Bristol Rovers F.C.

Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English football club based in Bristol. The club currently meets in the Football League Two. Bristol Rovers cooperates with Bristol Academy, a club from the FA Women's Premier League. The Pirates play their home games at Memorial Stadium.

History

The club was founded in 1883 under the name The Black Arabs. The name was cribbed from a rugby team that played under the name The Arabs on an adjacent field and supplemented because of the black jerseys to "Black". After briefly Eastville Rovers and Bristol Eastville Rovers was called, they gave in 1897 the present name.

From 1899 the Bristol Rovers took part in the game operating in the Southern Football League and in 1920 was a founding member of the Football League Third Division.

In 1953, first won the title in the Third Division South. Until 1962 it remained in the Second Division, before being relegated again. In 1972, the win was in the Watney Cup, when they defeated Sheffield United on penalties. Two years later succeeded as a table runner, the renewed rise in the Division Two, from which one though descended again after 7 years. 1989 we reached the final climb of the playoffs, but only in 1990 managed to rise again. 1993 you had but again in the lower division, which is now renamed as Division Two due to the inception of the Premier League.

1995, they again reached the final of the rise playoffs, but failed. A year later they moved into a new stadium, Memorial Stadium, which was until 1998 owned by Bristol Rugby.

2001 rose from Bristol Rovers in the Viertklassigkeit and a year later they reached with the 23th place in Division Four, the lowest finishing position in the history of the club. The return to the third English League Football League One now called succeeded by the rise in the 2006/07 season, the team finally managed to secure the play-off final against Shrewsbury Town with a 3-1 victory at Wembley.

Known player

Women's Soccer

The Bristol Academy Women's Football Club (short: Bristol Academy WFC) has existed since 1998, the club has close links with the Bristol Rovers and Bristol Academy of Sport.. The first team plays in the FA Women's Premier League National Division, the highest division in the English women's football.

History

Before the club was founded in 1998 there were only girls soccer at the Bristol Rovers. This meant that players who completed the age of 16, had to leave the club. To change this, you merged with the Welsh club Cable -Tel LFC. The merger received the Bristol Rovers WFC as the club is now called, a place in the South West Combination League, the third highest division. Played on the training grounds of Bristol Rovers.

2001, the ascent was made ​​in the second division. The FA Women's Cup they reached the semi-finals and surprisingly met Arsenal. 3,000 spectators, to this day club record, they lost 3-0. Two years later, the team's promotion to the top flight. In the first season they managed to barely avoid relegation. Then you could establish and managed two fifth places in a row.

2003 and 2005 the club again reached the semi-finals in the FA Women 's Cup. Both times they left as losers on the pitch. 2003, it foundered on Fulham in 2005 pulled one against Charlton Athletic lose out. Successful one was in Gloucestershire FA Women's Challenge Cup, which one only once failed to win since the team was founded. In 2004 they lost against Bristol City. This was the first defeat against local rivals.

Since 2005, the club got its present name Bristol Academy. Due to the name change will celebrate the investments of the Bristol Academy of Sport. Despite the new name, the players continue to wear the jersey of Bristol Rovers and continue to be called " The Gas Girls".

Achievements

  • FA Women's Cup semi-finalists in 2001, 2003, 2005
  • Promotion to the FA Women's Premier League National Division 2003
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