Daventry Town F.C.

Daventry Town

Full name	Daventry Town Football Club
Nickname(s)	Town
Founded	1886
Ground	Communications Park Browns Road Daventry NN11 4NS (Capacity: 5000)
Chairman	Iain Humphrey
Manager	Mark Kinsella
League	Southern League Division One Central
2010–11	Southern League Division One Central, 3rd
Home colours Away colours

Daventry Town F.C. is a football club based in the town of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.

Contents 1 History 2 Players 2.1 Current squad 3 Honours 4 Season-by-season record since 1989 5 References 6 External links

History

The club was established in 1886 as a local-town club playing in the Northampton Town League. The club moved to the Northants Combination in 1987, and their emergence began under manager Willie Barrett, who led the club to successive championships in the Combination First and Premier divisions. In 1989–90, the club joined the United Counties League Division One. Since joining the United Counties League, they have won promotion to the Premier Division] on three occasions, but have also been relegated twice.

The club started at The Hollow Ground in the town, but having won promotion at the first attempt were denied because their new Elderstubbs ground was not ready in time. Their manager left, and the fortunes of the club declined with relegation alternating with promotion.

The club was threatened with extinction in 2005–06, when the Elderstubbs clubhouse and changing rooms were destroyed by fire. However, a sponsorship deal with mobile phone company Go Mobile enabled the club to survive.

2007–08 was a very successful season for Daventry Town. They won Division One, losing just once, and defeated three Premier division teams en route to the League Knockout Cup final, where they were defeated by Desborough Town 3–2. That same season the newly formed ladies team lifted the Northants County League Trophy losing only 1 game all season and then also the League Cup, beating Kingsthorpe Ladies 4–0 to complete the "Double".

Daventry have been entering FA national competitions intermittently since the early 1990s. Their best FA Vase run came in 2008–09, when they reached the Third Round, while have also entered the FA Cup on three occasions, but have not yet managed to score a goal in any tie.

Daventry is also the home town of fellow UCL members Ford Sports Daventry (now known as Daventry United) and Town also suffered from the proximity of the now-defunct UCL club British Timken Athletic (formerly British Timken Duston) who were based in the town.^[1] For several seasons Daventry Town was regarded as the "poor relation". Following their fire, it was widely suggested that Town would merge with Ford Sports Daventry. However, the Ford Motor Company has recently scaled down its operations in the town, which had an effect upon the fortunes of Ford Sports Daventry, who in 2006–07 were relegated to Division 1, and since Town's phœnix experience, the two clubs have had a more equal and healthy local rivalry.

Players

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Joe Mellings DF Lewis Bishop DF Callum Burgess DF Nathan Delmonte DF Luke Edwards DF Jason Lee DF Craig Milligan DF Arron Parkinson MF Tom Burn MF Adam Confue MF Charlton Davis MF Tom Fountain MF Chris Hannah

No. Position Player MF Nathan Hicks MF Josh O'Grady MF Casimir Pangne MF Jon Powis MF Peter Saunders MF Aaron Stringfellow FW Mark Bellingham FW Scott Cross FW Howard Forinton FW Claudiu Hoban FW Leon Simpson FW James Travis

Honours

• United Counties League
  • Division One champions 1989–90, 1990–91, 2000–01 2007–08

Season-by-season record since 1989

Season	Division	Points	Position	League Cup	F.A. Cup	F.A. Vase	Notes
1989–90	United Counties League Division One	81	1/19
1990–91	United Counties League Division One	95	1/19
1991–92	United Counties League Premier Division	64	14/24			Pre
1992–93	United Counties League Premier Division	79	5/22			Ex Pre
1993–94	United Counties League Premier Division	35	20/22		Pre	Pre
1994–95	United Counties League Division One	14	19/19
1995–96	United Counties League Division One	41	12/19
1996–97	United Counties League Division One	36	13/18
1997–98	United Counties League Division One	53	7/18
1998–99	United Counties League Division One	46	10/18
1999–2000	United Counties League Division One	64	5/18
2000–01	United Counties League Division One	75	1/18
2001–02	United Counties League Premier Division	46	15/21
2002–03	United Counties League Premier Division	56	10/21			2 QR
2003–04	United Counties League Premier Division	22	22/22	R 1	Ex Pre	R 2
2004–05	United Counties League Premier Division	34	22/22	R 1	Ex Pre	2 QR
2005–06	United Counties League Division One	51	6/18	R 2		2 QR
2006–07	United Counties League Division One	53	4/16	R 1
2007–08	United Counties League Division One	81	1/16	Final
2008–09	United Counties League Premier Division			R 1		R 3

Key – Ex Pre = Extra Preliminary Round, Pre = Preliminary Round, 2 QR = Second Round Qualifying, R 1 = First Round, R 2 = Second Round, R 3 = Third Round

Source: Football Club History Database

References

External links

• Daventry Town official website
• Daventry Town on Football Club History Database

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