Truro City F.C.

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Truro City
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Full name Truro City Football Club
Nickname(s) City
Founded 1889
Ground Treyew Road
Truro
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Chairman England Kevin Heaney
Manager England Dave Leonard
League Western Football League Division One
2005-06 South Western League, 2nd
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Truro City F.C. are a football club based in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom. They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951 and won the title five times in their history. Apart from a three season spell in the 1970s, when they played in the Cornwall Combination after losing their ground as part of a by-pass development, they remained in the South Western League until 2006.

In the 2005-06 season, they finished runners-up in the South Western League and were promoted to the Western League Division One. They will be faced with the longest travelling mileage of any club at their level due to the prevalence of Gloucestershire-based clubs in the Western League. Truro are currently the only Cornwall club playing in the top ten levels of the English football league system.

The club has plans to build new facilities at a new site to the north of the city which will include a 16,000 all seater stadium, sports bar, training facilities and a youth academy.

They are believed to be the richest club in Cornwall and most of Devon, apart from Plymouth Argyle. The club's Chairman Kevin Heaney owns a housing company and has attracted many players from higher leagues.

Truro were FA Cup regulars through the 1950s, but have been sporadic entrants since and will return to the competition for the 2006-07 season for the first time in 13 years. They have also been irregular participants in the FA Vase, with their best effort coming in 1996-97 when they exited at the third round stage at the hands of Banstead Athletic.

[edit] History

In 1889 Truro City became one of the founding members of the Cornwall County FA (CCFA). Later in 1889, they played their first game at Truro College against Penzance, winning 7-1. They then switched to Tolgarrick for their future games. Six years later in 1895, they won their first trophy, the Cornwall Senior Cup, beating Launceston 5-0.

In the 1930's Truro left Cornish football for a time, joining the Plymouth and District League, which they went on to win in 1936/37, however as a result of this switch, they were barred from competing the Cornwall Senior Cup, although they were re-admitted again in 1938.

They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, but stumbled in the initial years, requiring re-election in both of their first two seasons to remain in the division. However, they have won the championship five times since, and have only been out of the division for three seasons when they lost their ground due to road widening.

Since 2004, Truro City have been on a upward slope. When Kevin Heaney took over, the club was in debt and struggling to continue. He cleared the debt and now aims to make the team self-sustaining, and eventually become Cornwall's first professional club.

[edit] Club Honours

South Western League Champions (5 times):
1960-61, 1969-70, 1992-93, 1995-96, 1997-98

South Western League Runners-Up (7 times):
1954-55, 1962-63, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1970-71, 1996-97, 2005-06

South Western League Cup Winners (3 times):
1959-60, 1966-67 (Joint), 1992-93

South Western League Cup Runners-Up (6 times):
1954-55, 1958-59, 1967-68, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1997-98

Cornwall Senior Cup Winners (14 times):
1894-95, 1901-02, 1902-03, 1910-11, 1923-24, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1937-38, 1958-59, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1994-95, 1997-98, 2005-06

Durning Lawrence Cornwall Charity Cup Winners (11 times):
1911-12, 1912-13, 1919-20, 1925-26, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1932-33, 1949-50, 1964-65, 1980-81

Durning Lawrence Cornwall Charity Cup Runners-Up (9 times):
1905-06, 1909-10, 1910-11, 1913-14, 1924-25, 1937-38, 1957-58, 1966-67, 2002-03

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