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Portsmouth Bombers FC
Portsmouth Bombers Football Club is a Dominican professional football club representing Portsmouth, Dominica (on the northern side of the country, hence their previous name Northern Bombers). The club competes in the Dominica Premier League, the top tier of Dominica football. Honours *Dominica Premiere League The Dominica Premier League is the top division for association football in Dominica, it was created in 1970. Ten clubs participate in the league. Starting in 2005, the winner and runners-up can qualify for the CONCACAF Champions Cup from the f ... ** 1 (2013–14) References External linksTeam profileat Soccerway Football clubs in Dominica {{Caribbean-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin's Park
Benjamin's Park is a sporting venue in Portsmouth, Dominica, located away from the capital, Roseau. The venue's primary use is as a cricket ground, and it has held home matches for the Windward Islands, as well as several matches in regional tournaments. History What is now Benjamin's Park was originally designed as Portsmouth's main public square, according to the 1765 town plan laid out by a Royal Engineer. During the 1980s, the park was the proposed site for a "multi-purpose community complex", financed entirely by the People's Republic of China. However, the Dominican government never agreed to the project. In January 2007, the ground hosted two home fixtures for the Windward Islands against Barbados, a four-day Carib Beer Cup match followed by a one-day KFC Cup match. The four-day game was the first first-class match played in Dominica since 2004, with Benjamin's Park becoming the third ground in Dominica to host first-class cricket (after Windsor Park and the Botanical Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portsmouth, Dominica
Portsmouth is the second largest town in Dominica, with 3,630 inhabitants.Commonwealth of Dominica, ''Population and Housing Census — 2001''. Roseau, Dominica: Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Kennedy Avenue, 2001. It is located on the shore of a natural Harbor, Prince Rupert Bay, in Saint John Parish on the north-west coast of Dominica. The area was called Ouyouhao by the Kalinago and Grand Anse by the French. The Indian River is Portsmouth’s southern border and Cabrits National Park is located on a peninsula to the north of town. History Portsmouth was initially chosen as the capital of Dominica, but only served in that capacity temporarily. Royal Engineer, John Simpson surveyed and laid out the area in 1765. It was laid out with a grid design of streets around a central square (now part of Benjamin's Park). The House of Assembly, Court House, and government offices were supposed to be located on the east side of the central square. Portsm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominica Premier League
The Dominica Premier League is the top division for association football in Dominica, it was created in 1970. Ten clubs participate in the league. Starting in 2005, the winner and runners-up can qualify for the CONCACAF Champions Cup from the first round of the CFU Club Championship. The clubs play an 18-match league (home and away against the other 9 teams). Top club is declared the Dominica Champion and the 10th placed is relegated to Dominica First Division. Some matches are played at 12,000 capacity Windsor Park, which is also used for cricket. Clubs * Bath Estate (Roseau) * Dublanc FC (Dublanc) * East Central (Castle Bruce) * Exodus (Saint Joseph) * Harlem United (Newtown) * Mahaut ( Mahaut) * Portsmouth Bombers (Portsmouth) * Pointe Michel ( Pointe Michel) * South East ( La Plaine) * WE United (Castle Bruce) Previous winners Winners so far: *1950-1957: ''unknown'' *1958: Combermere (Roseau) *1959: Arsenal *1960: ''unknown'' *1961: Combermere (Roseau) *1962: Arsenal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominica
Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. It is part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. Dominica's closest neighbours are two Special member state territories and the European Union, constituent territories of the European Union, both overseas departments of France: Guadeloupe to the northwest and Martinique to the south-southeast. Dominica comprises a land area of , and the highest point is Morne Diablotins, at in elevation. The population was 71,293 at the 2011 census. The island was settled by the Arawak arriving from South America in the fifth century. The Kalinago displaced the Arawak by the 15th century. Christopher Columbus is said to have passed the island on Sunday, 3 November 1493. It was later colonised by Europeans, predominantly by the French from the 1690s to 1763. The French trafficked slaves from W ... [...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] |
Football In Dominica
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] |
Dominica Premiere League
The Dominica Premier League is the top division for association football in Dominica, it was created in 1970. Ten clubs participate in the league. Starting in 2005, the winner and runners-up can qualify for the CONCACAF Champions Cup from the first round of the CFU Club Championship. The clubs play an 18-match league (home and away against the other 9 teams). Top club is declared the Dominica Champion and the 10th placed is relegated to Dominica First Division. Some matches are played at 12,000 capacity Windsor Park, which is also used for cricket. Clubs * Bath Estate ( Roseau) * Dublanc FC ( Dublanc) * East Central (Castle Bruce) * Exodus (Saint Joseph) * Harlem United (Newtown) * Mahaut ( Mahaut) * Portsmouth Bombers (Portsmouth) * Pointe Michel ( Pointe Michel) * South East ( La Plaine) * WE United ( Castle Bruce) Previous winners Winners so far: *1950-1957: ''unknown'' *1958: Combermere (Roseau) *1959: Arsenal *1960: ''unknown'' *1961: Combermere (Roseau) *1962: Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. Website The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary and it is maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of "the most complete" publicly available statistical football databases in the world, and has virtually every piece of historical information. This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Big 8 (Usenet)#Hierarchies, Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
