Accrington F.C.
The Accrington FC ( officially: Accrington Football Club ) - also known as The ' Owd Reds - was an English football club from the city of Accrington, which is part of the prefecture Hyndburn in Lancashire today. It was created in 1876 after a meeting in a public pub and played from then on in Moorhead Park.
After a dispute with the English Football Association " Football Association " because of the payment of money to a player, the club in 1883 was excluded from the Association of games and a year later was part of a revolt with the aim to establish professional football. He was on April 17, 1888 one of twelve founding members of the " Football League" and closed his first season with six wins, eight draws and eight defeats from seventh place. Here, the FC Accrington for Blackburn Rovers and Everton of each first opponent was in a league game.
The best season graduated from the Accrington FC in the 1889/90 season, when the club finished the season in sixth place. After that, the club could no longer continue to hold in the English Championship and closed the season 1892/93 on the penultimate position from. The 0-1 defeat against Sheffield United in a " test game", as in the early days called a play-off game at the Tent Bridge finally sealed the relegation from the Elite League. However, rather than play in the future in the second class Second Division, the FC Accrington pulled completely back from the Football League.
Only a short time later multiplied the financial problems of the club, which should eventually lead to the rapid end. By 1896, FC put the Accrington game operation in the Lancashire Combination gone, but then "Senior Cup Lancashire " moved to a 12:12 defeat on January 14 back to FC Darwen in. Until the beginning of the season 1921/22, should initially no other team from Accrington to follow in the Football League, until the Accrington Stanley Football Club - who had been originally a local rivals FC Accrington - joined the Lancashire Combination from the Football League.
The club Accrington Stanley, who was originally founded as " Stanley Villa ," " adopted" after the collapse of rivals the city name and took over even as a result of its own bankruptcy in 1964, fully named " Accrington Football Club ". However, this association could never make it to the top division in England, and up to the common origin of Accrington, otherwise there is no connection between the two football clubs, although in this respect in the public perception sporadic mix-ups.
- Former English football club
- Sports Club ( Lancashire )
- Founded in 1876