KERNOW

The Cornwall County Football Association was formed on 18 September 1889, at a meeting held at the Royal Hotel in Truro. Representatives from Dunheved College, Liskeard, Millbrook, Penzance, Porthcurnow, Probus, Torpoint, and Truro were involved in the meeting. The CCFA relocated to its present headquarters at Kernow House, Bodmin in December 2009. Almost 255 clubs are affiliated with the association today, with approximately 900 teams playing  football in Cornwall, making it the most popular sport in the county. The first Senior Cup was played on April 3rd 1893 at Liskeard, with a crowd of 300, that saw Penzance beat Launceston 5-0. By 1949, the cup final attendance had grown to 15,000 with receipts reaching £1000.

The Cornwall County Football Association was formed on 18 September 1889, at a meeting held at the Royal Hotel in Truro. Representatives from Dunheved College Launceston, Liskeard, Millbrook, Penzance, Porthcurnow, Probus, Torpoint and Truro were involved in the meeting. The CCFA relocated to its present headquarters at Kernow House, Bodmin, in December 2009. Almost 400 clubs are affiliated with the association today, with approximately 500 teams playing 11-a-side football in Cornwall, making it the most popular sport in the county.

Kernow is Cornish for Cornwall. It comes from the Celtic word 'kernou' meaning 'horn' or 'headland' aptly describing the shape of the peninsula. 

There are a further 300 teams playing youth football, and 250 playing small-sides football, as the association aims to encourage people of all ages, genders, and abilities to be involved in the game. The association's most prestigious tournament, the Cornwall Senior County Cup was first played at Liskeard on 3 April 1893, where Penzance defeated Launceston 5–0. In addition to the Senior Cup, the CCFA organises the Junior Cup, the Sunday Cup, the Women's Cup, the Durning Lawrence Charity Cup, the Under-18 PM Bartlett Trophy League, the Under-18 Rathbone Trophy, the Under-16 Luke Cup, and the Under-16 Girls' League.

There are 31 leagues that are affiliated with the CCFA, that cover 11-a-side, six and five-a-side, men's, women's, and youth from under-9 to under-18 years of age. There are three representative teams who compete at county level, the women's, youth, and girls' under-16s. The county's colours are gold and black.

Local town Polperro FC, play in the St Piran FL, East Division, Level 11 on the Pyramid and feeds to Step 7 Level 10. I saw their Reserves play Bude Town Res on Saturday....if you are remotely interest look back to last Saturday's entry! Truro City, the highest ranked club in the county has a reserve side playing in the Western division, along side Falmouth Town Reserves and Mousehole Development, to name two. The First Team plays in the Southern League, 7th Tier and is owned by the Cornish Pirates Rugby Club.

Truro City, founded in 1889, was a founder member of the County FA and now play their home games at Treyew Road, Truro. Their first game in 1889 was played at Truro School, against Penzance winning 7-1. The ground has been their home since the mid-1900s. Only in recent years have they added to their old stand and erected two new stands on opposite sides of the ground lifting the capacity to approximately 3,000.

In 2005 the club announced plans to build a new 16,000-seater stadium in Truro as a new home for the city's football club. However, the £12m plans were opposed by some residents who live near the proposed site at Treyew Rd.  In 2006, the club revealed plans for a £7m football training complex. The club wanted to build two new pitches and a club house on land in Kenwyn, Truro with a 60-bed hotel and offices at its present Treyew Road base. However, in 2007, Carrick District Council rejected the plans for the new 16,000-seater stadium, a decision which club chairman Kevin Heaney described as a 'major blow'.

In 2011 Cornwall Council started developing a business plan for the proposed Stadium for Cornwall, which would host both Truro City and the Cornish Pirates rugby union team.

In 2014, the club sold Treyew Road for redevelopment, with the intention of using the money as their share of the development costs for the planned new stadium. The club received three extensions allowing them to stay at the ground following its sale, but in the summer of 2018, the development company announced its plans to begin work on the project immediately, forcing Truro City to find a temporary location. Eventually, the club came to an agreement with divisional rivals Torquay United to undertake a groundshare of their Plainmoor, a ground that was 2 hours away from Truro. This agreement created the quirk of having more than 2,700 away fans than home ones in attendance when Truro hosted Torquay that season.

In October 2018 it was revealed that the deal with Helical Retail, who were going to redevelop the Treyew Road site into a supermarket, was off. In January 2019, Truro returned to Treyew Road, but insisted that their return to the ground did not affect their plans to share the proposed Stadium with Cornish Pirates in future. The Pirates bought Truro in March 2019.

In January 2021, it was announced that the club will finally leave their Treyew Road ground and groundshare with Plymouth Parkway FC at Bolitho Park, Plymouth until 2022 when the Stadium for Cornwall is scheduled to be finished.