Hearts Women, alongside an expansion to their academy in order to integrate the women's team further into the club. In January 2019, Hearts announced their intention to "invest significantly in women and girls' football in 2019 and beyond". This included the recruitment of Kevin Murphy as First Team Manager, who previously oversaw all football operations within Manchester City Women's Academy Department. Hearts Women clinched the SWPL 2 title with a 3-0 win against Partick Thistle on the final day of the 2019 season, gaining promotion to the SWPL 1.
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The 2007–08 National Division Two was the eighth version (twenty first overall) of the third division of the English rugby union league system using the name National Division Two. New teams to the division included Waterloo and Otley who were relegated from the 2006–07 National Division One while promoted teams included Blaydon coming up from the 2006–07 National Division Three North while Southend (champions) and Westcombe Park (playoffs) came up from the 2006–07 National Division Three South. At the end of the season Otley made an instant return to their former division by beating runners up Manchester to the title by just one point, with Manchester also gaining promotion by virtue of their second-place finish - both teams would be promoted to the 2008–09 National Division One. Relegated teams included Halifax, Henley Hawks and Nuneaton with Halifax picking up just two wins all season.
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From May 1865 Kimberly served aboard the steam frigate , the flagship of the European Squadron, receiving promotion to commander on July 25, 1866, and returning the United States in September 1867. He commanded the receiving ship at New York in 1867–70, then the screw sloop on the Asiatic Station in 1870–72, taking part in the Korean expedition in May–July 1871, serving as the commander of the landing forces. He then commanded the monitor along the east coast in 1873–74. Kimberly was promoted to captain on October 3, 1874, and commanded the sloop on the South Atlantic Station in 1875–76, and the screw sloop in the Pacific in 1877–78. During the early 1880s Kimberly served at the New York Navy Yard, and was the President of the Examining and Retiring Board in 1883–85, gaining promotion to commodore on September 27, 1884.
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In 1971, relegation from Division Three took Bury into the Fourth Division for the first time. They gained promotion in 1974 and spent six seasons in the Third Division before the next relegation. The club celebrated its centenary in 1985 by gaining promotion back to the Third Division. Bury came close to promotion from the Third Division in both 1990 and 1991 when they finished fifth and seventh respectively to qualify for the play-offs. They were eliminated at the semi-final stage in both play-offs, losing 2–0 on aggregate to Tranmere Rovers in 1990 and 2–1 on aggregate to neighbours Bolton Wanderers in 1991. Relegation followed in 1992 and then Bury qualified for the fourth- tier play-off in 1993 by finishing seventh but, yet again, lost their semi- final tie by going down 1–0 on aggregate to York City.
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Born in Athens, Stelios is the second son of Alekos Giannakopoulos, a retired football player who had enjoyed Division A football in the 1960s. He joined Ethnikos Asteras (the semi- professional club of his neighbourhood Kaisariani) when he was seven years old, later moved for one year to Doxa Vyronas, and finally made his first-team debut for Ethnikos Asteras in the autumn of 1991, Official site of Doxa Vyrona in a season which ended with the club gaining promotion to the professional Third Division. Next year, in his opening season as a professional, the young striker found himself scoring six goals and impressing the scouters of clubs that participated in higher divisions. In the summer of 1993 he moved to Paniliakos; he stayed there for three years, scoring 26 goals in 84 games and establishing himself as a member of the national U21 team.
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After nine fruitless seasons at Silver Royd, Scarborough's luck would finally change during the 2017–18 season, gaining promotion by default having finished as runners up in Yorkshire 1 after Durham/Northumberland 1 side Durham City was unable to raise a side to contest the playoff game. The season got even better when Scarborough finally won the Yorkshire Shield at the third time of asking, defeating Old Rishworthians 41–27 at Brantingham Park in Brantingham on 18 May 2018. Despite being newcomers to North 1 East – which incidentally was the highest level the club had reached since the 2002–03 season – Scarborough more than held its own and booked a second successive promotion playoff after finishing runners up to champions, Morpeth. Sadly, Scarborough was denied its highest ever league position, as it lost 7–17 away to North 1 West runners Blackburn in the match held on 27 April 2019.
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IWBF EuroLeague 3 results 2013 (accessed on March 1, 2014)IWBF Eurocup club rankings (accessed on March 1, 2014) In March 2013, FCK Rolling Devils re-established as a separate wheelchair basketball department.1.FC Kaiserslautern club departments (accessed on March 1, 2014) In the season 2013/14 the Rolling Devils again advanced to the quarter finals of the German National Cup and in the third attempt won the championship in the 2nd German Federal League thereby gaining promotion to the 1st German Federal League.1st German Wheelchair Basketball Federal League 2014 (1. Rollstuhlbasketball- Bundesliga) rankings (accessed on March 1, 2015) In the season 2014/15, the Devils made it again to the quarter finals of the German National Cup and finished their first season in the 1st German Federal League on rank 7 and thereby as the best promoted team of the last four seasons.
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Carbery served in France and Belgium with the British Expeditionary Force from 15 December 1914 to 17 May 1915, gaining promotion to lieutenant on 9 June, and returning to active duty between 16 July 1915 and 25 April 1916. He was wounded twice. He was then seconded to the Royal Flying Corps to train as a pilot, receiving the Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate No. 3383 at Hounslow on 31 July 1916, flying a B.E.2c biplane, and was appointed a flying officer by the RFC on 4 August. He first served in No. 9 Squadron, a reconnaissance and artillery-spotting unit, and by early 1917 was serving in No. 52 Squadron. His first aerial victory came on 25 January, flying a R.E.8, driving a German aircraft down over Morlancourt, which was then captured. On 14 February, flying a B.E.2e, he shot down an Albatros D.III over St. Pierre.
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After a significant rebuild over the summer of 2015, Mons Calpe had a second chance at promotion through the end-of-season playoff against Premier Division side FC Britannia. A victory in that game saw the young club seal their first-ever season in the top-flight of Gibraltarian football. The summer after gaining promotion, Mons Calpe's football structure went through a total reconstruction to further professionalise the club, highlighted by a majority-share investment by a US-based group led by Jose Alfredo Reygadas. The Calpeans then appointed Brazilian/Portuguese coach William Amaral de Andrade as first team head coach and former Gibraltar U19 Manager Terrence Jolley as his assistant manager for the 2016–17 season. After a bad run of form in winter saw them slip from 3rd to 5th, William was sacked on 16 January and replaced by Jolley on an interim basis.
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They ended the season gaining promotion back to the first division. In subsequent years MFK had minor successes, yet failed to win the league. In 2008/09 season, the club won its first trophy in some 11 years, by beating Artmedia Petržalka in the final match of the Slovak Cup, in Senec. The match ended in a 3-1 win, with goals scored by Marko Milinković (28th minute), Róbert Cicman (56th minute) and Ján Novák (69th minute). The win granted Košice the right to compete in 2009-10 UEFA Europa League, which they entered in the Third qualifying round, in which they defeated FK Slavija Sarajevo 5–1 on aggregate, with Novák scoring two goals. In the subsequent Play-off, to which 3 of 4 Slovak teams qualified (Košice, Žilina and Slovan), Košice faced AS Rome, who were the 6th team of Serie A 2008-09.
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However, for the second time in the club's history, it ceased activity at the end of the 1931–32 season. Four years later, Lecce returned and competed Serie C, finishing 11th in their return season. Around this time, the club was in turmoil: the following season they withdrew from Serie C after four days, and then during the 1938–39 season, they finished in third place but were moved down to 12th after it was revealed the club had violated the league's federal regulations. The club finished in first place during the 1943–44 season, but club football was then suspended due to World War II. Nonetheless, when club football resumed, Lecce finished as champions of Serie C, gaining promotion back into Serie B. Two decent seasons followed (finishing fourth and third in respective seasons), with star player Silvestri scoring 20 goals in one season, before the club was relegated.
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Petar Houbchev, who had previous international experience both as a player and manager, succeeded Kostadin Vidolov. The lack of good results, however, saw Hubchev sacked from his position in October 2011. Botev Plovdiv then reached an agreement with a new head coach – Milen Radukanov, who didn't show good results either. Therefore, Kostadin Vidolov returned at the helm of the club and succeeded in gaining promotion to the first level of Bulgarian football, after a 2–0 win against Sportist Svoge in the play-offs. Botev Plovdiv team before the 2016–17 Bulgarian Cup final against Ludogorets Razgrad In the 2012–13 A Group season, the club showed good performance and finished fourth. Botev Plovdiv was allowed to participate in the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League, taking the place of the then financially struggling CSKA Sofia, this marked the return of the team in Europe, after 18 years of absence.
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Between 2011 and 2016 the club received 1.2 billion HUF as a backing to develop the club's stadium and the team. On 17 September 2012, László Arany was sacked by the club after the defeat against Ceglédi VSE at home. The team with Arany could win only the first match of the 2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season against DVSC-DEAC but after they lost four matches in a row. In the 2014–15 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season Balmazújváros managed to escape from relegation from the second division by finishing 13th and gaining one point more than their rival Siófok. In the 2015–16 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season Balmazújváros finished 5th therefore they could not get promoted to the first division. On 4 June 2017, Balmazújváros finished second in the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season thereby gaining promotion to the highest level of the Hungarian League system.
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The first Welsh league championship – of the Third division – finally came in 1996, after 50 years of membership but the club's progress up the league was almost halted on ground criteria again, as council bureaucracy meant Pontardawe were one of the last clubs at this level to erect a covered stand. But the club was now on a definite upward curve, its youth side lifting the Welsh Youth Cup and MacWhirter League title in 1997, and the senior side gaining promotion to the First Division in 1998. This time the club (now adopting the name of Pontardawe Town) lasted 6 seasons and then returned to the top flight for the 2005–06 season after winning the Second Division and losing to Goytre in the Shamrock League Cup final. Their return to the First division saw them finish third in the table and again finishing runners up in the Shamrock League Cup.
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After playing in the lower leagues of NSW football for the early 1980s, Cyprus United were introduced into the New South Wales Inter Urban Division Five for the 1985 season.1984 NSW Lower Leagues In their first season in the Inner Urban league, they won two-thirds of their matches, finishing the season with twelve wins and gaining promotion.1985 NSW Lower Leagues This was further followed by a string of seven consecutive promotions,.Stanmore Hawks Divisional History The club was promoted to the NSW 2nd Division after winning the NSW 3rd Division in 1990. In 1992, the club experienced a magnificent season, winning the NSW 2nd Division that year, leading to Stanmore's promotion into the 1993 NSW Premier League season.. Stanmore finished 9th in 1993 and 12th in 1994, avoiding relegation as the league was set to expand to 14 teams for 1995.
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The Football League rebranded their divisions ahead of the 2004–05 season, so that the fourth tier became Football League Two, and the change of name coincided with a change of fortune for Scunthorpe. Gaining promotion to League One as runners-up, ahead of Swansea City on goal difference, this time they not only stayed up but went on to win the League One title in 2006–07. Relegated in their first season in the Championship, they came straight back via the play-offs to spend another two seasons in the second tier. In 2008–09, they lost to Luton Town in the final of the Football League Trophy, a cup competition open to teams from the third and fourth tiers of the English football league system, and the following season, they reached the last 16 of the League Cup for the first time.
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A product of the Sale Sharks academy, Mike began his career by playing academy rugby for Sale as well as lower league club rugby for Preston Grasshoppers and Altrincham Kersal before being signed by Fylde part way through the 2007-08 season. While playing for Fylde, Mike was part of a squad that won three consecutive Lancashire Cup titles as well as gaining promotion to National League 1 by becoming National League 2 North champions in 2010-11 playing alongside former England legend Jason Robinson. While at Fylde Mike proved to be a highly versatile and valuable player scoring both tries and being a reliable points kicker with 362 points scored in his five and half seasons spent with the club. It was his performances for Fylde which led to Mike being called up by the Lancashire county team which he helped to win the prestigious Bill Beaumont in 2010 - a feat which also saw him be awarded the Lancashire Young Player of the Year.
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The club was relegated in 1951–52 but were promoted back the following year. In 1959–60, West were again relegated, but this time took six years to regain a place in Division One. This was short-lived, however, as West were relegated again in 1968–69. Despite this, the club won the Rhodes cup for the second time in 1969–70. After again achieving promotion to Division One in 1970–71, two relegations in three years saw West playing in the Lancashire and Cheshire League Division Three, in which they stayed until the late 1980s. In the 1987–88 and 1988–89 season the club achieved back to back promotions as champions. In 2003, the club changed its name to West Didsbury & Chorlton, to reflect its new location after an earlier ground move. In 2006, they entered the Manchester League Division One, won two Murray Shields in three seasons, and were crowned champions in 2010–11, gaining promotion to the Premier Division.
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Their first 10 matches of the season saw Hyde win every match, equalling Hyde's best ever start to a season dating back to the 1925–26 season and also breaking the record for the best ever start to a season in Conference North. On the back of this incredible start, Hyde finished the season as Conference North champions following a 4–1 win over Boston United in their last home match of the season, gaining promotion to the Conference Premier for the first time and breaking the club's record for the highest points total in their history with 90 points. Following the end of the season manager Gary Lowe and assistant Martyn Booty resigned, to be replaced by Scott McNiven and Gavin McCann, respectively. The 2013–14 season was a disastrous one for Hyde FC, losing numerous matches including both the Boxing Day and New Years Day fixtures to Macclesfield Town, both 3–0, including a Scott Boden hat-trick at Ewen Fields.
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On 26 May 2016, he joined fellow Championship side Huddersfield Town as their new first-team coach, replacing the departed Mike Marsh, who joined up with the England national under-17 football team. The decision to bring Hughes in as first team coach proved yet again to be a success and have another positive impact with in the club, assisting David Wagner in gaining promotion to the Premier League and creating history in their first full season together. When Wagner left Huddersfield by mutual consent in January 2019, Hughes stopped working with Huddersfield on a day-to-day basis and his departure, along with that of assistant head coach Christoph Bühler, was officially confirmed at the end of the 2018–19 season upon Huddersfield's relegation from the Premier League. The following season Hughes was approached for his services by newly promoted Sheffield United to take the role of lead U23 coach which he accepted after turning other first team opportunities down .
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Ruthin Town joined division two coming runners up in their first year and gaining promotion to division 1. The following year they were runners up in the top division. The British Legion element of the name was dropped in 1953 and Ruthin Town FC was born. In 1958 the club introduced a reserve team that entered the WNL (Wrexham Area) Division 3. The first team won the first division in 1963–64 and the North Wales Challenge Cup in 1967. The 1972–73 season was an exciting one for the Vale of Clwyd as both Ruthin and Denbigh were contesting the first division title. Denbigh won on goal difference with both teams having won 18, drawn 7 and lost 3. Ruthin, however, won the North Wales Challenge Cup for the second time. In 1977–78 the first team was relegated from the first division which meant the reserves also had to go down from the second division.
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At the end of the season, the team won the Anglo-Italian Cup in the final against Wimbledon FC. At the end of the seventies the Lombard club came close to gaining promotion to the Serie A, but lost the chance two matches from the end of the season. Between the eighties and nineties, Monza saw an era of success between the second and third division: in 1988 and 1991 they won the Coppa Italia Serie C, both times against Palermo. In 1996, the club lost in the Coppa Italia Serie C final against Empoli. At the beginning of the 2000s, the club returned to Serie C1 again and in the mid-2000s, after losing the Coppa Italia Serie C final against Salernitana, Monza entered administration and started again from Serie D. In 2017 the club won the Serie D and returned to the Serie C, before losing their fourth Coppa Italia Serie C final in 2019, against Viterbese.
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The advent of league rugby in 1987 saw Newton Abbot placed in Cornwall/Devon - a tier 8 league in the English rugby union system. Their debut season in the leagues was one to forget as the club finished in bottom spot with 10 losses from 10 games played and were relegated to Devon League 1. Although relegation was disappointing, the club started to rebuild and by 1990 they had won their first county silverware since the 1920s, claiming the Havill Plate. Newton spent the next decade in Devon League 1, until after three seasons spent as runners up the club finally gained promotion as champions at the end of 1997-98. Success was quick to follow the very next season as Newton made it two promotions in a row at the end of 1998-99, this time winning Cornwall/Devon ahead of runners up Withycombe and gaining promotion to Western Counties West.
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The next few years were a real battle for the club, however the hard work began to pay off. After spending the next four years in the Victorian Metropolitan League 4th Division (later re-structuring to become the Victorian Metropolitan League 3rd Division), the club ended up finishing 9th in both 1982 and 1983, 10th in 1984, 8th in 1985 before winning the Victorian Metropolitan League 3rd Division title with 17 wins and 6 draws from their 26 matches. Their 1987 revisit to the Victorian Metropolitan League 2nd Division was a short one, gaining promotion that very year by finishing Runners Up to Westgate and missing the title by 1 point. The club's 1988 Victorian League 1st Division campaign was strong but missing out on promotion, finishing 3rd, however it was the club's title-winning 1989 Victorian League 1st Division season which saw the club back into the State's elite League – the Victorian State League.
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The club did come close to promotion a few times, missing out on 5 points in 1998 and on just one point in 2000. The Lion of Amphipolis In 2008, Panserraikos managed to end a 16-year wait, gaining promotion to the Greek Super League. Managed by Giannis Papakostas, the club had been leading the Second Division table for the most part of the season, even securing a top-three spot with two games to spare – though they had narrowly escaped another relegation in the previous two seasons. On 4 March 2009, Panserraikos won a historic match against Panathinaikos in the Olympic Stadium in Athens for the Greek Cup quarter finals with a score of 3–2 after being up 3–0 for 71 minutes. The first match leg ended at a 0–0 score. This amazing result landed Panserraikos a spot in the final 4 of the Greek Cup where they played against AEK Athens for a spot in the finals.
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When Peterborough were relegated from the First Division, Adcock was sold to Luton Town for £20,000 in August 1994, where he could only manage two substitute appearances, before being persuaded to return to Colchester United by manager Steve Wignall. Adcock returned in the summer of 1994, and he bagged another 28 league goals, featuring for the club at Wembley Stadium twice in as many years, losing in the 1997 Football League Trophy Final on penalties to Carlisle United, and gaining promotion to Division Two in the 1998 Football League Third Division play-off Final win over Torquay. Adcock scored his last goal for the U's in an infamous FA Cup first round defeat by Bedlington Terriers, coming off the bench to score a consolation goal in the 88th minute of the 4–1 trouncing. He wound down his career by featuring on loan for Heybridge Swifts before joining the club permanently following his release from Colchester in 1999.
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In 2015 the Point Cook Football Club fielded their first 'Superules' team with players aged over 35 competing against other teams in the AFL Masters, Victorian Metropolitan League Following a Special Meeting of the members and a vote the club moved its Senior & Reserve Sides from the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) Division 3 to enter the Western Region Football League (WRFL) in Division 2 for the 2018 Season. In 2018 the CLub entered 2 teams (Point Cook Blue & Point Cook Red) into the Western Region Football League (WRFL) Inaugural netball Competition, where Point Cook Blue won the Inaugural Victoria University Western Region Football League (WRFL) Netball Premiership Defeating Braybrook Red by 34 goals. Also in 2018 in its first year in the Western Region Football League (WRFL) Division 2 competition the Seniors took out the Premiership Defeating Yarraville Seddon Eagles by 7 points at Avalon Airport Oval, Werribee. Gaining promotion into Division 1 in Season 2019.
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Iker Casillas Fernández (; born 20 May 1981) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Popularly dubbed "San Iker" ("Saint Iker") for his ability to produce spectacular saves, Casillas is widely regarded to be one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and by some, as the greatest ever. He is known for his athleticism, quick reactions and outstanding shot-stopping ability. Having spent the majority of his career at Real Madrid, Casillas is one of the few players to achieve over 1000 professional career matches, and holds the record for the most clean sheets in the UEFA Champions League, as well as for the Spain national team. At club level, Casillas started his career with the Real Madrid youth team, eventually gaining promotion to the main team in 1999, where he became the youngest goalkeeper to play in the final of the Champions League, and to win the title, at 19 years and four days.
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Ice Arena Wales, the home of the Cardiff Devils The city's professional ice-hockey team, the Cardiff Devils (formed 1986), play against teams from across the UK in the Elite Ice Hockey League. The Devils played in the British Hockey League from 1987 to 1996, gaining promotion in two consecutive seasons—from Division 1 North, through Division 1—and remaining in the Premier division from the 1989–90 season, until the league's demise at the end of the 1995–96 season. The Cardiff Devils played in the British Ice Hockey Superleague (BIHL) (known as the Sekonda Ice Hockey Superleague from 1998–99 due to sponsorship rights)—the top-level professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom—between the 1995–96 season and 2000–01 season, when they were relegated to the British National League (BNL). Cardiff played in the (BNL) for two seasons before being promoted to the Elite Ice Hockey League at the end of the 2002–03 season, where they remain.
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The 2nd tier in the Bolivian Football pyramid consists of 9 regional leagues (one for each department), the number of participants varies depending on the department, It usually has between 8 and 12 teams. Both winner and runner-up of each league compete in the Copa Simón Bolívar, with the winner of such tournament gaining promotion to the 1st Division, and the runner-up playing a play-off match with the 11th placed team in the 1st Division. Until 1976 all 8 regional championships (Pando didn't have an organized tournament at the time) were the top in the national football pyramid, with the winner of the Copa Simón Bolívar being crowned as national champion. The oldest regional championship is the one played in La Paz, it started in 1914 and it was considered for many years as the top Bolivian league, even more when it turned into a semi-pro tournament in 1950 and started including teams from Oruro and Cochabamba.
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A skilled playmaker, Viqueira was born in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, and he made his professional debut with local Deportivo de La Coruña, appearing in 26 matches through two seasons (19 in 1995–96, as they finished ninth). After an abroad stint with lowly Portuguese Primeira Liga club S.C. Campomaiorense he returned to A Coruña, playing another year with the reserves. After two seasons with Xerez CD, gaining promotion to the second division in 2001, Viqueira switched to neighbours Recreativo de Huelva, where he would experience his most steady and fruitful period. After 32 La Liga games in the 2002–03 campaign, with relegation, he added a further 40 three years later – with three goals – as his team returned to the top level. Viqueira joined Levante UD in July 2007 but, as many other players, would leave the club in the following January transfer window due to the Valencians' severe financial crisis, joining old acquaintance Xerez on loan until the rest of the division two season.
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The club was founded on 10 March 1951 as FK Bulbulderac. They spent the following decade competing in the local leagues of Belgrade. In 1960, the club changed its name to BSK and continued playing in the lower leagues for another decade. They later changed their name to OFK Zvezdara in 1974. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the club started to climb up the national league pyramid, gaining promotion to the third tier in 1993. They spent the next two seasons in the Serbian League North (1993–94 and 1994–95), placing second and third respectively. Following the assassination of its president Miodrag Nikšić in July 1995, the club finished second in the newly formed Serbian League Belgrade in the 1995–96 season and earned promotion to the Second League of FR Yugoslavia. The club played in the Second League for five seasons between 1996 and 2001, narrowly missing promotion on two occasions (1997–98 and 1998–99).
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Prior to the club's promotion to the Premier League, Wigan were a team that had spent the majority of their history in the third and fourth tier of English football since the club's election into the Football League in 1978. In 1995, when the club was playing football in Division Three and struggling due to financial difficulties and declining attendances, Wigan was taken over by local businessman Dave Whelan, who ambitiously proclaimed that Wigan would be playing Premier League football within ten years. With the help of Whelan's financial backing, the club rapidly rose through the divisions, gaining promotion to the second tier of English football for the first time in 2003, and culminating with their promotion to the Premier League on the final day of the 2004–05 Championship season. Despite this success, the club was predicted by many to be relegated straight back down to the Championship, including The Times, who suggested Wigan "will need a miracle if they are to survive".
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However, a lack of goals and some poor form in the league meant the club faced some fears of relegation to League One, but luckily safety was secured with few games to spare. Nonetheless during that time, the club embarked on a successful FA Cup journey, reaching the semi-final where they were unlucky to lose 2–1 to Arsenal at Wembley. The following season saw the club bring in many players in the hopes of gaining promotion, however the club would finish in 17th. In the summer leading up to the 2016–17 season the club announced the departure of Brian McDermott and eventually he was to be replaced by former Manchester United defender Jaap Stam. Under Stam, Reading achieved their highest finish since relegation back to the Championship by finishing third and reaching the play-offs, where they beat Fulham on aggregate before facing Huddersfield Town in the final at Wembley where they lost on penalties following 0–0 draw after extra time.
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Il Crociato then spent another five seasons in Serie C, where they finished second place on two occasions before gaining promotion once again in 1953–54 with the help of the prolific Czechoslovakian left-winger Július Korostelev, who scored 15 of the side's 45 goals. While Korostelev headed the scoring charts that year, William Bronzoni was more consistent and remains the club's record league goalscorer to this day, having netted 78 times from 1945 to 1953 Following this promotion, one of the most successful periods in the club's history began, as the team would spend eleven consecutive years in the second tier and consistently finish mid-table; they would end up as high as ninth position in 1954–55, which represented a record for the club at that time. The stars of this era were Paolo Erba, who was named the capocannoniere, the league's top scorer, in 1956–57, and Ivo Cocconi, who set the club's appearance record, playing 308 times.
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In 2019 Kent County Cricket Club competed in Division One of the County Championship after gaining promotion in the 2018 season, the Royal London One- Day Cup and the 2019 t20 Blast. The season was the third in charge for head coach, and former player, Matthew Walker. Sam Billings retained the club captaincy that he was first awarded in 2018.Sam Billings: England limited- overs player replaces Sam Northeast as Kent captain, BBC Sport, 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2019-03-06. With Billings and vice-captain Joe Denly playing in the Indian Premier League, which ran until 5 May, Heino Kuhn was announced as interim captain for the early part of the season.Heino Kuhn to stand in as Kent captain in absence of Sam Billings and Joe Denly, Cricinfo, 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2019-03-18. Following an injury to Billings in April,Webb N (2019) Sam Billings: England batsman dislocates shoulder playing for Kent at Glamorgan, BBC Sport Wales, 2019-04-25.
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He moved to for the 2012–13 Rugby Pro D2 season, where he became far more involved in first-team action, making 27 appearances for the side as they finished second in the competition behind and subsequently gaining promotion to the Top 14 for 2013–14 by beating 30–10 in the promotion play-off final. He made fifteen appearances for Brive in the 2013–14 Top 14 season as they finished in ninth spot on the log. He made another seven appearances in the 2013–14 European Challenge Cup, where he helped them to top Pool 3 with five wins and a draw to qualify for the Quarter Finals, where they lost 7–39 to English Premiership side Bath. His involvement in 2014–15 was more limited, playing in nine matches during their Top 14 season as they narrowly avoided relegation, finishing in tenth spot, but just one log point ahead of relegated .
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Their contributions generated almost immediate results: in 1973 the club under the direction of Brazilian Jorge Tupinambá dos Santos won the Tercera División for the first time and earned promotion to the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño. Despite this success, The Rengifo family parted ways with Jorge Tupinambá dos Santos and hired Argentinian Juan Quarterone whose new tactics, player recruitment and training methods helped the team win the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño in 1974 and earn promotion to the Salvadoran Primera División for the first time in the club history. Platense did the impossible and won the 1975 Primera division, they also set various records doing so such being the second team to win the title after gaining promotion in their very first season (Aguila in 1959 being the first), The club had won all three titles i three different division consecutively, The club also completed the double winning the primera and the Torneo Fraternidad / UNCAF Club Championship.
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Ligi Ndogo players with former President Mwai Kibaki at State House in 2005 The senior football team was formed in 2005 with the initiative of current academy director and former senior team coach, Ibrahim Mbikalo, and club chairman Chris Amimo at the insistence of players Karim Rersa, Mohamed Junaid and Azim Butt. On arrival from a tour of the United Kingdom, the team members found themselves overage and with no category to fill in since the youth academy could only accommodate those below fourteen years of age. Under the guidance of Mbikalo, Ligi Ndogo gained their first honours by winning the Private Secondary Schools' League in 2005. They played in the Kiko Cup towards the end of the year, crashing out through a 3–2 loss to Kibera Combined on spot kicks. The team entered the second division of the Nationwide League in 2006, afterwards gaining promotion to the first division. The original team that was formed during the 2005 season included Junaid, Rersa, Butt and several other players.
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The club played their first ever official game on 25 August 2012 against Army Red at the Ambedkar Stadium in Delhi in which the club won the match 3–0 with Thoi Singh becoming the first player to ever score for the club in the 66th minute. The club then went on to the 2012 Durand Cup Final in which they lost 3–2 on penalties to then-current I-League club Air India FC. Then in January 2013 it was officially announced that the club would participate in the 2013 I-League 2nd Division with the goal of winning and gaining promotion to the I-League and while doing so the club also changed their name to the Mumbai Tigers Football Club so they could potentially form a connection between them and the city of Mumbai. Tigers gained direct entry to the I-League by bidding for a spot but a week before the 2013-14 season began they pulled out of the league and shut their senior team operations.
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Point Chev v Waitemata in 2010. The club was founded in 1919."Yo ho ho and ninety years done" Superleague, Issue 1 2010. p.27. In the 1980s and 1990s the club's senior team merged with the City club to form City-Pt Chevalier. In 2010 Awen Guttenbeil returned to the club as coach. Former professional players Stacey Jones, Wairangi Koopu, Monty Betham and Karl Te Nana all joined the squad for the club's 90th year as the team easily won the Phelan Shield. This began a rapid rise for the club as they won the Sharman Cup (second division) the following year, gaining promotion to the Fox Memorial for 2012. The Pirates finished the season third, but in their final match against the Marist Saints, the Pirates fielded a third-string side and were beaten 102–0, and denied Papakura, who had beaten the Pirates on both occasions the teams had met earlier in the year, a place in the semi-finals to play the Pirates again the following week.
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Farum BK was placed in the second group of the Denmark Series, the fourth tier in the Danish football pyramid, though it gained promotion to the first group after the club's maiden season. Jørgen Andersen, a former goalkeeper for Hvidovre, took over as the club's first head coach in 1992; the club stayed in the Denmark Series first group for six years. Under the guidance of manager Jørgen Tideman, who took over in 1994, Farum qualified for promotion into the 2nd Division in the 1997–98 season and subsequently turned professional for the first time in club history. Farum's first full season as a professional club was a fruitful one, edging out Aalborg Chang and Skive to fifth place by one point, gaining promotion for the second time in two years into the 1st Division. The club's meteoric rise was slowed at first with the new challenge of playing in the Danish second tier, though it was not stopped however, ending the 1999–2000 campaign with a respectable eighth-place finish, winning the same number of games as it lost.
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The advent of the Courage national leagues in 1987 saw Bude placed in Courage Cornwall League 1 (tier 9 of the league system), finishing 6th during their debut season. The club would once again reach the Cornwall Clubs Cup final in 1990, losing to Veor 9–8, before gaining promotion from Cornwall League 1 as runners up at the end of the 1991–92 season.Cornwall Rugby Football Union Official Handbook 1992–93 They only lasted one season in Courage Cornwall/Devon after being relegated in 1993, with another losing appearance the following year in the Cornwall Clubs Cup, this time being defeated by Saltash in the final. The last highlight of the 1990s was during the 1995–96 season, when Bude won Cornwall League 1 (their first ever league title) and were promoted back into Cornwall/Devon.Cornwall Rugby Football Union 1992-3,1996-7 As well as winning the league title the club were also presented with the Alan Barbery Cup – an award handed out by the Cornwall RFU to the Cornish club considered to have had the best league performance that season.
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The 1950s for Messina began in glorious fashion, they were crowned champions of Serie C under the management of Yugoslavian manager Mihaly Balacics. Messina did not falter in Serie B, during their first season in the league they avoided relegation. Giuseppe Melazzo and the Comitato Reggenza owned the club during this new period of relative success. During the following season, Messina finished 3rd. This period was also notable in Sicilian football for the rivalry between Messina and Catania, similar to the one the club's shared in the 1930s. The two clubs performed respectfully in terms of final positions in Serie B during the early 50s, with Catania gaining promotion to Serie A in 1954. Statistically, Messina were the more dominant club in the Sicilian derby during this period, winning 4 games and losing 2; the other 2 games finished as draws. Throughout the rest of the 1950s, Messina remained in the division as a whole finishing in a respectful position. Goffredo Muglia took over as president in 1958 to begin a brand new era for the club.
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The stricter operational costs of the league resulted in the club struggling financially, which was exacerbated by also losing their sponsorship. Over time, the club gained some financial support from several major Chinese businesses including Jiangsu TV, Jinling Petrochemical Company, several Jiangsu tobacco companies in addition to some international investment companies. The club changed their name to Jiangsu Jiajia as a result of sponsorship, however, the club's improved financial stability did not prevent relegation to the third tier at the end of the 1996 season. The club spent only one season in the third division before gaining promotion by winning the 1997 title. On 7 January 2000, the manufacturing company Jiangsu Sainty International Group took over the club and changed the club's name to Jiangsu Sainty. The new owners did not get off to the best of starts when it was discovered they were unable to prevent some of their players and coaches from taking bribes; maleficence was shown to have taken place in the 6 October game of the 2001 season in a 4–2 loss to Chengdu Wuniu.
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Founded in 1945, Ardley spent the majority of their early years in local competitions, primarily the Lord Jersey League,Ardley United-A Brief History Ardley United F.C. winning the Lord Jersey Cup in 1970 and Division One and the Charity Cup in 1984–85.Ardley United Club Honours Ardley United F.C. In 1988 they moved up to the Oxfordshire Senior League and won Division One at the first attempt, gaining promotion to the Premier Division. The 1990–91 season saw the club win the Premier Division and the Archie Goddard Cup. In 1993 they were promoted to Division One of the Hellenic League. In 1994–95 they won the Division One Cup, retaining it the following season. In the 1996–97 season they won both Division One and the Division One Cup, a feat they repeated the following season. In 2000, league reorganisation saw the club placed in Division One West. Following improvements to their ground to allow promotion to the Premier Division, a fifth-place finish in 2003–04 led to their moving up to the Premier Division, where they have remained since.
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Stoke fielded a second team for the first time in a league competition, the Combination, in 1891–92, under the name of 'Stoke Swifts'. The Swifts also played in the Midland League and the local North Staffordshire & District League, which they won on two occasions. The team joined the Birmingham & District League in 1900–01 and was renamed 'Stoke Reserves'. They temporarily had to return to local leagues in 1908 after the first team suffered financial difficulties and had to resign from the Football League, taking the reserves' place in the Birmingham & District League. They returned in 1911–12 and continued to play in it until they joined the newly founded Central League, a specific reserve team only league. In 1925 after Stoke-on-Trent was granted City status the second string became "Stoke City Reserves". They won the Central League title in 1927–28 and remained in the league until the 1980s when a Division Two was created. Stoke were relegated in 1984–85, gaining promotion in 1991–92, but suffered instant relegation in 1992–93, however promotion was achieved in 1993–94.
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Huntington's 8th goal of the season came away at Oldham Athletic 28 February in a 4–0 win. He won promotion with the Lilywhites in the 2014–15 season, scoring the second goal of a 4–0 victory over Swindon Town in the 2015 League One Play-Off Final at Wembley. Huntington won the Sir Tom Finney Trophy for the 2014/15 season awarded by the supporters. He signed a new two-year contract with Preston North End on 26 May 2015 which ran until the summer of 2017. On 16 November 2015 Huntington won League One Player Of The Year at the North West Football Awards for the 2014–15 season. Preston North End finished 11th in their first season in the EFL Championship after gaining promotion. Huntington signed a new two-year contract with Preston North End on 22 August 2016 with the option of a third year. His first goal of the 2016-17 season came on 14 January 2017, scoring a header against Brighton & Hove Albion in a 2–0 win and was subsequently named in the EFL Team of the Week.
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He also was in the team that won the Second Division play-offs, gaining promotion to the First Division. On 31 August 1998, he was instrumental in the thrashing of his old club, he provided two assists and a goal in the 5–1 home tie against West Bromwich Albion, he took a corner for Peter Handyside to head home from close range in the 6th minute, then on 17 minutes Smith's free kick was met by Richard Smith and Wayne Burnett placed a half-volley past Alan Miller, then in the 27th minute Jack Lester beat two men down the right before the striker crossed the ball for Smith to score. On 19 August 2000, he scored an equaliser in the 84th minute in the 1–1 draw against Portsmouth, Smith was unmarked and sent a left-foot volley past goalkeeper Russell Hoult after a Kevin Donovan cross from the right. On 2 March 2002, he scored the 5th goal in the 88th minute for the 'Mariners' in the 5–2 victory against promotion-chasing Crystal Palace, after some well worked movement by Danny Butterfield he passed to Smith who slotted the ball home.
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Hawks Football Club (Hawks FC) Founded in 1973 by the late Mr HOUSAINOU M.M. NJAI, has come a long way since its inception from an amateur club team to one of the oldest and leading teams presently playing in The Gambia Football Federation’s top flight. Since its formation as a purely amateur team without any major sponsorship, the club relied on the founder and dedicated people as members of the Executive of the Club who served as sponsors giving financial and moral support to the team. Under their leadership Hawks FC has made tremendous progress over the years gaining promotion from the Second division to the first division in 1975 but relegated in 1978 only to return to the First division in 1979 where the team has stayed to this date. From that time to date, the team was crowned first division League Champions twice, second division league Champions once, won five FA Cups, the most recent being the 2016/ 2017 FA Cup final played in June 2017, one Super Cup as well as winning other trophies like the SS Ceesay Trophy, and the Papa Njie Trophy.
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There were three promoted teams from Championnat National, replacing the three teams that were promoted to Ligue 1 following the 2013–14 season. A total of 20 teams competed in the league with three clubs relegated to the third division, the National. All clubs that secured Ligue 2 status for the season were subject to approval by the DNCG before becoming eligible to participate. On 18 April 2014, Luzenac became the first team to secure a spot in the Ligue 2 following a 1–0 victory over Boulogne-sur-Mer, which gave them an advance on the 4th placed team, Red Star, that couldn't be surpassed in the last games. By gaining promotion for a professional level for the first time in its history, Luzenac, the club of a village of 600 inhabitants in Southern France, became the smallest club in the history of professional football in France. Orléans was the second team to gain promotion to Ligue 2 on 2 May after a 2–0 victory against Paris FC. This marked a return for Orléans in the professional leagues after a twenty-two-years absence.
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Two seasons later, the club was invited to be one of the founder teams of the Football League Third Division North. They won the league in 1923, gaining promotion to the Football League Second Division. However, they stayed there for just one season, finishing second-bottom of the league and being relegated back to the Third Division. After finishing bottom of the division for the second time, Nelson left the Football League in 1931 after failing re-election. They rejoined the Lancashire Combination, and played in the league for the next five seasons, before going bankrupt in 1936 and disbanding for a second time. The club returned to action following the Second World War, and won the Lancashire Combination title in 1950 and 1952. Nelson continued to play in the same league until 1982, when the side achieved a third-placed finish. In the same year, the non-league football system was re-organised, resulting in the formation of the North West Counties Football League. The club was accepted into the league's Third Division, and was transferred to the Second Division in 1987, as a result of the abolition of the third tier.
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Fernandez finished second on the PIOS Order of Merit in 2007 gaining promotion to the Main Tour for the 2007–08 season, although he failed to finish inside the top 64 and was relegated after that season. He has been on and off the Main Tour a few times during his career, failing to make any significant impact each time. He suffered from testicular cancer in 2005 but continued playing while he recovered. His best ranking event display came when he reached the last 16 of the 2003 Welsh Open, defeating opponents including fellow Irishman Fergal O'Brien and Mark King. He qualified for the 1999 World Championship but drew Ronnie O'Sullivan and lost 10–3. He also reached the final qualifying round in 2004, losing 10–8 to Dominic Dale. He was Jamie Burnett's opponent in 2004 UK Championship qualifying when Burnett scored a 148 break, the first ever break in excess of 147 in a professional match. As an amateur, Fernandez reached the final of English Amateur Championship in 2010, losing to Jack Lisowski, playing in the tournament again in 2011 and winning the title, victorious 10–6 in the final over John Whitty. He entered Q-School in 2015 and made it to the final round before losing 4–1 to Rhys Clark.
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On the final day of the season, Everton were one of five clubs in danger of relegation; Everton needed to win their final game, at home to Sunderland, with at least two of the other clubs losing. In front of a crowd of over 51,000 fans at Goodison Park, White scored his first hat-trick in a 4–1 victory; unfortunately for Everton, this was not enough as Burnley, Sheffield United, Grimsby Town and Newcastle United all won, and as a result Everton were relegated from the First Division for the first time since the foundation of the Football League. Everton quickly regained their position in the top flight, running away with the Second Division title, although White made only ten appearances with ten goals. White soon made his mark back in the First Division, with a hat-trick in the second match of the season at Portsmouth's Fratton Park. He contributed 18 goals in 23 league appearances as Everton claimed the Football League title, a year after gaining promotion. By now White was playing as a half-back rather than a forward and in the 1932–33 season he only scored twice from a total of 40 appearances as Everton finished mid-table in the league.
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The origins of Sutherland Sharks are traced back to the founding of Sutherland United SFC in 1930. By 1936, the club had grown markedly leading to a split and formation of the current-day club, albeit under a different name – Casuals Soccer Football Club. In the post-WWII era, the club grew and found success in the St George Football Association but in 1947 they stepped up to the Metropolitan Soccer League (effectively the Sydney 2nd Division, behind only the old NSW Soccer Association 1st Division). The club soon earned its stripes in this highly competitive league winning the title in just their second year and gaining promotion to the heady heights of the 1st Division but disappointingly, financial constraints forced them to let the opportunity pass. It was another 24 years before the club moved into the top flight state league. In 1949 the club changed its name to the more representative Sutherland Shire Casuals SFC, and in 1950 the club acquired a long-term lease on the Seymour Shaw field. However the club did not move permanently to the Miranda ground until 1959, continuing to use Sutherland Oval. In 1955, the club again changed its name to Sutherland Shire Soccer Football Club.
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On the eve of the 2013–14 Championship season, Burnley agreed a deal with Queens Park Rangers for the transfer of Charlie Austin, who had attracted much attention from Premier League teams throughout the summer. With Austin moving out of the club, this gave Vokes his long-awaited chance in the starting eleven, and he formed a striking partnership with Danny Ings and he finished the season with 21 goals in 44 matches helping the Clarets finished 2nd, gaining promotion to the Premier League. He missed the run in after he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament which kept him out until December 2014. He marked his return from injury with a goal against Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup. Vokes played 15 league matches in 2014–15 as Burnley suffered relegation back to the Championship. On 8 August 2015, on the opening day of the 2015–16 Championship season, Vokes scored his first league goal since returning from a knee injury for Burnley against former club Leeds United in a 1–1 draw. Vokes signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with Burnley in January 2016. He scored 16 goals in 46 appearances as Burnley returned to the Premier League as Championship title winners.
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Born 4 May 1978 in Wolverhampton, Perry started his career at Dudley Kingswinford in tier 4 of the English club game. He scored over 270 points for the Midlands team including 52 tries with the highlight of his stay being the 2001-02 season where he was the league's top scorer with 25 tries, helping Dudley Kingswinford to a runners up spot and almost gaining promotion (they lost the playoff match). Perry's point scoring exploits saw him be picked up by another Midlands team, Coventry, whom he played for in National Division One for two seasons, during which time he scored a try in a match against his future club, Bristol. After eleven games for Bristol during the 2005–06 season, Perry was called up into the England A squad. He was given the captaincy for the match against Ireland A. Towards the end of the 2005–06 season, Perry sustained a wrist injury which ruled him out for approximately eight weeks of play, and therefore also put him out of contention to represent England during the summer tests to Australia, for a two-test Cook Cup series. In August 2006, Perry was included in the 2006–07 England Elite Player Squad.
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Phoenix Sports Football Club was formed in 1935 as St. Johns Welling, which later changed its name to Lakeside. They were members of the North Kent League until 1939.Phoenix Sports official website – History Accessed 20 January 2012Kent Invicta Football League – Phoenix Sports Accessed 20 January 2012 After the Second World War the club was renamed Phoenix, as it was seen as rising from the ashes of the previous clubs amid the destruction of the Blitz. They entered the South East London Amateur League in 1948 (their reserves were members of the Sidcup and Dartford Leagues) and in 1951 the club joined the Western Section of the Kent Amateur League, now Kent County Football League, Division Two. They moved up to Division One, finishing runners up twice in the 1950s, and once in the 1970s.Kent County Football League – History Accessed 20 January 2012 The club entered the Spartan League in 1981-82 and competed there until 1991-92. They then returned to the Kent County League Division One West, winning the challenge cup in 1993–94. They won the league in 1999–2000, gaining promotion to the Premier Division, however after two relegations they ended up in Division Two West.
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Waterloo Dock Football Club were established in 1963 and played in Liverpool Business Houses Leagues until the 1969–70 season, winning the Second Division, First Division and Premier Division titles. They joined the Liverpool County Combination in the 1970–71 season, gaining promotion at the first attempt, winning the Second Division championship. This was the start of a 34-year spell in the top flight of the Liverpool County Combination where the club was to win the First Division championship no less than twelve times and finish as runners-up on a further ten occasions. The club's best performance in the FA Vase came in 1985–86 when the club progressed to the 4th round, eventually losing to Warrington Town. The Liverpool County Combination merged with the I Zingari League to form the new Liverpool County Premier League at Step-7 in the National league System for the start of the 2006–07 season and Waterloo Dock have dominated the new league, winning the Premier Division title in each of the first five seasons, although the 2011–12 season saw them lose the title for the first time to Aigburth Peoples Hall when they finished 3rd, their worst league finish since 2001–02.
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After finishing tenth the following year, the club were placed in the newly established Conference South. They were relegated back to the Isthmian League Premier Division at the end of the 2008–09 season, and were relegated again the following season. Season 2010–11 saw the club compete in the Isthmian League Division One South and they missed out on promotion back to the Premier Division by the tightest of margins. Having finished with a club record total of 96 points, they lost out in the title race to Metropolitan Police on goal difference by just one goal, having led the table by two points, going in to the last fixture. As a result, they found themselves having to participate in the end-of-season play- offs, where they lost at home to Dulwich Hamlet who had finished 31 points behind. In 2011–12 they again finished second in Division One South. They won the end-of-season play-offs, defeating Godalming Town in a thrilling semi- final, before beating Dulwich Hamlet 1–0 in the final, and thus gaining promotion to the Premier Division. The 2013-14 season started slowly with just one point from the opening four matches.
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However, despite winning the League Cup in 1936–37, the club did not play again until 1939. After World War II, St Martins joined the Oswestry & District League and won the league without losing a match in 1945–46. They were champions again in 1952–53 and 1954–55. They joined the Whitchurch League in 1955, where they played until it folded in 1972, after which they transferred to Division Three of the West Shropshire League in 1973. They won the Division Three title at the first attempt, also winning the League Cup by beating Premier Division Hanwood Utd 5–1 in the final. After two more successive promotions, the club reached the Premier Division in 1976. Under the management of Andrew Roberts, St Martins FC went through a very successful period, firstly winning the West Shropshire Alliance Premier Division in 1989/90, gaining promotion to the Shropshire County League. Saints won the Syd Roberts, Reg Lawrence and Graham Edwards Memorial Trophies often defeating teams from higher leagues. Saints did reach the League Cup final at Shrewsbury Town FC's Gay Meadow, sadly losing out 1-0 to Belle Vue. Saints only waited a year to return to the Gay Meadow, this time to lift the Shropshire Junior Cup defeating Bishops Castle through a 3-1 victory.
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Born in Carrara, Pasciuti made his senior debuts with Massese in Serie C1. After being sparingly used in his two- year spell he joined Biellese in Serie D. Pasciuti remained in the same division in the following year, appearing with Pisa. In December 2009 he moved to Carpi, also in the fifth level. With the Biancorossi he achieved two promotions, and scored five goals during the 2010–11 season. In the end of 2012–13, he appeared 26 times (22 in the regular season), as his side was promoted to Serie B for the first time ever. On 24 September 2013 Pasciuti made his division debut, starting in a 0–0 home draw against Brescia.Carpi 0–0 Brescia; Lega Serie B, 24 September 2013 On 10 January of the following year he renewed his link, until 2016;Pasciuti fino al 2016 (Pasciuti until 2016) ; Carpi's official website, 10 January 2014 roughly a month later Pasciuti scored his first goal in the second level, netting his side's second of a 4–1 success at Padova.Padova 1–4 Carpi ; Lega Serie B, 1 February 2014 Carpi won the 2014–15 Serie B, gaining promotion to Serie A, meaning Pasciuti had enjoyed four promotions with the club, seeing them rise from the fifth tier of Italian football to the first.
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