| Full name | Frickley Athletic Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues | ||
| Founded | 1910 (as Frickley Colliery) | ||
| Ground | Westfield Lane South Elmsall (Capacity: 2,087) |
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| Chairman | Peter Bywater | ||
| League | Northern Premier League Premier Division | ||
| 2010-11 | Northern Premier League Premier Division, 18th |
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Frickley Athletic F.C. are a football club based in South Elmsall, in West Yorkshire, England. They were established in 1910 as Frickley Colliery F.C., and changed to their present name in 1974.
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Initially they played in the Sheffield Association League and the Yorkshire League, before joining the Midland League, where they spent many years. In 1960 Frickley became the only Yorkshire side ever to play in the Cheshire County League, returning to the Midland League in 1970. Frickley joined the Northern Premier League in 1976. Frickley spent seven seasons at the pinnacle of non-league football, the Football Conference (for six of those years still known as the Alliance Premier League), with a highest finish of 2nd place in 1985–86 before being relegated the next season. They currently play in the Northern Premier League Premier Division.
They reached the third round of the FA Cup in the 1985–86 season, following an away win at league club Hartlepool United. The club went on to be eliminated from the competition by Rotherham United. This is their best performance in the competition so far achieved before a record crowd of 5,800.
At that time the club had 4 players in the England Non League team: Paul Shirtliff, Russ Wilcox, Gary Hooley and Paul Wilson.
Frickley's home ground is found on Westfield Lane. The club are expecting substantial redevelopments to the stadium by 2010 as part of the £17m regeneration of the whole area including the former Frickley colliery site. The Club has a long association with the former colliery. The miners used to pay an amount from their wage each week which went to the club and the local cricket club. Also, the ground is famous for being overlooked by the huge colliery spoil heap.
One well known former player and manager is Geoff Sleight, who later became Chief Scout at Leeds United. Other former managers include Jim McAnearney, a former Sheffield Wednesday midfielder, and Ronnie Glavin, the former Celtic & Scotland midfielder. Neil Redfearn (notable for having played 790 matches in The Football League) joined the club in September 2007. Other notable names associated with the club include Mick Wadsworth, Gary Hooley and Keith Whiteley. One of the club's former players, Russ Wilcox, is assistant manager at Burnley under Brian Laws, a role he had previously assumed under Laws at Scunthorpe and Sheffield Wednesday.
The club is namechecked in the song "Frickley", by Chumbawamba.
The club's officials and staff are:
Chairman : Peter Bywater
Directors : Peter Bywater, Steve Shorthouse, Barry Johnson, Gareth Dando, Colin Theedom
Committee : Paul Baines, Keith Donkin, Marie Barnard, Mally Barnard, Neil Howden, Penny Wall, Mark Ainge.
Treasurer : Andrew Steel
Company/General Secretary : Steve Pennock
Match Secretary : Ruth Bradley
Commercial Manager :
First Team Manager : Peter Rinkcavage
Assistant Manager: Jason Maybury
Physio: Todd Martin
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Frickley Athletic F.C. are located close to Moorthorpe railway station and South Elmsall railway station both being just half a mile from the stadium on the York-Sheffield and Leeds-Doncaster/Sheffield lines.
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