Warmley F.C. was a
football
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club based in
Warmley
Warmley is a village in South Gloucestershire, England.
Warmley is situated in between Bristol and Bath. It is a parish, with its own church, and has some minor landmarks, such as a World War One memorial the focus of Remembrance Services, and ...
, near
Kingswood, Gloucestershire,
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.
History
The club was formed in 1882.
They are widely regarded as playing the first organised football match in the Bristol region against
St George
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.
Alongside Clifton, St George and
Eastville Rovers they were founder members of the Gloucestershire F.A.
They were also one of the founding members of the Bristol & District League (now the
Western Football League
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) in 1892, winning the title four times in their history.
With the advent of professionalism in the
Western League in 1897
St George
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approached Warmley with a proposal to merge the two clubs. The feeling among members of St George was that Bristol was not large enough to support four professional clubs (
Bristol City
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Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...
,
Eastville Rovers, Warmley, and St George) and that by pooling their resources a new merged team would be the strongest club in the city. Warmley, however, rejected the proposal and the merger never took place.
In
1896
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, Warmley joined the Second Division of the
Southern League, before both
Bristol City
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Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...
and
Bristol Rovers
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. The
1897–98 season saw the club finishing in second place to Royal Artillery (forerunners to
Portsmouth
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) in the process becoming the first team in the Southern League to score 100 goals in a season.
The club now competed in the First Division alongside other Bristol sides City and
Bedminster. Only seventeen matches were completed before the club folded in February 1899.
A new club formed and entered the Western League again in 1903. The club resigned in the
1904–05
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season and its season record was expunged.
Colours
The club wore white shirts and blue shorts.
Ground
The club's original ground was behind the Tennis Court Inn at the bottom of Warmley Hill. In 1897 it moved to a ground on Ingleside Road, near the Chequers.
Honours
*
Southern Football League Second Division runners up 1898
*
Western Football League
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/Bristol & District League champions 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897
References
Sources
* The Official Centenary History of the Southern League
Football Club History Database
Defunct football clubs in England
Association football clubs disestablished in 1899
Association football clubs disestablished in 1904
Defunct football clubs in Bristol
Southern Football League clubs
1899 disestablishments in England
1904 disestablishments in England
Association football clubs established in 1882
Association football clubs established in 1903
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