Chester City F.C.
Chester City ( officially: Chester City Football Club ) - also known as The Blues - was an English football club based in Chester, a town in the North West of England, near the border with Wales.
History
The Chester City Football Club was established in 1885 following a merger of the two clubs Chester Rovers and Old King's Scholars. By 1890, the club played only friendly matches, before he joined the Combination League. In 1895 the club won the Cheshire Senior Cup, 1889 lost to the old sports field. 1901 found the club a new venue at the Whipcord Lane and won the 1908 Welsh Cup and in 1909 the Combination League. From 1908 the club played at Sealand Road, since 1990 in the Saunders Honda Stadium.
Last Chester City played in the Conference National. Since the club but due to financial irregularities were deducted 25 points, a league appeared excluded. The club was disbanded on 10 March 2010. As the successor of the club Chester FC was formed.
Well-known former players
- Ghana Junior Agogo
- Scotland Arthur Albiston
- Malta Luke Dimech
- England Lee Dixon
- Luxembourg Stéphane Gillet
- United States Ian Joy
- Wales Ian Rush
- England Mike Salmon
Coach
- England Charlie Hewitt 1930-36
- England Harry Mansley 1936 ( interim coach )
- Scotland Alex Raisbeck 1936-38
- England Frank Brown 1938-53
- England Louis Page 1953-56
- Scotland John Harris 1956-59
- England Stan Pearson 1959-61
- England Bill Lambton 1962-63
- Ken Roberts Wales 1968-76
- England Alan Oakes 1976-82
- Wales Cliff Sear 1982 ( interim coach in 1984 )
- England John Sainty 1982-83
- England Trevor Storton 1983-84 ( interim coach )
- England John McGrath 1984
- England Mick Speight 1984-85
- England Harry McNally 1985-92
- England Graham Barrow 1992-94 & 2000-01
- England Mike Pejic 1994-95
- England Derek Mann 1995
- Kevin Ratcliffe Wales 1995-99
- United States Terry Smith 1999-2000
- England Ian Atkins 2000
- England Gordon Hill 2001
- England Dean Spink, Owen Brown and Andy Porter 2001-02 ( interim coach )
- Scotland Steve Mungall 2001
- England Mark Wright 2002-04 & 2006-07 & since 11/2008
- England Ray Mathias 2004 ( Interim)
- Wales Ian Rush 2004-05
- England Dave Bell 2005 ( Interim)
- England Keith Curle 2005-06
- Wales Simon Davies 2007 (Interim ), 2008
- Scotland Bobby Williamson 2007-2008