Clapham Rovers F.C.
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Clapham Rovers was an early English association football club founded in 1869. They played variously on Clapham Common, Tooting Bec Common and Wandsworth Common and are recorded as having worn a cerise and French grey kit.
They are best known for winning the F.A. Cup in 1880 with a 1-0 win over Oxford University at The Kennington Oval. In the previous season, Clapham Rovers had also reached the final, but lost 1-0 to Old Etonians.
Their 1880 FA Cup winning team was as follows:
- Reginald Birkett, Robert Ogilvie, Edgar Field, A. Weston, Norman Bailey, A.J. Stanley, H. Brougham, Francis Sparks, F. Barry, E.A. Ram, C.A. Lloyd-Jones. Lloyd-Jones scored the only goal of the game
[edit] Rebirth
Clapham Rovers was reborn in 1996, when the club was re-registered with the London Football Association. Clapham Rovers now play their football in the Sportsman's Senior Sunday League Division 3. James F. M. Prinsep, the youngest player to be capped for England until Wayne Rooney broke his record, is remembered every year, when the club awards the James Frederick Frankie Prinsep trophy to the Player of the Year.
[edit] Honours since re-formation
- Sportsman's Senior Sunday League Division 4 Runners-up 1999-2000
- Bert Gaby Cup runners-up 2004-05
- Sportman's Senior Sunday League Division 4 Runners-up 2004-05
- 2005-06 Sportmans Senior Sunday League Division 3 Winners
