Team Northumbria Football Club is a football club based in

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. They are the football team of

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and currently play in the BUCS Premier North League.

History

The club was founded in 1999 as Northumbria University Football Club and joined Division Two of the

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.Northern Alliance 1990–2001
Non-League Matters In 2001–02 they were Division Two runners-up, earning promotion to Division One. The club went on to finish as runners-up in Division One the following season, and were promoted to the Premier Division. In 2003 they were renamed Team Northumbria. The club's first season in the Premier Division saw them finish as runners-up. Following a third-place finish in 2004–05, they were Premier Division champions in 2005–06, resulting in promotion to Division Two of the

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. The club entered the FA Vase for the first time the following season. In 2011–12 Team Northumbria won the Northern League's Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup, beating Chester-le-Street Town on penalties in the final; they also reached the final of the

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, losing on penalties to

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The Journal, 1 May 2012 as well as winning the Division Two title, resulting in promotion to Division One. Although they were relegated back to Division Two at the end of the 2013–14 season, they were Division Two runners-up in 2016–17 and were promoted to Division One again. In the summer of 2018, Team Northumbia resigned from the Northern League, continuing playing in the BUCS Premier North League.Team Northumbria withdraw from the Northern League just weeks before new season
Chronicle Live, 10 July 2018

Honours

*Northern League **Division Two champions 2011–12 **Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup winners 2010–11 *Northern Alliance **Premier Division champions 2005–06

Records

*Best

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performance: First qualifying round, 2013–14 *Best

FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English footb ...

performance: Third round, 2015–16

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