Peterborough Northern Star F.C.

Peterborough Northern Star

Full name

Peterborough Northern Star Football Club

Nickname(s)

Star

Founded

1905

Ground

Branch Bros Stadium, Chestnut Avenue, Peterborough

Capacity

500

Chairman

Tony Zirpolo

Manager

Raffaele Mazzarella

League

United Counties League Premier Division

2016–17

United Counties League Premier Division, 15th of 22

Home colours

Peterborough Northern Star F.C. is a football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. They play in the United Counties League Premier Division.

History

It is believed Peterborough Northern Star has its roots in Eye village football, where the team played in the Peterborough and District Football League under three different names in four spells from 1905 to 1930, with a couple of breaks. Including one for the First World War.

In 1931, Northam Star Sports Club was born, taking over from Eye United and combining works teams from the Northam and Dogsthorpe Star brick works. The team’s debut season in a reorganised Peterborough and District Football League saw them taking part in the new Division Three North and they opened their campaign with a 5-2 defeat away to Paston Athletic Reserves.

Their first season saw Northam Star finish a respectable sixth in a league of ten teams.

Northam Star had a long history in the PDFL, winning Division Three North twice, before the team disbanded and a change of name became necessary when the brickyard changed hands in 1951.

A committee composed of Jack Atkin, Paddy Bream, Sonny Gunn, Percy Hodgkin, Alfie Warner and Dick White formed a new club and reverted to the name Eye United.

Eye United was a dominant force in the PDFL, winning ten league titles between 1960 and 2003 which included a hat-trick of Premier Division titles at the turn of the 1980s. In the 2000/01 season, Eye United won all thirty league games and romped to the title by sixteen points.

From 1973 to 2003, Eye United won five Senior Cups, which included another hat-trick from 2000/01 to 2002/03 and they also won the Jack Hogg Shield four times in a row from 2000 to 2003. It was time to move on and they took their place in the United Counties League Division One in 2003/04, moving from Lindisfarne Road to their current base in Dogsthorpe.

After two seasons in UCL Division One, in which the team finished third and fourth, a decision was made to change name as there was some confusion caused by the move out of Eye, whilst retaining the Eye United name. Rather than change back to Northam Star, which would have kept the Eye connection alive, the club debuted as Peterborough Northern Star in 2005/06, finishing ninth.

It did not take long for success to come to Chestnut Avenue, and Star won the UCL Div One in 2008/09. A second placed finish the following season was enough to see the club promoted to the Premier Division and the club won its first Hinchingbrooke Cup that year.

In the UCL Premier Division, the club finished its debut season in a creditable ninth place and a couple of years later had a remarkable run to the quarter finals of the FA Vase, where it took eventual winners Dunston to stop Star with a 4-3 win in a thrilling match in front of over 600 spectators.

Following the departure of manager Chris Plummer that team broke up, and the seasons since 2012 have seen frequent changes of manager and playing staff, which has led to an unsettled period for the club.

Despite this, success continues to be achieved at all levels from juniors to youths and reserves in 2014/15, the Star first team secured its second Hinchingbrooke Cup with a victory over Deeping Rangers and reached the final again the following year, where we were defeated by Peterborough Sports.

For the 2016/17 season, the club welcomed Raff Mazzarella back as first team manager, following a previous spell in charge of the club’s reserve side, which saw his team finish runners up in the league and win the Reserve KO Cup.

Honours

United Counties Football League Division One
- Champions 2008–09
- Runners-up 2007–08, 2009–10
Hinchingbrooke Cup
- Winners 2009-10, 2014-15

Coaching staff

First Team
- Manager: Raffaele Mazzarella
- Assistant Manager: Steve Wilson
- Goalkeeping Coach: Tom Lilley
- Physiotherapist: Mike Gould

Reserves
- Manager:
- Assistant:

U18 (midweek)
- Managers:
- Assistant:

Records

FA Vase
- Quarter-finals 2011–12

References

External links

Club website

2017–18 United Counties League
Premier Division	Boston Town Cogenhoe United Daventry Town Deeping Rangers Desborough Town Eynesbury Rovers Harborough Town Holbeach United Kirby Muxloe Leicester Nirvana Newport Pagnell Town Northampton ON Chenecks Northampton Sileby Rangers Oadby Town Peterborough Northern Star Rothwell Corinthians Sleaford Town St Andrews Wellingborough Town Wellingborough Whitworth Wisbech Town Yaxley
Division One	Blackstones Bourne Town Buckingham Town Bugbrooke St. Michaels Burton Park Wanderers Harrowby United Huntingdon Town Irchester United Long Buckby Lutterworth Athletic Lutterworth Town Melton Town Oakham United Olney Town Pinchbeck United Potton United Raunds Town Rushden & Higham United Stewarts & Lloyds Corby Thrapston Town
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The City of Peterborough
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Suburbs	Bretton Dogsthorpe Eastfield Eastgate Fengate Fletton Gunthorpe The Hamptons Longthorpe Millfield Netherton Newark New England The Ortons Parnwell Paston Ravensthorpe Stanground Walton Werrington West Town Westwood Woodston
Attractions	Peterborough Cathedral Peterborough Museum Burghley House Milton Hall Longthorpe Tower Thorpe Hall Flag Fen Nene Valley Railway Nene Park Barnack Hills & Holes The Lido Embassy Theatre Thorney Abbey London Road Stadium
Establishments	Peterborough City Council Peterborough Power Station HMP Peterborough Peterborough City Hospital Peterborough Regional College City College Peterborough University Centre Peterborough Anglican Diocese of Peterborough Queensgate shopping centre Schools in Peterborough
Transport	Road transport in Peterborough Queensgate bus station Peterborough railway station Peterborough/Conington Airport Peterborough/Sibson Airport
History	Boroughby Durobrivae (Water Newton) Medeshamstede Peterborough Chronicle Peterborough ware Nene Valley Colour Coated Ware Soke of Peterborough Peterborough Rural District

Coordinates: 52°35′41.91″N 0°13′37.43″W / 52.5949750°N 0.2270639°W / 52.5949750; -0.2270639

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