Porthleven F.C.
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| Full name | Porthleven Association Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Fishermen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1896 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Gala Parc Porthleven |
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| Capacity | 1,500 (50 seated) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Neil Clark |
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| Manager | Gary Marks |
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| League | South Western League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | South Western League, 10th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Porthleven F.C. is a football club based at Porthleven in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.
They were established in 1896 and were founding members of the Cornwall Combination in 1959, and won the inaugural league title. After winning the Cornwall Combination three more times, they stepped up to the South Western League for the 1967-68 season. This proved to be a harder competition, and despite a fine fifth place in their first season, the club were usually to be found in mid-table. After a poor 1976-77 season, the club dropped back, replacing their reserve side in the Cornwall Combination.
Another twelve year spell in the Combination ensued, with two league titles and four other top three places behind them, they again moved up to the South Western League for the 1989-90 season. After seven years of fluctuating fortunes, the club began to take off with the 1996-97 season. For eight straight years, mostly under the managership of Alan Carey, they finished in the top three. However, the ultimate prize, the league title eluded them.
On Carey's departure, the club had to rebuild and unfortunately finished bottom of the South Western League in 2004-05, with the reserves suffering the same fate in the Cornwall Combination. An improved 2005-06 season gives the club optimism for the future.
On four occasions, the club has entered the FA Cup, but has only won one tie so far and not even made it through the preliminary rounds to the four qualifying rounds. In the FA Vase, success has been more forthcoming, After a few poor years, they reached the quarter-finals in 1997-98 becoming only the second Cornish club to reach that stage. Porthleven went on to reach the third round or better in each of the next five seasons.
[edit] Season-by-season record since 1959
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