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Waverley F.C. was an English
association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
club based in
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during the
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. Founded in 1889 as an offshoot of Waverley Cricket Club, they were founding members of the second division of the
Western Football League The Western Football League is a association football, football league in South West England, covering Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, western Dorset, parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The league's current main sponsor is Jewson, so it ...
(known at the time as the Bristol & District League), and finished bottom of the table in both the 1893–94 and 1894–95 seasons. They moved into the South Bristol & District League in the summer of 1895. Their home ground was behind the Talbot Inn on Wells Road in Knowle. The club appointed local member of parliament
Edward Stock Hill Colonel Sir Edward Stock Hill (13 January 1834 – 17 December 1902) was a British shipowner and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South from 1886 to 1900. Career Hill wa ...
as president upon their formation, and a year later fellow MP
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was given the role of vice-president.


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