Netherfield F.C. (1885)
| Founded | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 1891 |
| Ground | Colwick |
| Secretary | G. S. Christie[1] |
Netherfield Football Club was an association football club from Nottingham, England.
History
[edit]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
[edit]The club's ground was in the village of Colwick.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Alcock, Charles (1888). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press. p. 124.
- ^ "Football". Nottingham Evening Post: 4. 4 January 1886.
- ^ "Meeting of the Notts Football Association". Evening Post. 18 September 1886.
- ^ "Notts Junior Cup". Sheffield & Rotherham Independent: 7. 5 March 1888.
- ^ "Football". North Star: 4. 29 October 1888.
- ^ "Newark Cup First Round". Evening Post: 3. 24 November 1888.
- ^ "Notts Football Association". Nottinghamshire Guardian: 3. 7 September 1889.
- ^ "Mansfield Charity Cup Semi-Final". Evening Post: 3. 7 March 1891.
- ^ "Football". Nottingham Evening Post: 4. 4 January 1886.
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