Full name | Emley Association Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Pewits [1] | ||
Founded | 2005 | ||
Ground | Welfare Ground, Emley | ||
Capacity | 2,000 (305 seated) [2] | ||
Chairman | Andrew Painten | ||
Manager | Richard Tracey | ||
League | Northern Counties East League Premier Division | ||
2022–23 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division, 3rd of 20 | ||
Emley Association Football Club is a football club based in Emley, West Yorkshire, England. Known as AFC Emley from 2005 to 2019, they are currently members of Northern Counties East League Premier Division and play at the Welfare Ground. They are nicknamed The Pewits.
The original Emley club were founded in 1903 and were members of the Yorkshire League and Northern Counties East League, before winning promotion to the Northern Premier League in 1989. In 2000 new ground grading regulations introduced by the Northern Premier League forced Emley to relocate to Belle Vue in Wakefield, although the reserve team continued to play at the Welfare Ground in Emley. In 2002 the club was renamed Wakefield & Emley, and when the reserve team (which still played in Emley) was disbanded in 2005, supporters of the original club decided to establish a new club based in Emley under the name A.F.C. Emley. [3] The following year Wakefield & Emley was renamed Wakefield severing all ties with Emley [4] and remained in the Northern Premier League until disbanding in 2014. [5]
For a more detailed history of the original Emley AFC see Wakefield F.C..
A new Emley club was established in 2005 joined Division One of the West Yorkshire League for the 2005–06 season. [6] After finishing third in their first season, they were promoted to Division One of the Northern Counties East League. [6] In 2014 the club rejected a merger with the Wakefield club. [7] In 2015–16 they finished fourth in Division One, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. After beating Penistone Church 1–0 in the semi-finals, they lost 4–3 on penalties to Bottesford Town in the final after a 1–1 draw. Striker Ashley Flynn finished the season with 73 goals, a league record. [8] In 2016–17 the club finished third, missing out on automatic promotion on goal difference; they went on to lose 3–1 to Penistone Church in the play-off semi-finals.
In March 2019 it was announced that the club would be renamed Emley A.F.C. from the start of the 2019–20 season, five years after the original club was dissolved and in 2022 Emley were officially reunited with the original clubs' history and honours which was ratified by the FA and football authorities. [9] [10] [11] The club were transferred to Division One North of the North West Counties League for the 2019–20 season. They were fourth in Division One North with games in hand on two clubs above them by mid-March 2020, but the season was the abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were subsequently transferred back to Division One of the Northern Counties East League for the 2020–21 season and were top of the league when the season was abandoned in February 2021. In May 2021 the club were promoted to the Premier Division based on their results in the two abandoned seasons. In 2022–23 they won the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup, beating Maltby Main 2–0 in the final.
The 2023–24 season saw Emley win the NCEL Premier Division title and promotion to the Northern Premier League.
The club plays at the Welfare Ground in Emley. It has a capacity of 2,000, of which 1,000 is covered and 330 seated. [12] The ground is shared with the local cricket club and has three permanent stands; the Warburton End, which consists of a small terrace and uncovered hard standing behind one goal; the Main stand, which has a small uncovered terrace section near the dugouts, as well as housing the clubs offices, changing rooms and sports bar; and the Richard Hirst Stand (also known as The Shed), a low covered terrace behind the other goal. During the football season, a fence is erected along the cricket field side.
Emley have a local rivalry with Golcar United in the 'Huddersfield derby'. [13] as well a cross county rivalry with South Yorkshire based Penistone Church. [14]
Position | Name | Source |
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Manager | Richard Tracey | [15] |
Assistant Manager | Steve Nicholson | |
Coaches | Ben Walker | |
Richard Batley | ||
Goalkeeping Coach | David Walsh | |
Assistant goalkeeping coach | Chris Brown | |
Physio | John Mason | |
Academy U21 manager | Dom Webster | |
Academy U18 manager | Omar Sinclair |
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