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Weymouth F.C., also known as "The Terras", are a Dorset-based English football club based in the town of Weymouth, who play in the Conference National. The Terras spent many years in the top level of non-League football (initially the Southern League, then later in the Football Conference) before a period of decline. In recent years they were widely regarded as among the biggest underachievers in non-League football, but defied this reputation in the 2005-06 season by winning the Conference South championship. Image File history File links Weymouthfc. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... The Wessex Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Weymouth, England. ... Rungnado May Day Stadium is the worlds largest football stadium. ... Jason Tindall (15 November 1977 in London, England) is an English football player, currently player/manager at Weymouth Categories: | | | | | | ... Conference National (currently billed as the Blue Square Premier for sponsorship reasons) [1] is the top division of the Football Conference. ... The new Wembley Stadium was completed in time for the 2006-07 seasons FA Cup Final. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Kit_body_darkbluerightsash. ... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dÉ”.sÉ™t], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() â€“ on the European continent() â€“ in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 927 AD Area - Total 130... The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... Weymouth is a town in Dorset, England, situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast. ... Conference National (currently billed as the Blue Square Premier for sponsorship reasons) [1] is the top division of the Football Conference. ... For other uses, see Southern Football League (disambiguation). ... The Football Conference is a football league at the top of the National League System of non-League football in England. ... Conference South (currently billed as Blue Square Southern for sponsorship reasons) is one of the second divisions of the Football Conference in England, taking its place immediately below the Conference National. ...

Background

The team is currently managed by Jason Tindall, after Garry Hill left the club by mutual consent in January 2007, while the club is controlled by Mel Bush. Garry Hill is the current manager of the association football team Weymouth F.C.. He formely had successful spells at Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. and Hornchurch F.C.. He left Hornchurch shortly after the club went into administration. ...

In the 2005-6 season, the club briefly reached national attention after holding former European Cup winners Nottingham Forest to a 1-1 draw in the FA Cup. Forest won the replay 2-0, in front of 6,600 fans at the Wessex Stadium and a live Sky TV audience. Champions League Logo The UEFA Champions League is an annual international inter-club football competition between Europes most successful clubs, regarded as the most prestigious club trophy in the sport. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly two companies, Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, which merged) is a company that operates the most popular subscription television service in the UK and Ireland. ...

The club averages attendances of just under 2,000 for league matches (based on 2006/7 season figures supplied by the club), amongst the highest gates in English non-League football.

The location of the club's Wessex Stadium on the south coast of England is such that they rarely have home matches frozen off even when other non-league grounds in south-east England are unplayable. The club has a great rivalry with its more famous neighbours Yeovil Town, although it has been many years since the two clubs last met competitively, with the sides moving in different directions. The Wessex Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Weymouth, England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() â€“ on the European continent() â€“ in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 927 AD Area - Total 130... Yeovil Town F.C. are an English football team based in Yeovil, Somerset. ...

History

Weymouth Football Club were founded in 1890 and played their first game on 24 September of that year. Nicknamed 'The Terras' almost immediately, due to their terracotta strip, the team won the Dorset Junior Cup for the first three seasons, becoming a senior club as the team rose in stature. Founder members of the Dorset League, Weymouth joined the Western League in 1907-1908. The club embraced full-time professionalism in 1923 after winning the Western League, joining the Southern League in the process. By 1928-9, with debts mounting, the club withdrew from the Southern League to become amateur once again. 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The Second World War saw an end to football in Weymouth as the Recreation Ground was requisitioned for the War effort in 1939. The club reformed in 1947 on a semi-professional basis, and soon achieved promotion back into the Southern League. In successive seasons 1964-65 and 1965-66, The Terras were Southern League champions, and they share with Telford United and Yeovil the distinction of playing all twenty seasons in the Premier Division prior to the re-organization of the league structure at that time. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Telford United F.C. were an English football team based in Telford, Shropshire. ...

Weymouth have enjoyed considerable FA Cup success since first entering in 1893-1894. They first reached the national stages in 1905-1906 when they were thrashed 1-12 by Gainsborough Trinity In 1949 they lost 0-4 at Old Trafford to Manchester United in the Third Round proper, then in 1962 they reached the Fourth Round proper where they lost 0-2 at Deepdale to Preston North End. 2005 saw the team hold former European Champions Nottingham Forest to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground, before losing 2-0 in the replay. In the 2006-2007 FA Cup Weymouth held Bury to a 2-2 draw at home, in front of BBC cameras in what would be the first ever match to be broadcast live on free to air television at Weymouth. Gainsborough Trinity are an English football club, based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. ... Old Trafford (given the nickname The Theatre of Dreams by Sir Bobby Charlton) is a football stadium in the Greater Manchester borough of Trafford, and is the home of Manchester United F.C.. The ground has been Uniteds permanent home since 1910, bar an eight year absence from 1941... Manchester United Football Club are a world-famous English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and are one of the most popular sports clubs in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide. ... Deepdale is a stadium in Preston, England, the home of Preston North End F.C. and Englands National Football Museum. ... Preston North End Football Club are an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the second tier of English league football, The Championship. ... The City Ground is a football stadium in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, on the banks of the River Trent. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Bury Football Club are an English association football team based in Bury, Lancashire. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GBÂ£4 billion. ...

Famous Weymouth players include: Graham Roberts and Peter Guthrie (both Tottenham), Andy Townsend (Southampton, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough and Éire), Shaun Teale (Motherwell, Aston Villa), Tony Agana (Watford, Sheffield United) and Tom Jones (Aberdeen). Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Darren Campbell was briefly a Weymouth player. Graham Paul Roberts (born 3 July 1959 in Southampton) is a retired English footballer who played for numerous clubs in a defensive role. ... Andrew David Townsend (born July 23, 1963, Maidstone) was a professional footballer who played in two World Cups for the Republic of Ireland and is now a television pundit. ... Shaun Teale (born March 10, 1964 in Southport) is a former English footballer, most famous for his stint with Aston Villa. ... Darren Campbell (born September 12, 1973) is an English sprint athlete. ...

A move from the club's town centre ground to the new Wessex Stadium in 1987 brought initial success, but the club entered somewhat of a slump after relegation from the Conference, see-sawing between the Premier and Southern Divisions of the Southern League ^[1].

Journalist and author Ian Ridley took control of the club in 2003-2004 and his appointment of former Millwall, Leicester and Birmingham striker Steve Claridge as manager brought a new optimism. Within a season they had turned the club around from relegation fodder to just missing out on promotion to the Conference. Gates also increased from around 500 to 1200. The arrival on the board of Martyn Harrison and his decision to put the club in the hands of his company Hollybush Hotels as well as interference in playing matters prompted Ridley to leave in September 2004. Harrison sacked Claridge within a month. Millwall Football Club are an English professional football team based at the New Den Stadium in Bermondsey, South East London. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) are an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ... Birmingham City Football Club are an English football club based in Birmingham, in the heart of the West Midlands. ... Steve Claridge (born 10 April 1966) is an English football player, pundit and coach. ...

Harrison was to appoint Steve Johnson - the brother of Gary Johnson - as manager in November 2004 prompting a huge-turnover in playing staff including the departure of star striker Lee Phillips on a free transfer to Exeter. When the team dropped down the league Johnson was sacked by Harrison in March 2005 with Garry Hill taking over. The club won automatic promotion to the Conference in May 2006 but at a heavy price with large loans from Harrison to meet soaring wage bills of around £20,000 a week and a full-time regime. Gary Johnson (born September 28, 1955) is a British football manager. ... Lee Phillips hails from Remis, Scotland. ... Garry Hill is the current manager of the association football team Weymouth F.C.. He formely had successful spells at Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. and Hornchurch F.C.. He left Hornchurch shortly after the club went into administration. ...

At the club's 2005 AGM, Harrison confirmed plans, pending local authority approval, to re-develop the Wessex Stadium, a scheme funded by selling the current ground to the Asda supermarket chain. This now looks very unlikely with local planners opposed to such a deal. Harrison is now looking at moving to another site and developing leisure facilities on the current land. Coincidentally, Asda's current base in Weymouth is on the site of the old Recreation Ground which Weymouth left to move to the Wessex Stadium in 1987, at a time when 32 years had gone by since a Football League club had built a new stadium. ASDA is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom offering food, clothing and general merchandise products. ...

In January 2007, Harrison announced that in order to guarantee the long-term financial future of the club, the entire first team had been transfer listed, and the management team of Hill and Kevin Hales had left the club by mutual consent. Days later, it was announced that Tindall had been appointed player-manager, with Roy O'Brien appointed player-coach, and the squad had been taken off the transfer list. Kevin Hales (born 13 January 1961) is a football coach, currently working at Rushden & Diamonds. ... Roy OBrien (born November 27, 1974) is an Irish professional footballer currently playing for Dorchester in the Conference South. ...

They finished 11th in the Conference National in 2006/7. On 20th June 2007, Mel Bush, Tindall's father-in-law, was confirmed as the club's new owner, although Harrison had personally cleared all of the club's debts.

Managers

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Honours

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Squad

Club Officials

Players

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