Tividale F.C.

Tividale

Full name

Tividale Football Club

Nickname(s)

The Dale

Founded

1954

Ground

The Beeches
Tividale
West Midlands

Capacity

1,350

Chairman

Dave Evans (interim)

Manager

Philip Male & Ross Thorpe

League

Northern Premier League
Division One South

2014–15

Northern Premier League Division One South, 8th

Home colours

Away colours

Tividale F.C. is a football club based in Tividale, near Dudley, West Midlands, England. They were established in 1954. In the 2011–12 season, under the management of Dean Whitehouse, they reached the 5th round of the FA Vase, the furthest the club has progressed in the competition.^[1] They won the Midland Football Alliance in 2013–14.

History

Tividale (yellow shirts) playing Oadby Town in the FA Vase in 2010

Tividale F.C. was formed in 1954 as the senior branch of Tividale Hall Youth Club F.C and originally played in the Handsworth and District League, before moving on to the Warwickshire & West Midlands Alliance. In 1966 they joined the newly formed West Midlands (Regional) League Division One. In 1973 they gained promotion to the Premier Division and remained there for nearly 20 years, with a best-placed finish of 4th.

In 1991 the club were relegated to Division One due to no longer being able to meet the required ground standards for the top division, and these events led to a number of management and playing staff leaving the club. New manager Terry Jones was able to turn the club's fortunes around and in 1993 Tividale finished second in Division One and won promotion back into the Premier. Unfortunately in the same year the Midland Football Alliance was formed, moving the West Midlands League one step down the pyramid, so in a sense the club had not advanced.

Since their return to the Premier Division Tividale have generally been a mid-table side, although in 2001–02 they finished second, despite having three points deducted. Between 2002 and 2004 the club reached the final of the Walsall Senior Cup in three successive seasons, winning the trophy in 2003.

Ian Long joined as joint-manager with Stuart Scriven in 2013. After Scriven left the club due to work commitments in 2013, Long assumed sole managership of the first team.^[2] In their first season in the Northern Premier League Division One South Tividale finished in 8th position. Long stepped down at the end of the 2014-15 season and was replaced by joint managers Philip Male and Ross Thorpe.

Ground

Tividale moved to their current ground in Packwood Road in 1974, renaming it The Beeches. This name was chosen to honour a British Waterways official who had granted the site's lease to the club. The new ground was situated in a newly developed residential street on the Tividale Hall Estate on land which had previously been inaccessible to motor vehicles and which had required the demolition of four houses in order to open up the land for development.

In 1991 a new rule was introduced by the West Midlands League that all Premier Division clubs must have floodlights. As Tividale could not afford to erect lights at The Beeches, they had no option but to step down to Division One. Floodlights were eventually erected two years later.

More recent development work has seen the building of a 200-seater stand, new changing rooms, a boardroom, and the refurbishment of the Social Club. In spring 2014 club achieved the ground grading that allowed them to play in the Northern Premier League Division One South for the 2014-15 season

Honours

Midland Football Alliance
- Champions, 2013–14
West Midlands (Regional) League
- Premier Division champions, 2010–11
- Premier Division Cup winners, 2010–11
- Premier Division runners-up, 2001–2
- Division One champions, 1972–73

J.W. Hunt Cup winners 2013–14

Walsall Senior Cup
- Winners, 2002-3
- Runners-up, 2001–2, 2003–4,

Club records

Best league performance: 1st in Midland Football Alliance, 2013–14^[3]
Best FA Cup performance: 4th qualifying round, 1975–76^[3]
Best FA Vase performance: 5th round, 2011–12^[3]

Players

Current squad

As of 22 April 2015^[4]

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

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Tom Turner
		GK	Tom Cox
		DF	Jacob Barnes
		DF	Anton Caines-Powell
		DF	Cameron Burns
		DF	Jesse Race
		DF	Phil Male
		DF	Jason Chilton
		DF	Lewis Wright
		MF	Desean Martin
		MF	Chris Rabone
		MF	Aaron O'Neill
		MF	Craig Milligan
		MF	martin Hill
		MF	Scott Devlin
		MF	Ashley Jackson
		MF	Jahmel Taylor
		MF	Ashleigh Granville
		FW	Shaquille Leachman-Whittingham
		FW	Joel Ayettey
		FW	Demetri Brown
		FW	Charles Wilson
		FW	Chris Sterling

External links

Official club website

References

↑ http://www.fchd.info/TIVIDALE.HTM.
↑ "Scriv Steps Down". http://www.tividalefc.com. External link in |website= (help)
1 2 3 Tividale at the Football Club History Database
↑ "First – Players & Coaches". Tividale F.C. Retrieved 2010-09-10.

Northern Premier League

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Division One North	Bamber Bridge Brighouse Town Burscough Clitheroe Droylsden Farsley Celtic Glossop North End Harrogate Railway Athletic Kendal Town Lancaster City Mossley New Mills Northwich Victoria Ossett Albion Ossett Town Prescot Cables Radcliffe Borough Scarborough Athletic Spennymoor Town Trafford Warrington Town Witton Albion

Division One South	Basford United Belper Town Carlton Town Chasetown Coalville Town Daventry Town Goole Gresley Kidsgrove Athletic Leek Town Lincoln United Loughborough Dynamo Market Drayton Town Newcastle Town Romulus Rugby Town Shaw Lane Aquaforce Sheffield Spalding United Stafford Rangers Stocksbridge Park Steels Tividale

Seasons	1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

See also: Northern Premier League Challenge Cup, Northern Premier League President's Cup, Northern Premier League Chairman's Cup, Peter Swales Shield

Coordinates: 52°30′38.380″N 2°3′0.641″W / 52.51066111°N 2.05017806°W / 52.51066111; -2.05017806 52:30:38.380N 2:3:0.641W

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