Tuesday 29 August 2017

ONCE UPON A TIME

The Vanarama National league had a full round of 12 fixtures last night. Many of the fixtures contained ex football league clubs (some teams under slightly different names and ownership).
The linked dates represent when the club was last in the FL.

Attendances at these game were ranging from 1,118 at Gateshead (1960) v FC Halifax (2002) to 2,544 at Maidenhead Utd v Leyton Orient (2017).

Maidstone Utd (1992)  played  Dagenham and Redbridge (2016).

Looking through the fixtures, Bromley v Sutton Utd and Dover v Ebbsfleet Utd include no other previous Football League club.

The other fixtures included:
AFC Fylde v Barrow (1972)
Boreham Wood v Wrexham (2008)
Chester (2009) v Macclesfield (2012)
Eastleigh v Aldershot (1992)
Guiseley v Hartlepool (2017)
Solihull Moors v Tranmere (2015)
Woking v Torquay (2014)

In the next divisions down-Vanarama national North has the following clubs previously in the FL:
Boston Utd, Kidderminster (2005), Bradford PA, Darlington, Southport, Stockport County, York City.
In the Southern section there are none!
This link is an interesting piece of Football League history!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_English_Football_League_clubs

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