Torpoint Athletic Football Club is a football club based in

Torpoint Torpoint ( kw, Penntorr) is a civil parish and town on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of Plymouth across the Hamoaze which is the tidal estuary of the River Tamar. Torpoint h ...

, Cornwall, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Mill.

History

The club was formed as a merger of Torpoint Triumph and Torpoint Defiance.Prideaux, Frederick
The Grecian Archive They won the

Cornwall Senior Cup The Cornwall County Football Association Senior Cup, commonly known as the Cornwall Senior Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football for clubs based in Cornwall, run by and named after the Cornwall County Football Association. It i ...

, the Cornwall Charity Cup and the Plymouth & District League in 1905–06, and retained the Senior Cup the following season, before winning it again in 1908–09 and 1909–10. After

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the club won the Senior Cup in 1919–20, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1928–29 and 1932–33. In 1962 Torpoint joined the

South Western League The South Western Football League was an English association football league composed of clubs from Cornwall and west and north Devon. It consisted of a single division at the eleventh overall tier of the English football league system, the seve ...

, going on to win the league title in 1964–65 and 1966–67. They were runners-up in the league in 1995–96, a season which also saw them win the Cornwall Senior Cup for the first time since the 1930s. In 2003–04 the club won the League Cup. In 2007 the South Western League merged with the

Devon County League The Devon County Football League was a football competition based in England. It consisted of 20 clubs and sat at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System. History The league was formed in 1992 in order to form an intermediate level be ...

to form the

South West Peninsula League The South West Peninsula League (SWPL) is a football competition in England, which was formed in 2007 from the merger of the Devon County League and the South Western League. The league is restricted to clubs based in Cornwall, Devon and West ...

, with Torpoint placed in the Premier Division. Following league reorganisation at the end of the 2018–19 season, the club were moved to the Premier Division East. In the 2021/22 season Torpoint Athletic became South West Peninsula Premier Division East Champions, the first time the 1st team have won a league championship for 55 years, the last time was in 1967 with Les Cardew as manager, his grandson Dean Cardew is the manager today. In this season’s cup competitions they got to the FA Vase 2nd Round Proper, competed in the Cornwall Senior Cup and won the Walter C Parson Cup Final, beating St Blazey 3-1 at Pennygillam, completing a League & League Cup double. They lost the SWPL Champions Bowl 4-2 to Falmouth Town (SWPL West Champions) at Bodmin Town.

Honours

*South West Peninsula Premier Division East **Champions: 2021-22 *Walter C Parson SWPL League Cup **Winners: 2021-22 *South West Peninsula Champions Bowl **Runners-up: 2022 *South Western League **Champions: 1964–65, 1966–67 *Plymouth & District League **Champions: 1905–06 *Cornwall Senior Cup **Winners: 1905–06, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1919–20, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1928–29, 1932–33, 1995–96 *Cornwall Charity Cup **Winners: 1905–06, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1920–21, 1936–37, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1995–96

Records

*Best

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performance: First qualifying round, 2010–11 & 2022/23 *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: Quarter-finals, 2010–11

References

External links

Official website
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