Netherfield F.C. (1885)

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Netherfield
Founded1885
Dissolved1891
GroundColwick
SecretaryG. S. Christie [1]

Netherfield Football Club was an association football club from Nottingham, England.

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History

The first recorded reference to the club is from 1885, [2] and it was admitted to the Nottinghamshire Football Association for the 1886–87 season. [3] The club reached the semi-final of the Nottinghamshire Junior Cup in 1887–88, losing 1–0 to Stanton Hill in Mansfield. [4]

Off the back of this minor success, the club joined the Football Association for the 1888–89 season, and entered the 1888–89 FA Cup qualifying rounds. The club drew a bye in the first round, but scratched to Cleethorpes in the second. [5]

The club's pretensions to senior status were laid bare the following month, when hammered 5–0 at Grantham Rovers in the Newark Cup; [6] the sobering effect of this was that the club did not enter any of the local competitions in 1889–90. [7] The last record of the club is an 8–1 defeat at the original Mansfield Town in the Mansfield Charity Cup in March 1891. [8]

Ground

The club's ground was in the village of Colwick. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Alcock, Charles (1888). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press. p. 124.
  2. ↑ "Football". Nottingham Evening Post: 4. 4 January 1886.
  3. ↑ "Meeting of the Notts Football Association". Evening Post. 18 September 1886.
  4. ↑ "Notts Junior Cup". Sheffield & Rotherham Independent: 7. 5 March 1888.
  5. ↑ "Football". North Star: 4. 29 October 1888.
  6. ↑ "Newark Cup First Round". Evening Post: 3. 24 November 1888.
  7. ↑ "Notts Football Association". Nottinghamshire Guardian: 3. 7 September 1889.
  8. ↑ "Mansfield Charity Cup Semi-Final". Evening Post: 3. 7 March 1891.
  9. ↑ "Football". Nottingham Evening Post: 4. 4 January 1886.


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