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Coventry Alvis F.C.
Coventry Alvis Football Club is a football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Alvis Sports and Social Club. History The club was established as the works team of the Alvis Car and Engineering Company and joined the Coventry Combination in 1928.Alvis – the beginning Coventry Alvis F.C. They left the league at the end of the 1934–35 season, reappearing in Division Two of the Coventry Works League in 1937, and by the early 1940s the club had been promoted to Division One, which they won in 1942–43. After being inactive between 1944 and 1950, they returned to Division Two of the league. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017–18 Midland Football League
The 2017–18 Midland Football League season was the 4th in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England. Premier Division The Premier Division featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with five new clubs: * Bromsgrove Sporting, promoted from Division One * Haughmond, promoted from the West Midlands (Regional) League * Rugby Town, relegated from the Northern Premier League * South Normanton Athletic, promoted from the East Midlands Counties League * Worcester City, voluntarily demoted from the National League North League table Stadia and locations Division One Division One featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with five new clubs. *Two clubs relegated from the Premier Division: ** Brocton **Walsall Wood *Two clubs promoted from Division Two: ** Coventry Alvis, with a name change from Alvis Sporting Club ** Paget Rangers *Plus: ** Ilkeston Town, new club formed after Ilkeston folded Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football Clubs Established In 1928
Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose, usually as volunteers * Non profit association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose without any profit interest *Collaboration, the act of working together Association in various fields of study *Association (archaeology), the close relationship between objects or contexts. * Association (astronomy), combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures *Association (chemistry) *Association (ecology), a type of ecological community *Genetic association, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur *Association (object-oriented programming), defines a relationship between classes of objects *Association (psychology), a connection between two or more concep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Clubs In The West Midlands (county)
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Southam United F
Southam () is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England, located about east-southeast of Leamington Spa. In the 2021 census, the population of Southam was 8,114. History Southam was a Royal manor until AD 998, when Ethelred the Unready granted it to Earl Leofwine. When Coventry Priory was founded in 1043, Leofwine's son Leofric, Earl of Mercia granted Southam to it. The Domesday Book records the manor as "''Sucham''". The Priory, which in the 12th century became the first Coventry Cathedral, kept Southam until the 16th century when it surrendered all its estates to the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Southam developed at the intersection of several roads: the main road between Coventry and Oxford (now the A423 road), the main road from Warwick to Northampton via Daventry, and the ancient drovers' road known as Welsh Road. In 1227, the monks of Coventry Priory were granted a market charter for their manor at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finham
Finham is a civil parish and suburb of Coventry and is known to have an intricate cultural and linguistic history . It is Located in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands, England located on the border of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county and Warwick District. It lies approximately south of Coventry city centre, north-east of the centre of Kenilworth and north-east of the centre of Warwick. Historically located entirely within the parish of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, Stoneleigh, the majority of the residences in Finham were transferred to the jurisdiction of Coventry City Council in 1974 as part of the Local Government Act 1972, local government reorganisation in 1974, though the parts of Finham that lie south of Green Lane and Howes Lane remain in the ceremonial county of Warwickshire. Finham shares the area and road of Green Lane along its northern boundary on the A45 road, A45 with the suburb of Stivichall, Styvechale/Stivichall, and part of its southeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butts Park Arena
Butts Park Arena is a multi-use sports stadium in Spon End, Coventry, England. Its main use is as a rugby stadium (both union and league). It is the home ground for Coventry R.F.C. (since its opening) and was the home of Midlands Hurricanes (who moved there for the start of the 2004–05 season as Coventry Bears). It was also formerly the home ground of the Coventry Jets, an American football team. From the 2017–18 season, the stadium is also the home of Coventry United, a non league football club and their Ladies team who play in the second tier FA Women's Championship. The stadium has also hosted the local varsity day matches between Coventry University and the University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of .... The stadium The stadium was buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016–17 Midland Football League
The 2016–17 Midland Football League season was the third in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England. Premier Division The Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs: * Coventry United, promoted from Division One * Shawbury United, promoted from the West Midlands (Regional) League * St Andrews, promoted from the East Midlands Counties League * Tividale, relegated from the Northern Premier League League table Promotion criteria To be promoted at the end of the season a team must: # Have applied to be considered for promotion by the end of November # Pass a ground grading examination by the end of March # Finish the season in a position higher than that of any other team also achieving criteria 1 and 2 # Finish the season in one of the top three positions The following six teams achieved criterion one: * Alvechurch * Coleshill Town * Coventry United * Heanor Town * Sporting K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry
Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries. Founded in the early Middle Ages, its city status was formally recognised in a charter of 1345. The city is governed by Coventry City Council, and the West Midlands Combined Authority. Historic counties of England, Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, and again from 1842 to 1974, Coventry had a population of 345,324 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 13th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of Green belt (United Kingdom), green belt known as the Meriden Gap; it is the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 Midland Football League
The 2015–16 Midland Football League season was the 2nd in the history of the Midland Football League (2014), Midland Football League, a association football, football competition in England. Premier Division The Premier Division featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with five new clubs: * Bardon Hill F.C., Bardon Hill, promoted from the 2014–15 East Midlands Counties Football League, East Midlands Counties League * Heanor Town F.C., Heanor Town, transferred from the 2014–15 Northern Counties East Football League, Northern Counties East League * Hereford F.C., Hereford, new club * Highgate United F.C., Highgate United, promoted from Division One * Sporting Khalsa F.C., Sporting Khalsa, promoted from the 2014–15 West Midlands (Regional) League, West Midlands (Regional) League Four clubs have applied for promotion to Step 4: Alvechurch, Heanor Town, Hereford and Sporting Khalsa. League table Results Locations Division One Division One feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
