Bangor City
Logo of the Bangor City F.C.
Full name	Bangor City Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Citizens
Founded	1876 (as Bangor F.C.)
Ground	Farrar Road Bangor Gwynedd
Capacity	2,200 (800 seated)
Chairman
Manager
League	League of Wales
2005-06	League of Wales, 9th
Home colours Away colours

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The club was founded in 1876 as Bangor F.C., and took its present name in 1923, and plays at the Farrar Road Stadium, Bangor, where their ground accommodates 2200 spectators (800 seated). 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Farrar Road Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bangor, Wales. ... Bangor, in north Wales, is one of the smallest cities in the United Kingdom. ...

The teams' first choice strip is Royal blue shirts, white shorts and white socks. The second choice strip is Varsity red shirts, white shorts and white socks.

The club was also duped in to thinking they had signed the next Italian football legend - Alessandro Sarreli. He duped the club, members, staff and fans in to lending him money ^{[citation needed]}.

History

Bangor City F.C. is one of Wales' older football clubs, and has an illustrious history of competition in Europe. They were founder members of the North Wales Coast League in 1893, the Welsh National League in 1921, the North Wales Combination in 1930, the Welsh League (North) in 1935, the Northern Premier League in 1968, the Alliance Premier League in 1979, and in 1992 the League of Wales.

In the 1961/62 season, Bangor City won the Welsh Cup, and consequently were entered in the European Cup Winners' Cup for the first time. In the first round, Bangor were drawn against the Italian Cup winners, Napoli, at the time one of Europe's greatest football teams. A thrashing was confidently expected. In the first leg, played at Farrar Road, unexpectedly Bangor won 2-0; three weeks later, in front of a crowd of 80,000 in Naples, the result was 3-1 in Napoli's favour. Under modern rules, Bangor would have progressed under the "away goals" rule, but at the time the tie was drawn 3-3 and a playoff had to be played, at Arsenal F.C.'s Highbury Stadium, in London (this was the first ECWC tie played at Highbury), and this time AS Napoli won 2-1, scoring the winner seven minutes from the end of the match, to put an end to Bangor's dreams for the moment. The Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams from Wales and, in the past, neighbouring parts of England. ... The Cup Winners Cup was a football club competition between the winners of the European domestic cup competitions. ... The Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) is a Italian footballs annual cup competition. ... SSC Napoli was an Italian football club based in Naples. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ...

In 1985 Bangor City were back in the ECWC, in the first round drawn against the Norwegian cup winners, Fredrikstad. The first leg in Norway was a 1-1 draw, while the return leg in Bangor was a 0-0 draw, resulting in Bangor progressing to the second round, where they were drawn against the mighty Spanish side Atlético Madrid. Atlético were expected to win easily, but in the event the first leg in Bangor was only won 2-0; in the return leg in Madrid, Bangor won much admiration with a dogged defence which only allowed Atlético one more goal, and Bangor saved an Atlético penalty kick. Club Atlético de Madrid is a Spanish football club based in Madrid. ...

In 1994 as League of Wales Champions, Bangor City entered the UEFA Cup. They were drawn against the Icelandic champions, IA Akranes, and were seriously hampered by UEFA's ruling that a team could only contain three foreigners -- many of Bangor's team were English, and despite some creative genealogy it was not possible to field a full-strength Welsh side. Akranes (fielding three Yugoslav players!) won the leg in Bangor by 2-1 (the match was played in the close season when Bangor hadn't played a competitive match in three months), while Bangor lost the match in Iceland by 2-0. The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). ... Íþróttabandalag Akraness is an Icelandic sports club founded in 1946 and based in the town of Akranes, north Iceland. ...

In 1995 Bangor City retained the League of Wales championship, and this time drew the Polish champions Widzew Łódź in the preliminary round of the UEFA Cup. Lodz were an extremely powerful side, having beaten Liverpool F.C., Juventus F.C. and Manchester United F.C. in earlier campaigns, and quite simply outclassed Bangor City, winning 4-0 in Bangor and 1-0 in Lodz. On a lighter note, scores of Lodz and Bangor supporters joined each other after the match and proceeded to drink dry every pub in Bangor High Street! Widzew? ... Liverpool Football Club are a football club based in Liverpool, in the north west of England. ... Juventus Football Club (Latin: youth, IPA: ; Also known as Juventus Turin, Juventus Torino, Juventus FC, or simply Juve) is a football club from Turin, Italy. ... Manchester United Football Club are a world-famous English football club, based at Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester. ...

In 1998 Bangor were back in the Cup Winners' Cup, and were drawn against the Finnish side FC Haka. Unfortunately between winning the Welsh Cup and playing Haka, one of Bangor's periodic bouts of boardroom shenanigans had led to the departure of the manager and most of the team, so new manager John Hulse had the impossible task of putting together a completely new side, a week before the start of the Welsh football season (and three-quarters of the way through the Finnish football season). Unsurprisingly Bangor were well beaten, 2-0 at home, and 1-0 in Finland. FC Haka is a Finnish football club, based in the town of Valkeakoski. ...

The club is now managed by former Peterborough United Manager Steve Bleasdale. Steve Bleo Bleasdale is an English football coach/manager. ...

Biggest victories and losses

• Biggest win: not recorded.
• Biggest defeat: 0-12 v. Everton Reserves in the 1930s.
• Biggest League of Wales win: 9-0 v. Haverfordwest County in 1994.
• Biggest League of Wales defeat: 0-6 v. Holywell Town in 1992.

External links

Bangor City home page

The Independent Bangor City Football Club Historical Website