Bradford Park Avenue
Full name	Bradford Park Avenue Association Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Avenue ground = Horsfall Stadium
Founded	{{{founded}}}
Chairman	Dr John Dean
Manager	Phil Sharpe
League	Northern Premier League First Division
2005-06	NPL Premier Division, 21st
Home colours Away colours

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The club claims descent from the organisation of the same name that was a former member of the Football League and which went into liquidation in 1974. The new entity, established in 1988, is currently in the Northern Premier League First Division, and plays its home matches at the Horsfall Athletics Stadium, which has a capacity of 5,000. The Northern Premier League First Division is an football league covering the north of England. ...

History

The club was formed in 1863 as the Bradford Football Club. They then became founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union following a dispute between Northern clubs and the Rugby Football Union over the payment of expenses in 1895. They won the Championship in 1903-04 and the Challenge Cup in 1905-06. In 1907, "The Great Betrayal" occurred as the members decided to abandon the Northern Union game (later known as rugby league) and change to soccer based at the Park Avenue ground. The club immediately applied to join the Football League. However, they were not accepted, and instead joined the Southern League (despite being very much a northern team!), filling a gap left by Fulham who had been successful in joining the Football League. A new team Bradford Northern (later renamed Bradford Bulls) was created to take their place in the Northern Union. 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... The Rugby Football League logo The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for rugby league in the United Kingdom. ... The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the rugby union governing body in England. ... The Rugby League Championship was the major professional competition organised by the Rugby Football League in Great Britain. ... The first ever Challenge Cup Final, 1897: Batley(l) vs St Helens(r) The Challenge Cup is a knockout competition for rugby league clubs in Europe. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Rugby league football is a full-contact team sport played by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ... The Football League is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales, and is the oldest such competition in world football. ... Southern League logo The Southern League (currently known under the terms of a sponsorship deal as the British Gas Business Football League) is an English football league for semi-professional and amateur teams, covering South West and South Central England, the Midlands, and parts of Wales. ... Fulham Football Club (FFC) are an English football team based in Fulham, London. ... Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, England. ...

In 1908, they were successfully elected to the Second Division of the Football League. The club was promoted to the First Division in 1913 after finishing as runners-up, and finished in their highest ever league position of 9th at the end of the 1914/15 season. 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football. ... From 1889 until 1992, this was the highest division overall of organized football in England. ...

After WWI the club began a steady decline, being relegated to the Second Division in 1921, and again to the Third Division North in 1922. In 1928 the club finished as Champions, and were promoted back to the Second Division. However, they were relegated again in 1950, and then placed in the Fourth Division after reorganisation in 1958. Though they won promotion to the Third Division in 1961, they were relegated back to the Fourth Division in 1963. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The Third Division North of The Football League was a level in English association football, which ran parallel to Third Division South from 1921 to 1958. ... The Football League Fourth Division or Division Four of The Football League was the fourth-highest division in the English football league system from the 1958-59 season until the creation of the FA Premier League prior to the 1992-93 season. ... From the 1992-93 to the 2003-04 season, the Football League Third Division was the third-highest division of The Football League and the fourth-highest division in the overall English football league system. ...

After several seasons of struggle, they were voted out of the Football League in 1970 and replaced by Cambridge United. The club dropped into the Northern Premier League, and financial problems meant they had to sell Park Avenue in 1973 and share with neighbours Bradford City. However, the sale did not solve the difficulties, and the club went into liquidation in 1974. They were immediately re-formed as a Sunday league club. In 1987, the club played a fixture at the still-standing Park Avenue ground. Cambridge United Football Club are a professional football club from Cambridge, England. ... Bradford City Association Football Club are an English football team based at Valley Parade, otherwise known as The Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), due to stadium sponsorship in Bradford. ... Sunday league football is a term used in England to describe those association football leagues which play on Sunday, as opposed to the more usual Saturday. ...

The club returned to Saturday football at the start of the 1988/9 season, when they joined the West Riding County Amateur Football League. They then joined the Central Midlands League. The club moved to the North West Counties League the following season. In the meanwhile, the club had been playing matches at various rugby league grounds (including Bramley and Batley). The West Riding County Amateur Football League is a football competition based in Yorkshire, England, currently sponsored by the Mumtaz Restaurant. ... The Central Midlands League is an English association football league covering the northeast_central part of England. ... The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the north west of England. ...

In 1995 the club won the North West Counties League, re-joining the Northern Premier League, as well as moving to the Horsfall Athletics Stadium. At the start of the 2004/5 season they became founder members of the Conference North, though they were relegated back to the Northern Premier League (the seventh level) at the end of the season. The Football Conferences logo Conference North (often referred to as Nationwide North for sponsorship reasons) is a division of the Football Conference in England, taking its place immediately below the Conference National. ...

The club reached the FA Cup quarter finals in 1912/3, 1919/20 and 1945/6. Since re-forming, they have reached the first round proper once, in 2003/4. Their best performance in the League Cup was to reach a 3rd round replay in 1962/3. Note: for the full results of all FA Cup finals, see FA Cup Final The FA Cup - this is the fourth trophy, in use since 1992, and identical in design to the third trophy introduced in 1911. ... The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition. ...

Since dropping into non-league football, the club's best FA Trophy performance has been to reach the 4th round in 1998/9. In the FA Vase, the club reached the 2nd round in 1994/5. The Football Association Challenge Trophy is an English football competition for clubs playing in the Football Conference, Southern League, Isthmian League, and Northern Premier League. ... The Football Association Challenge Vase is an annual football competition for teams playing in the lower regional leagues of England. ...

Colours

The traditional colours of Bradford (PA) were red, amber and black which were inherited from the original Bradford RFC and incidentally retained by Bradford & Bingley RUFC and Bradford Bulls RLFC who all claim common genealogy. The fact that red, amber and black (with white) has been worn by three of the city's senior football clubs (namely Bradford (Park Avenue) AFC, Bradford RFC / Bradford & Bingley RUFC and Bradford Northern RLFC / Bradford Bulls who were all descended from the original Bradford FC which was based at Park Avenue) has made many people assume that these were the de facto sporting colours of Bradford. Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club based in the city of Bradford, England. ... The larger City of Bradford Metropolitan District includes other settlements in the surrounding area. ...

Indeed the colours have also been used by other sports organisations in Bradford such as cycling, hockey and athletics principally in the style of a red, amber and black band on a white shirt (as typically worn by Bradford Northern and as an away kit by Bradford (PA)). Red, amber and black are also the historic colours of Bradford Cricket Club formed in 1836. The Cricket Club don't play at the Park Avenue any more,Wibsey Park Chapel Cricket Club currently occupy the delapidated ground with relatively little being changed. One stand is now referred to as the Football End in reference to those bygone eras. Hopes are still alive for Bradford PA to move back eventually to their 'ancestral home', but this is unlikely with a development of housing going on the old football pitch and terracing of the cricket ground. The Wibsey Park Chapel Cricket Club was formed in 1887 as Park Chapel Cricket Club and joined the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League in 1908 where it played until 1998. ...

Bradford FC had been formed in 1863 by former pupils of Bramham College and in 1880 joined Bradford CC at Park Avenue. However it is not known whether one club took the colours of the other at this time. Bradford did not achieve city status until 1897 and to that extent red, amber and black could well have been associated with Bradford prior to the granting of the arms and certainly well before Bradford's city status.

In 1911 Bradford changed its colours to green and white following the appointment of former Celtic player, Tom Maley, brother of Willie Maley, who also played at Celtic before becoming their first manager, and this may also have been a move to exploit the local catchment area which had many residents of Irish origin. In so doing Avenue became the only club to have worn green and white in the English First Division, between 1914 and 1921. Avenue reverted to red, amber and black with white in 1924 but then revived green and white between 1958 and 1967. The reformed Bradford Park Avenue has adopted green and white since 1988. Avenue's club crest was the 1907 version of the Bradford coat of arms and this has been used by the reformed club also even though it was replaced by the municipal authority in 1974.

Bradford's traditional rivals Manningham RFC and their successors Bradford City have worn claret and amber and whereas Bradford has tended to wear hoops (with a number of notable exceptions) the City club has opted for stripes. Bradford City also adopted the (1907) Bradford coat of arms as its crest until 1966. Bradford City Association Football Club are an English football team based at Valley Parade, otherwise known as The Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), due to stadium sponsorship in Bradford. ...

After the change from white shirts to green shirts over summer 2006, there has been talk around the club of changing the colours back to something along the lines of red amber and black during the club's centenary season.

Nickname

The club has always been referred to as 'Avenue'. In 1966 Bradford introduced its own cartoon mascot in response to the 'City Gent' of Bradford City at Valley Parade. 'Avenue 'Arry' is a cartoon of a supporter with hat and scarf waving a rattle. Avenue did not use the character to the same extent as Bradford City exploited the 'City Gent' but it has been revived by the reformed club. Bradford City Association Football Club is a football team based at the Bradford and Bingley Stadium (formerly known as Valley Parade) in Bradford, England. ... Valley Parade, currently known under a naming-rights contract as Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), is the home stadium of Bradford City football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. ...

In the late 1980s a Bradford City supporters' publication 'Bernard of the Bantams' introduced a cartoon figure 'Boring Stan the Avenue Fan' featuring an old Bradford supporter suffering a mid-life crisis. Bradford City supporters have contemptuously referred to followers of the reformed Bradford Park Avenue club as 'Stans' but the nickname has not been adopted by the club itself. Bradford City Association Football Club is a football team based at the Bradford and Bingley Stadium (formerly known as Valley Parade) in Bradford, England. ...

Famous Players and Managers

• Wayne Benn - The only player post war to make over 400 apperences for the club

• Vic Buckingham (went on to manage Ajax Amsterdam, Sheffield Wednesday, Fulham F.C. and FC Barcelona)

• Jack Crayston (went on to play for Arsenal and England)

• Ron Greenwood (went on to manage West Ham United and England)

• Derek Hawksworth (went on to play 255 games for Sheffield United).

• Kevin Hector (a prolific goalscorer who also played for Derby County and England).

• Paddy Kenny (went on to play for Sheffield United and the Republic of Ireland)

• Neil Redfearn Journey Man Footballer

• Cyril Robinson (was part of the Blackpool team that won the famous 1953 "Matthews Final")

• Jimmy Scoular (a Scotland international who had played with distinction for Portsmouth and Newcastle United; after his spell as Avenue's player-manager he went on to take Cardiff City into Europe, where they beat Real Madrid in a famous victory at Ninian Park).

• Len Shackleton (went on to play for Newcastle United, Sunderland and England)

• Donald Simpson Bell (the only English professional footballer to be awarded the Victoria Cross)

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Fans Favourites

Mark "Willy" Wilson - Journey Man Non League Footballer in his Third Spell At Club

Lee "Bambi" Connor - Another Journey Man Non League Footballer in his Second Spell At Club

Paul "Teflon" Allen - Journey Man Goalkeeper hero of 1991 County Cup Final. Lost count on how many Spells He Has Had At Club

Managers

• Jim Mackay (1989-1993)
• Gordon Raynor (1993-1997)
• Trevor Storton (1997-2004)
• Carl Shutt (2004-2005)
• Gary Brook (2005-2006)
• Phil Sharpe (2006 - Present)

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Name note

Though officially called Bradford A.F.C., Park Avenue (the location of the club's original stadium) is nearly always appended to their name to avoid confusion with Bradford City A.F.C. Bradford City Association Football Club are an English football team based at Valley Parade, otherwise known as The Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), due to stadium sponsorship in Bradford. ...

Current Squad

From official website [1]; correct as of 4th February 2007

No. Position Player GK Piotr Skiba GK Paul Allen DF Stephen Ball DF Richard Chattoe DF Chris Clarke DF Lee Connor DF Danny McLaughlin DF Steven Hollingsworth DF Gary Shaw MF David Cooke MF Craig Farrand MF Liam Flynn MF Neil Grayston MF Tony Lennon MF Paul Helliwell MF Reuben Wiggins-Thomas MF Andrew Shuttleworth MF Alex Callery MF Mark Wilson FW Tom Greaves FW Jamie Longley FW Mark Ward FW Ryan Senior FW Luke Sherman FW Danny Davidson FW Scott Jackson

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Trivia

• Bradford AFC was chosen as a name because Bradford City, upon conversion from Rugby Union, had registered both the names "Bradford City" and "Bradford United", just in case Bradford Rugby Club decided to convert to Association Football too, in order to ensure that they would not be able to have a "normal" name

External links

• Official site
• Complete Records of Bradford Park Avenue's League Positions
• http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/columns/content/ground/56814.html