Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and is managed by Mark Hughes.
Desborough is a town in Northamptonshire, England, lying in the Ise Valley between Market Harborough and Kettering. It was an industrial centre for weaving and shoe-making in the 19th century and had a long association with the Co-operative movement. Desborough today is a residential centre: new homes and industry are being developed to the north of the old town.
Stephen George Bull is an English former professional footballer who is best remembered for his 13-year spell at Wolverhampton Wanderers. He played there from 1986 until his retirement from playing in 1999, and holds the club's goalscoring record with 306 goals, which included 18 hat-tricks for the club.
John Grattan Hendrie is a Scottish former professional association footballer who played on the right wing or in attack.
Andrew Stuart Murray McCall is a professional football coach and former player. He is assistant manager at Sheffield United.
Dean "Deano" Windass is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played spells at Bradford City and contributed to his hometown team Hull City's promotion to the Premier League in 2008.
Peter Lee Thorne is an English retired professional footballer, who played as a striker.
Robert Whittingham was an English footballer who played as an inside-forward for various clubs, mainly prior to the First World War. He played in the Football League for Stoke, Blackpool, Bradford City, and Chelsea. He helped Chelsea to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1911–12. He was the younger brother of fellow footballer Sam Whittingham.
Gregory Stephen Abbott is an English football coach and former player who is the head of recruitment of Carlisle United.
Albert John Whitehurst was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Bradford City, Liverpool, Rochdale, Stoke and Tranmere Rovers.
Richard Bond was an English footballer who played outside right. He was capped eight times by England and spent the vast majority of his playing career at Bradford City where he played more than 300 games.
John George Peart was an English footballer who played centre forward for 13 different teams, in a career which spanned World War I. After he retired he became a football manager until his death in 1948.
Francis O'Rourke was a Scottish international footballer who played as a centre forward in Scotland for Airdrieonians and in England for Bradford City.
James Robert McIlvenny was an English professional footballer who was a forward spending most of his career at Bradford City.
Arthur Rigby was an English professional footballer who played as inside left or outside left. He won an FA Cup winners medal with Blackburn Rovers and five caps for England.
Charles Moore was an English footballer who spent his entire professional career with Bradford City playing 339 league games.
William Hibbert was a professional footballer who played as centre forward and was capped once for England.
Norman Joseph Winn was an English footballer who was an outside left.
Bradford City Association Football Club—also known informally as Bradford City—are an English football club founded in Bradford in 1903 to introduce the sport to the West Riding of Yorkshire, which until then had been almost entirely inclined towards rugby league. Before they had even played their first game, City were elected to the Football League to replace Doncaster Rovers in Division Two, and took over the Valley Parade stadium, which has been their permanent home ground ever since. The club won the Division Two title in 1908 and the FA Cup in 1911, both under the management of Peter O'Rourke, before they were relegated from Division One in 1921–22.
