Northwich Victoria F.C.

Northwich Victoria ( officially: Northwich Victoria Football Club ) - also known as The Vic and The Trickies - is an English football club based in Northwich, Cheshire, which in the Northern since 2012 Premier League Division One North, the eight highest league level in England plays. The venue of the association is the 5,088 -seat end of Victoria Stadium.

Club history

The club was founded in 1874 and is one of the oldest football clubs in England. In the early years from 1880 to 1889 the team was able to take part in the Welsh Cup six times, but was down to two runners-up in 1882 and 1889 without significant success. The finals were lost against the Welsh clubs NEWI Cefn Druids and Bangor City. The club participated in the year 1890 for the first time in the regular league play part and played as one of the founding members of the Combination. In the 1891/92 season the second rank has been achieved in the combination, and the following season the club was added to the Football League Second Division, then the second highest English league. After two mediocre years in the Second Division in 1894, the club returned to the Combination.

Northwich Victoria was then represented nearly 20 years in the same league, in 1912, the recording was followed in the Lancashire Combination Division Two. After just one season, the team for the Lancashire Combination Division One skilled. After the game operation 1915-1919 was interrupted because of the First World War, the club joined the league again and joined the Cheshire County League game. The team was represented for many years in the league, the biggest success was able to in 1957 are recognized as Northwich won the championship of the Cheshire County League.

In 1968 ended with the recording of the association in the newly formed Northern Premier League, a nearly 50 -year-long era in the Cheshire County League. In the following eleven seasons in the Northern Premier League to Northwich was mostly placed on the top half and won 1976/77 the second rank. Winning the championship was missed only because of the poorer a hit on goal difference.

In 1979 the club undertook with the entry into the newly formed Alliance Premier League, the predecessor of today's Football Conference, a further ligand exchange. Northwich Victoria could in the following years in the FA Trophy contest three finals. During 1983 the team still failed to Telford United, the trophy was won a year later with the final victory over Bangor City for the first time. The third finals succeeded in 1996. However Northwich losing to Macclesfield Town and missed winning the title. The association remained even after the renaming of the Alliance Premier League in 1986 to its present name Football Conference League received and attended mostly moderate midfield ranks.

After it became clear missed in the season 2003/ 04 with only 23 points in the league, Northwich ten points were deducted for the 2004/ 05 season due to financial difficulties. The team could not secure the league and rose as 19th in the Conference North from. After an impressive season in the Conference North by winning the league, the club managed to direct resurgence. The team spent three years in the league after the 2008 /09 season the team was third last to return to the Conference North. Also in the season 2009/10 the club struggled to continue to survive financially and received from the Football Conference once again imposed a ten-point penalty. The team started therefore with ten penalty points in the season.

End of the season the club finished in twelfth place in the Conference North and would thus ensured the league on sports careers, but Northwich Victoria was excluded due to financial problems from the league 's sixth- highest division and classified then a league level deeper into the Northern Premier League Premier Division. Due to this, could at the 21st place classified Harrogate Town avoid relegation. Sporty significantly more successful the team designed the 2011/ 12, which ended after 42 games with a placement on the second and final ranking of the regular qualifications for the promotion playoffs. However, the League joined the team due to violations of the financial guidelines of the Northern Premier League Premier Division of the playoffs and affiliated Northwich Victoria for the 2012/13 season, a league stage deeper into the Northern Premier League Division One North one.

League membership

Achievements

  • Cheshire County League winner: 1956/57,
  • FA Trophy winners: 1984
  • Conference North winner: 2005/ 06

Known player

Bangor City F.C. Macclesfield Town F.C. Felix Bastians Michael Byrne (footballer born 1985)
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