Newcastle Benfield (Bay Plastics) F.C.
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| Full name | Newcastle Benfield (Bay Plastics) Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Sam Smith's Park, Walkergate, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| Capacity | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Jimmy Rowe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Paul Baker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Northern League Division One | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | Northern League Division One, 9th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Newcastle Benfield (Bay Plastics) F.C. is a football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. They joined the Northern Alliance Division One in 1991. For the 2006-07 season, they are members of the Northern League Division One.
The club was formed in 1988 as Heaton Corner House and joined the Northern Alliance Second Division, the 13th level of the English football league pyramid. At the end of their first season, played at Walker Park, the club moved to their current home, Sam Smith's Park and changed their name to Benfield Park F.C.
They were quickly promoted through the divisions to the Northern Alliance Premier Division and won both the league title and the Northern Alliance League Cup at the first attempt.
In 1999 Benfield Park merged with North Shields side St. Columbas and changed their name to Benfield Park Saints. They regained the Premier Division title in 2003 and with it promotion to the Northern League Second Division. Another promotion followed the next season, this time to the Northern League First Division.
Their first season at this higher level, 2004-05, saw them finish in a creditable fourth place and reach the final of the Northumberland FA Senior Cup. In 2005 they changed their name again, this time to Newcastle Benfield Bay Plastics.
The 2005-06 season started badly, but fortunes changed after the appoinment of the former York City, Carlisle United and Torquay United player Paul Baker as manager in September 2005. They reached the fifth round of the F.A. Vase and finished 9th in the league.
In the 2006-07 season, the team, which has never made it to the first round proper of the FA Cup, were drawn at home to former Football League side York City in the final qualifying round of the 2006/7 competition, but lost 1-0, a Clayton Donaldson penalty winning the tie for York.
