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Harrogate Town Association Football Club is a professional
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club in
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,
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, England. The team competes in League Two, the fourth level of the
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. Harrogate Hotspurs were founded in 1919 and changed their name to Harrogate Town after football returned at the end of the
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, joining the West Yorkshire Association League. They entered the Yorkshire League again in 1957. In 1982 the club became founder members of the
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and a founding member of the
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's First Division in 1987. They won the Northern Premier League Division One title in 2001–02 and became founder members of the
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in 2004. They won the National League North play-offs in 2018 and secured a place in the
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for the first time with victory in the
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. The team won the 2019–20 FA Trophy after defeating Concord Rangers. The club is nicknamed the Sulphurites, due to the
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's sulphur springs. The club's colours are black and yellow and they play home games at
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.


History


Early history

People in the town of
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had tried to put together a football team as far back as 1907 but it took until 1914 for Harrogate A.F.C. to be founded. They were entered into the
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in 1914, and were set to play their home fixtures at the County Ground, but the
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meant all fixtures were postponed. After the First World War, Robert Ackrill Breare instigated a meeting to discuss putting the club back together. Breare later became the secretary of the club, which entered into the West Riding League. Harrogate played their first competitive fixture on 30 August 1919 at Starbeck Lane Ground against Horsforth. They won the game 1–0 and the scorer was L. Craven with a headed goal. They were entered into the
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the same year, losing to South Kirkby Colliery 4–0 in a 1Q replay. Harrogate also won their first trophy, the Whitworth Cup, with a 4–0 victory against Ripon City. For the 1920–21 season Harrogate were one of the founding teams in the new Yorkshire League, yet they also continued to field a team in the West Riding League. The club had relocated to a new ground: Wetherby Road. Around the holiday periods, they took part in friendlies against higher league opposition including
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at their
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ground, and another at fellow Yorkshire side
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in front of 15,000 fans. They moved league once again for their third season, leaving the West Riding League and moving into the
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. It included the reserve teams of
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,
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and
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. The club remained in the Yorkshire League, fielding a reserve team. However, the club resigned from the Midland League after only one season and reverting to fielding a first team in the Yorkshire League. The West Riding County Challenge Cup was won by Harrogate in 1925, with their 3–1 victory against Fryston Colliery at
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. League victory was secured in 1926–27, as Harrogate became the Yorkshire League champions, with Bob Morphet scoring 44 goals. The club then moved into the
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. Their second West Riding County Challenge Cup was won the same season against Selby Town. The team disbanded in 1932.


Climbing the pyramid (1935–2011)

A football club was brought back to the town in 1935 with Harrogate Hotspurs. After the
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, the club was renamed Harrogate Town and played in the
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. Harrogate Town joined the Yorkshire League again in 1957. They spent many years in the Yorkshire League during the 1960s and 1970s, and then became a founding member of the new
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in 1982. On 4 September 1976, they fielded a black player for the first time when Denver Mitchell played in goal for them against Rawmarsh Welfare. Denver made 29 appearances for Harrogate between 1976 and 1978. The club was looking to climb the newly instated
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and so began to improve their ground, installing
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s. They played a friendly to mark the occasion against
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, with Eddie Gray being the first to switch the lights on. After a West Riding County Cup win in 1986, and five seasons in the Northern Counties East League, they became founding members of the
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's new First Division in 1987–88, after having been invited to join the new league. In 1990 the club became a limited company to fund construction of a new main stand, and in the same year the club won the Northern Premier League First Division Cup. They spent 15 seasons in this league, twice narrowly avoiding relegation back to the Northern Counties East League. However, they won promotion to the Premier Division in 2001–02 after finishing as champions. During their first season in that division they finished sixth, and for the first time in the club's history they reached the first round of the
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, losing 5–1 to Farnborough Town of the Football Conference. Town also won the West Riding County Cup in both the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. After finishing fifth in the Premier Division in 2003–04, the club became founders of the newly established
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in 2004. During their FA Cup run in the 2005–06 season, Harrogate were drawn to play at
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, their first cup game against Football League opposition. After drawing 1–1 at
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, they lost 6–5 on penalties after a 0–0 draw in the replay. At the end of the season the club finished fifth and qualified for the promotion play-offs, but lost 1–0 to eventual winners
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. At the end of the 2009–10 season the club finished bottom of the Conference North and were due to be relegated. However, after
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were demoted due to financial problems, the club were reprieved.


Irving Weaver era (2011–present)

Before the start of the 2011–12 season, Bill Fotherby handed control of the club to Irving Weaver, father of manager
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. Tad Nowakowski, father of player Adam, also joined the board to help improve community links. The 2011–12 season ended in a relegation dogfight, Harrogate survived on the final day thanks to a 5–0 away win at Corby Town. The 2012–13 season saw the team's best run in the FA Cup. On 3 November 2012 they beat League Two team Torquay United 1–0 to go beyond the first round for the first time. Against Hastings United in the second round, they drew 1–1 at Wetherby Road, and the replay at Hastings also finished 1–1 but they lost 5–4 on penalties. After a good start placing them in the top five at the beginning of the 2016–17 season, the team went on a long run of bad form. As a result, Weaver and other club officials decided that the players at the end of the season should be given full-time contracts to improve chances of promotion. The club began training full time from 3 July 2017. They won the
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play-offs for the 2017–18 season beating
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in the play-off final earning promotion to the
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. The club finished sixth in their
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campaign, qualifying for the play-offs. They were beaten 3–1 by
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in a play-off eliminator. As the
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season was curtailed due to the
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, table positions were determined on average points-per-game, of which Harrogate Town had 1.78, placing them second and meaning they again qualified for the play-offs, this time in the semi-finals. In the semi-final, they beat
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1–0. On 2 August 2020, at
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, the club faced
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in the
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and won 3–1, earning promotion to the
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for the first time in their history. They also reached the 2020 FA Trophy final, defeating
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,
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,
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,
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and Notts County on their route to the final. Harrogate won the final against Concord Rangers on 3 May 2021. As a result of the almost 12-month delay in staging the final, caused by the
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, Harrogate Town became the first EFL side in history to participate in the competition. On 12 September 2020, Harrogate played their first English Football League game, winning 4–0 away at
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. In September 2020, Harrogate played their first
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match, away to
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which they won. In the second round, Harrogate were eliminated by
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side
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3–0. In
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, Harrogate finished their first Football League season in 17th place. In 2021–22, Harrogate did enough to survive in the League again, finishing in 19th place and reached the third round of the
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for the first time. In the 2024–25 season, Harrogate reached the FA Cup third round again, losing 1–0 away to
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.


League history

Source:


Ground

The club play at
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. Opened on 28 August 1920, it has a capacity of 5,000 of which 2,000 is seated. The ground is situated on the A661 Wetherby Road adjacent to
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. It has covered accommodation on all four sides, as well as a hospitality lounge in the south-east corner. The club shop and a function room called the 1919 Venue are on the south side. Harrogate Town's academy also play most of their home games at Wetherby Road. On promotion to the
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in August 2020, the club confirmed that in order to comply with the League's regulations, they would replace Wetherby Road's synthetic pitch with a grass one. This was not completed by the time that the 2020–21 season commenced and the club arranged a temporary groundshare at
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's
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. The first Football League match played at Wetherby Road was on 17 October 2020 when Harrogate beat Barrow 1–0.


Gallery

File:Wetherby Road football ground, Harrogate (25th January 2014) 005.JPG, The ground in 2014 before remodelling File:Harrogate Town v Salford City, Wetherby Road, Harrogate (19th December 2020) 006.jpg, A socially distanced crowd in the East Stand in 2020 File:Wetherby Road stadium, looking north.jpg, Northwards view showing Hospital End (left) and two stands on eastern side (October 2023)


Current squad


Out on loan


Current staff

Board of directors *Chairman: Irving Weaver *Vice-chairman: Howard Matthews *Managing Director: Garry Plant *Associate director: Richard Crabb *Events director: Angus Taylor *Operations director: Dave Riley *Finance director: Julian Davis Coaching staff *
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:
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*Assistant Manager:
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*Goalkeeping Coach: Phil Priestley *Coach: Lee Barraclough *Physio: Rachel Davis *Sport psychology: Phil Lee *Academy U21s manager:
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*Academy U17s manager: Josh Walsh *Academy secretary: Dave Riley *Academy Physio: Laura Rhys-Williams *Women's Manager: Kate Doonan Other staff *Club Secretary: Abbey Smith *Life President: George Dunnington *Vice-president 1:
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*Vice-president 2: Clive Dunnington *Club scout: Lloyd Kerry


Records

*
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best performance **Third round: 2021–22, 2024–25 *
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best performance **Second round:
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, 2023–24 *
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best performance **Quarter-finals: 2021–22 *
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best performance **Winner: 2019–20 *
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best performance **Fourth round: 1989–90


Honours

Source: League *
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(level 5) **Play-off winners:
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*
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(level 6) **Play-off winners:
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*
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**Division One champions: 2001–02 * Yorkshire League **Champions: 1926–27 **Division Two champions: 1981–82 Cup *
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**Winners: 2019–20 *Northern Premier League Division One Cup **Winners: 1989–90 *West Riding County Challenge Cup **Winners (8): 1925–26, 1926–27, 1962–63,
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, 1985–86, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2007–08 *Whitworth Cup **Winners: 1919–20


References


External links

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