Main Sponsor Umbro is a British sportswear and football equipment supplier based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. The company is currently a subsidiary of Iconix Brand Group. Umbro designs, sources, and markets football-related apparel, footwear, and equipment. Its products are sold in over 90 countries worldwide. The company was founded by Harold Humphreys, along with his brother Wallace in a small workshop in Wilmslow, Cheshire, inspired by the growing interest in football witnessed nationwide. The name "Umbro" is a quasi-portmanteau inspired from Humphreys Brothers Clothing. Umbro's kit debut was in the 1934 FA Cup final, when both teams Manchester City and Portsmouth wore uniforms designed and manufactured by the company. Other teams supplied by Umbro during the 1930s and 1940s were Sheffield United, Preston North End, Manchester United and Blackpool. Umbro was the official sports manufacturer of the English FA Cup and official sponsor of The FA, being the exclusive supplier of balls to the body's leagues. In 1952, the British team at the Summer Olympics wore Umbro kits, tailored for the needs of their individual sports. Umbro would supply kits for the British Olympics team for the next 20 years. In 1957 Umbro entered the tennis market, producing sports clothing in collaboration with player Ted Tinling. This collaboration extended for three decades. Another sportsman who collaborated with Umbro was Manchester United manager Matt Busby, in 1959. That same year the company started to sell its junior boys' kits, a set of shirt, shorts and socks that would allow young players to wear the same look as their footballing idols. Brazil became the first FIFA World Cup champion to wear uniforms by Umbro in 1958. Two years later, Manchester United Scottish player Denis Law signed an exclusive agreement with the brand, becoming the first footballer to be sponsored by Umbro. The England national team won its first title in 1966 wearing kits by Umbro (the deal had been signed in 1954). Of the 16 teams that competed, 15 wore kit manufactured by Umbro, the only exception being the USSR. At the same time, 85% of British football teams wore uniforms by the company, including Celtic, the first British team to win a European Cup in 1967. Liverpool FC won the first four of their five European Cups while wearing Umbro kits, in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1984. In 1974 Umbro's founder, Harold Humphreys, died. His sons John and Stuart took over the running of the company. The England national team wore Umbro shirts by choice until 1974, until the Football Association, encouraged by the England manager Don Revie, sold the jersey manufacturing rights to Admiral. After more than a decade wearing Admiral kits, the England national team signed with Umbro again in 1984. In 1986 Umbro began to manufacture its own football boots. The company added footballers Alan Shearer and Michael Owen (who was only 14 years old) to its list of sponsored athletes. In 1994 Brazil won its 4th FIFA World Cup title in the United States and club teams AFC Ajax (in 1995), and Manchester United F.C. (in 1999) obtained the UEFA Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup, in Tokyo, all of them wearing Umbro kits. In the United States, Umbro was the majority owner (94%) of United Soccer Leagues, the parent organization for North America's lower division men's soccer (tiers two through four in the American Soccer Pyramid), and the second tier women's league (W-League) and youth league (Super Y-League). During the 2009 USL First Division season, the Carolina RailHawks, Charleston Battery, Vancouver Whitecaps, Rochester Rhinos, Austin Aztex, and Puerto Rico Islanders all wore Umbro kits. During the 2012 USLPro season, the Dayton Dutch Lions wore Umbro. In October 2007, JJB Sports bought a 10.1% stake in Umbro in a move to protect its stake in the market for England football shirts.
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Football in London Football is the most popular sport, both in terms of participants and spectators, in London. London has several of England's leading football clubs, and the city is home to thirteen professional teams and more than 80 amateur leagues regulated by the London Football Association. Most London clubs are named after the district in which they play or used to play. Fulham is London's oldest club still playing professionally, having been founded in 1879. Royal Arsenal were London's first team to turn professional in 1891. Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur are London's most successful teams in domestic and European competitions. Between them, they've won a total of 84 titles and trophies. Tottenham Hotspur were the first club in Britain to win a European trophy, winning the Cup Winners Cup in 1963. Wembley Stadium, England's national stadium is in London. It is the home venue of the England national football team and has traditionally hosted the FA Cup Final since 1923. On 19 May 2012, Chelsea became the first London club to become European champions in the modern era after winning the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League. History The playing of team ball games (almost certainly including football) was first recorded in London by William FitzStephen around 1174-1183. He described the activities of London youths during the annual festival of Shrove Tuesday. The playing of some form of football in London has been well documented since its creation in 1314. Regular references to the game occurred throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including the first reference to word "football" in English when it was outlawed by King Henry IV of England in 1409. Early games were probably disorganised and violent. In the sixteenth century, the headmaster of St Paul's School Richard Mulcaster is credited with taking mob football and transforming it into organised and refereed team football. In 1581 he described in English his game of football, which included smaller teams, referees, set positions and even a coach. The playing of some form of football in London has been well documented since its creation in 1314. Regular references to the game occurred throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including the first reference to word "football" in English when it was outlawed by King Henry IV of England in 1409. Early games were probably disorganised and violent. In the sixteenth century, the headmaster of St Paul's School Richard Mulcaster is credited with taking mob football and transforming it into organised and refereed team football. In 1581 he described in English his game of football, which included smaller teams, referees, set positions and even a coach. Initially, football in London was dominated by amateur teams, drawing their membership from former public schoolboys but gradually working-class sides came to the forefront. Woolwich Arsenal was London's first professional team, becoming so in 1891, a move which saw them boycotted by the amateur London Football Association. Other London clubs soon followed Arsenal's footsteps in turning professional, including Millwall (1893), Tottenham Hotspur (1895), Fulham (1898) and West Ham United (1898). In the meantime, Woolwich Arsenal went on to be the first London club to join the Football League, in 1893. The following year, the Southern League was founded and many of its members would go on to join the Football League. In 1901 Tottenham Hotspur became the first club from London to win the FA Cup in the professional era, although it would not be until 1931 that a London side would win the Football League, the team in question being Arsenal (having moved to Highbury in 1913 and dropped the "Woolwich" from their name). Historically, the London clubs have not accumulated as many trophies as those from North West England, such as Liverpool and Manchester United; however, today Arsenal and Chelsea are regarded as two of the Premier League's "big four" alongside them. In 2003-04 they became the first pair of London clubs to finish first and second in the top flight, with Arsenal winning. In 2004-05 they did so again, this time with Chelsea winning. The 2009 10 Premier League saw Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham finish in the top 4 places, the first time ever that three London clubs had done so, and it meant that that all three qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Before Chelsea's recent rise in fortunes the two highest profile London clubs were Arsenal and their long-standing North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur, both of whom were considered to be members of English football's "big five" for most of the post-war period. All three clubs occupy the top ten in the all-time top-flight table for England Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea being third, eighth and ninth respectively.
The Complete List of Football Clubs in London [A] Argonauts F.C. Arsenal F.C. [B] Barking & East Ham United F.C. Barking F.C. Barkingside F.C. Barnet F.C. St Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospitals FC Beaumont Athletic F.C. Bedfont & Feltham F.C. Bedfont F.C. Bedfont Sports F.C. Bedfont Town F.C. Brentford F.C. Brentford F.C. Reserves and Academy Bridon Ropes F.C. Bromley F.C. [C] Carshalton Athletic F.C. Casuals F.C. CB Hounslow United F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chelsea F.C. Civil Service F.C. Clapham Rovers F.C. Clapton F.C. Cockfosters F.C. Colliers Wood United F.C. Corinthian F.C. Corinthian-Casuals F.C. Coulsdon Town F.C. Cray Wanderers F.C. Crescent Rovers F.C. Croydon Athletic F.C. AFC Croydon Athletic Croydon F.C. Crusaders F.C. (London) Crystal Palace F.C. (1861) Crystal Palace F.C. [D] Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. Dagenham F.C. Dulwich Hamlet F.C. [E] East Ham United F.C. Enfield Town F.C. Erith & Belvedere F.C. Erith Town F.C. [F] Finchley F.C. Fisher F.C. Fulham F.C. [P] [G] Greenhouse London F.C. Greenwich Borough F.C. 2nd Grenadier Guards F.C. 3rd Grenadier Guards F.C. The Gymnastic Society [H] Hadley F.C. Hampstead Heathens F.C. Hampton & Richmond Borough F.C. Hanwell Town F.C. Hanworth Villa F.C. Haringey Borough F.C. Harrow Borough F.C. Harrow Chequers F.C. A.F.C. Hayes Hayes & Yeading United F.C. Hendon F.C. Hendon F.C. (1876) Hillingdon Borough F.C. Holmesdale F.C. A.F.C. Hornchurch Hornchurch F.C. Hounslow Borough F.C. Hounslow F.C. [I] Ilford F.C. [K] Kentish Town F.C. [L] Lausanne Football Club (Dulwich) Leyton Orient F.C. Leytonstone F.C. London APSA F.C. London Bari F.C. London Caledonians F.C. London Lions F.C. London Tigers F.C. London Welsh F.C. London XI [M] Metropolitan Police F.C. Millwall F.C. [N] N.N. Club North Greenford United F.C. North Sheen Recreation Ground Northwood F.C. N cont. Nunhead F.C. [O] Old Castle Swifts F.C.
Perceval House Philosophy Football FC Phoenix Sports F.C. [Q] Queens Park Rangers F.C. [R] Rainham Town F.C. Rayners Lane F.C. Raynes Park Vale F.C. Redbridge F.C. Royal Ordnance Factories F.C. [S] Senrab F.C. Shepherd's Bush F.C. South Kilburn F.C. South Norwood F.C. Southall F.C. Southern United F.C. Sport London e Benfica F.C. Sporting Bengal United F.C. Stonewall F.C. Surbiton F.C. Sutton United F.C. [T] Thames A.F.C. Thames Ironworks F.C. Thamesmead Town F.C. Tokyngton Manor F.C. Tooting & Mitcham United F.C. Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Tower Hamlets F.C. Defunct Clubs in London Casuals Clapham Rovers Corinthian Croydon Athletic Croydon Common Edgware Town Fischer Athletic Hayes Leyton London XI Thames Upton Park Wanderers Winbledon Yeading Source: Wikipedia There are also a huge number of minor London clubs playing outside the top eight levels of English football. Hackney Marshes in east London, home to many amateur sides, is reportedly the single largest collection of football pitches in the world, with 100 separate pitches. [U] Upton Park F.C. Uxbridge F.C. [V] VCD Athletic F.C. [W] Waltham Forest F.C. Walthamstow Avenue F.C. Wanderers F.C. Welling United F.C. West Ham United F.C. Willesden F.C. Wimbledon F.C. AFC Wimbledon Wingate & Finchley F.C. Wingate F.C. Woodford Town F.C. Worcester Park F.C.
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Coach: Alex Bracali Uxbridge Football Club are a football club representing Uxbridge but now based in West Drayton, in the London Borough of Hillingdon England. They were established in 1871 and are one of the oldest clubs in the South of England. They were founder members of the Southern League Division Two in 1894 and have reached the 2nd round of the FA Cup once; in the 1873 74 season. The club is affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association and is a FA chartered standard club. They are currently members of the Southern Football League Division One Central.
Coach: Federico Solari Northwood F.C. is an English football club based in Northwood in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The club is affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association. They play their home games at Northwood Park Stadium also known as Chestnut Avenue - the road on which the ground is located. The club will play in the Southern Football League Division One Central for the 2013 14 season having finished 13th the previous campaign. Gary Meakin who took the job in March 2011, departed in November 2012 to take the manager's position at Isthmian League Premier Division side Wingate & Finchley, before being replaced by former Northwood player Mark Burgess just four days later.
Coach: Andrea Tonet Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English football club based in Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London. They currently play in the Football League Championship. The club was founded on 9 June 1905. A number of youth clubs in the south east London area, including East Street Mission and Blundell Mission, combined to form Charlton Athletic. The club play at The Valley in Charlton, where they have played since 1919, apart from one year in Catford, during 1923 24, and seven years at Crystal Palace and West Ham United between 1985 and 1992. Charlton share local South London derbies with Millwall and Crystal Palace, and a rivalry with West Ham United. The club's traditional kit consists of red shirts, white shorts and red socks and their most commonly used nickname is The Addicks. Charlton turned professional in 1920 and first entered the Football League in 1921. Since then they have had four separate periods in the top flight of English football: 1936 1957, 1986 1990, 1998 1999 and 2000 2007. Historically, Charlton's most successful period was the 1930s, when the club's highest league finishes were recorded, including runners-up of the First Division in 1937. After World War II, the club reached the FA Cup Final twice, losing in 1946 and winning in 1947.
Coach: Stefano Musso Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, southwest London. Founded in 1879, they play in the English Premier League, and are currently in their 13th consecutive season in the division. They are the oldest established football team from London playing in the Premier League. The club has spent twenty-four seasons in English football's top division, the majority of that in two spells during the 1960s and 2000s. The latter spell was associated with former chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed, after the club had climbed up from the fourth tier in the 1990s. Fulham have never won a major honour, although they have reached two major finals. In 1975, as a Second Division team, they contested the FA Cup final for the only time in their history, losing 2 0 to West Ham United. Fulham reached the 2010 Europa League final, which they contested with Atlético Madrid in Hamburg, losing 2 1 after extra time. The club has produced many English greats including Johnny Haynes, George Cohen, Bobby Robson, Rodney Marsh and Alan Mullery. They play at Craven Cottage, a ground on the banks of the River Thames in Fulham which has been their home since 1896. Fulham's training ground is located near Motspur Park, where the club's Academy is also situated.
Coach: Enrico Demutti Barnet Football Club is an English, Professional football club based in Barnet, London. For the 2013 2014 season, the club will participate in the Conference Premier, the fifth tier of English football. The current head coach is Edgar Davids. Between 1907 and 2013 the club have played at Underhill Stadium, situated in the town of Barnet within the London Borough of Barnet. The club moved to The Hive Stadium, situated in Canons Park in the London Borough of Harrow, for the 2013 14 season. The 1992 93 season is widely regarded as Barnet's most eventful season. The club were on the verge of expulsion for failing to pay their players' wages as well as failing to meet a deadline for a 50,000 fine. In spite of these problems Barnet won promotion to Division Two, but the Bees were unable to sustain themselves at this level and went down after one season with just five league wins in the campaign. Barry Fry was the manager who secured Barnet's promotion successes in the early 1990s. In March 2004 they were in one of the play-off positions of the Football Conference but failed to gain promotion to League Two, the lowest flight of the Football League. In the 2004 05 season they won the Football Conference, to return to the Football League after an absence of four years, where they remained until the end of the 2012/13 season. Before that they had been members of the Football League for ten years. A number of Barnet players have gone on to represent Premiership clubs. They include Dougie Freedman, Marlon King, Andy Clarke, Linvoy Primus, Maik Taylor, Mark Gower and Jason Puncheon. A number of players have also played for Barnet towards the end of their careers including Jimmy Greaves, Mark Lawrenson, David Hillier, Alan Pardew, John Oster and Edgar Davids. The club are one of the three main powers in the annual Herts Senior Cup; the others being Watford and Stevenage.
Coach: Fabrizio Ravazzani Tottenham Hotspur Football Club commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English football club located in Tottenham, London, that plays in the Premier League. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane. Its newly developed training ground is in Bulls Cross on the northern borders of the London Borough of Enfield. Founded in 1882, Tottenham won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901, making it the only non-league club to do so since the formation of the Football League. Tottenham was the first club in the 20th century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960 61 season. After successfully defending the FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 it became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition the European Cup Winners' Cup. In 1967 it won the FA Cup for a third time in the 1960s. In the 1970s Tottenham won the League Cup on two occasions and was the inaugural winner of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the first British club to win two different major European trophies. In the 1980s Spurs won several trophies: the FA Cup twice, FA Community Shield and the UEFA Cup in 1984. In the 1990s the club won the FA Cup and the League Cup. When it won the League Cup once more in 2008, it meant that it had won a major trophy in each of the last six decades an achievement only matched by Manchester United. The club's Latin motto is Audere est Facere (lit: "To Dare Is to Do"), and its emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football. The club has a long-standing rivalry with near neighbours Arsenal, which is known as the North London derby.
Coach: Andrea Bottiglioni West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, East London, England currently playing in the Premier League, England's top tier of football. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current Boleyn Ground stadium. They initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before eventually joining the full Football League in 1919 and subsequently enjoyed promotion to the top flight for the 1923 season. 1923 also saw the club feature in the first FA Cup Final to be held at Wembley against Bolton Wanderers. In 1940 the team won the inaugural Football League War Cup. The club have won the FA Cup three times: in 1964, 1975 and 1980 as well as being runners-up twice, in 1923 and 2006. In 1965, they won the European Cup Winners Cup, and in 1999 they won the Intertoto Cup. They are one of eight clubs existing today to never compete below the second tier of English football, however, unlike the other seven, West Ham has never won the league title. The club's best final league position is third place in the 1985 86 First Division. Three West Ham players were considered an important factor behind England's triumph in the 1966 World Cup. England's captain at the time was West Ham's Bobby Moore, and both goalscorers in the final were then current players Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters.
Coach: Gabriele Ciola Queens Park Rangers Football Club (usually referred to as QPR) is an English professional football club based in White City, London. Their honours include winning the League Cup in 1967, being runners-up in the old First Division in 1975 76 and reaching the final of the FA Cup in 1982, where they lost 1 0 to Tottenham Hotspur in a replay after they drew 1 1 in the initial final match. Queens Park Rangers Football Club were founded in 1882 after the merger of Christchurch Rangers and St. Judes Institute, and their traditional colours are blue and white. In the early years after the club's formation in their original home of Queen's Park, games were played at many different grounds until finally the club settled into their current location at Loftus Road. Owing to their proximity to other west London clubs, QPR maintain long-standing rivalries with several other clubs in the area. The most notable of these are Chelsea, Fulham and Brentford, with whom they contest what are known as West London Derbies. Outside London, QPR also traditionally share rivalries with Watford, Luton and Cardiff, although in recent years these fixtures have become less prominent.
Coach: Massimo Bozzano Millwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in South Bermondsey, south-east London, that plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its name despite having last played in the Millwall area of the Isle of Dogs in 1910. From then until 1993 the club played at the Den, a now-demolished stadium in New Cross, before moving to its current home stadium nearby in South Bermondsey, also called the Den. The traditional club crest is a lion rampant, referred to in the team's nickname "The Lions". Millwall's traditional kit consists of blue shirts, white shorts and blue socks. The current strip celebrates their 20th anniversary playing at the Den; it is a dark navy blue shirt with white pin stripes, white shorts and navy socks. Millwall have a longstanding rivalry with West Ham United. The local derby between the two sides has been contested almost 100 times since 1899. Millwall's supporters have an association with hooliganism, with numerous films having been made fictionalising their notoriety. The fans are renowned for their chant "No one likes us, we don't care". In 2004, the team reached the final of the FA Cup and, in doing so, qualified for the UEFA Cup the following season, playing in Europe for the first time in their history. The club has also reached FA Cup semi-finals on another four occasions, in 1900, 1903, 1937 and 2013. Millwall have spent the majority of their existence competing in the second or third tier of the Football League. The team spent two seasons in the top flight between 1988 90, in which the club achieved its highest ever finish of tenth place in the First Division. Based on all results during the club's 86 seasons in the Football League from 1920 21 to 2012 13, Millwall are ranked as the fortieth most successful club in English football.
Coach: Paolo Pazzi Crystal Palace Football Club is an English professional football club based in South Norwood, London. During the 2012 13 Football League season, Palace finished fifth and gained promotion to the Premier League through the play-offs. Their colours are red and blue, although they had adopted a claret and pale blue strip of Aston Villa in their early years and later played in white shirts inspired by Real Madrid. The club was founded at The Crystal Palace in 1905 to introduce a team to the local population, who regularly supported the FA Cup Final in sizeable numbers. Failing to gain election to The Football League, Palace instead joined the Southern Football League Second Division, playing home games at The Crystal Palace, inspiration for the club's initial nickname, "The Glaziers". Palace won the Division and promotion in their first season, and played in the Southern League First Division for the next fifteen years. In 1920 the Southern League Division One formed the Football League Third Division. Palace won the division and gained promotion to the Second Division, where they spent four seasons before suffering relegation to the Third Division South. In 1958 a league re-organisation saw Palace become founder members of Division Four. Over the next eleven years the club moved from the lowest rung of English Football to the highest, reaching the First Division in 1968. In 1973 the club modernised its image, changing the nickname from The Glaziers to "The Eagles" and ending the 68-year association with claret and blue by introducing the red-and-blue vertical stripes now associated with the club. The club stabilised itself in the top two divisions with successive promotions in 1977 and 1979. The period from 1989 91 saw Steve Coppell guide the team to an FA Cup Final and third place in the First Division. Palace became founder members of the Premier League in 1992, but were relegated the same season. Palace entered administration in both 2000 and 2010, and are now owned by a consortium of four. The club achieved promotion back to the Premier League under manager Ian Holloway with a 1 0 win over Watford in the Football League play-offs in May 2013. Crystal Palace initially played their games in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, but the First World War saw them forced to move out, and they enjoyed a number of seasons at both the Herne Hill Velodrome and The Nest. Since 1925, Palace have played their home games at Selhurst Park. They have a fierce rivalry with M23 neighbours Brighton & Hove Albion, with whom they have contested the M23 derby 98 times. They also enjoy rivalries with fellow South London teams Millwall and Charlton Athletic. The club's kit is currently made by Avec, a subsidiary of Nike, and the shirt sponsor is GAC Logistics. The club captain is Paddy McCarthy and the current player of the year is Mile Jedinak. Edmund Goodman is the club's longest serving manager, and Jim Cannon has made the most appearances for the club. Peter Simpson is the club's top scorer for both one season and overall, netting 54 and 165 respectively. The highest transfer fee received has been for Wilfried Zaha from Manchester United in January 2013 and the highest paid has been to Peterborough United for Dwight Gayle in July 2013.
Coach: Mauro Cremona Welling United Football Club is an English football club, based in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley. The club's first team currently play in the Conference National. Welling United Football Club was founded in 1963. The club began as a youth team playing in local league football on a park pitch, which gradually expanded and began playing Saturday football in the London Spartan League. In 1977 Welling moved to the Park View Road ground, which had previously belonged to the defunct Bexley United (historically called Bexleyheath & Welling). They joined the Athenian League in 1978. In 1981 they progressed to the Southern Football League Southern Division. After just one season at this level the club found itself in the Southern League Premier Division after the league was re-organised. In 1985 86 they won the league title by 23 points and were promoted to the Football Conference Although they struggled in the Conference, only twice finishing above 11th place in 14 seasons, they did enjoy cup success during this period, reaching the first round proper of the FA Cup in six successive seasons, on one occasion knocking out Kent s only Football League side, Gillingham. They also made one third round appearance, losing 1 0 to Blackburn Rovers. The Wings dropped out of the Conference when they were relegated on the last day of the season in 1999 2000 and returned to the Southern League. In the 2003 04 season, under the management of former England World Cup player Paul Parker, the Wings finished in the top half of the Southern League Premier Division and were therefore able to claim a place in the newly formed Conference South. The first season at this level proved a struggle, and with the Wings rooted to the foot of the table for the first three months of the season Parker left the club by mutual consent. Welling playing Millwall in a pre-season friendly at Park View Road. Former Coventry City and Republic of Ireland player Liam Daish took charge of the team on a caretaker basis before the permanent position was handed to former Norwich City and Gillingham defender Adrian Pennock, who narrowly missed out on taking the club into the promotion play-offs. Pennock left the club at the end of the 2006 07 season. His last game managing the Wings finished in a 1 1 draw at home to Hayes. Pennock joined Stoke City in a coaching position under his former Gillingham manager, Tony Pulis. On 16 May 2007, Welling United appointed Neil Smith as the new first team manager. However after only seven months in charge Smith parted company with the club on 7 January 2008. It was mutually agreed between the club and Smith that his reign as Wings boss would end. Andy Ford was appointed the new manager of the Wings on 31 January 2008. Despite losing 6 2 to Cambridge City in his first game in charge, Ford guided the Wings to safety and they eventually finished 16th. Welling finished 7th in the Conference South in 2008/09 under the guidance of Ford. After a poor start to the 2009 10 season Ford resigned stating he didn't think he could achieve what he wanted on the current budget. Jamie Day was announced as the new player/manager in November 2009. On 12 August 2010, the club was served with a winding-up petition by HMRC, due for a hearing later that month. The Wings were given 14 weeks to pay the outstanding debt to the HMRC, and thanks almost entirely to the supporters were able to raise 60,000 to clear all monies owed. During this period, in a Football Conference Hearing on 16 September 2010, Welling United admitted to a misconduct charge in connection with the outstanding HMRC debt. Resultantly an immediate deduction of 5 points was enforced on the club together with a suspended 5,000 fine. Despite the Wings having a transfer embargo enforced upon them and also being deducted 5 points by the Football Conference, all within four weeks of the start of 2010 11 season, Jamie Day's side were competitively competing for the Conference South title. However, even though Welling United were in the top 5 for almost half of the season, a string of poor results in the final month of the campaign saw the Wings miss out on a play-off place by one point, with a final position of 6th. Player manager Jamie Day with the Conference South trophy after winning the title in 2013. The 2011 12 season ended with Welling in 3rd place and after defeating Sutton United 2 1 on aggregate in the play off semi-finals they narrowly missed promotion in the final, going down 0 1 to Dartford at Princes Park. Welling made a return to the top level of non-league football the following season after clinching the Conference South title, 13 years after they last played at the fifth tier of English football.
Coach: Andrea Barbieri North Greenford United Football Club is a football club based in Greenford in the London Borough of Ealing, England. They play in the Southern Football League Division One Central. The club is affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association. Established in 1944, originally as a youth club and started playing senior football in the 1946-47 season when they joined the Hanwell and District League, finishing as runners-up at the first attempt. A season later the club joined the Harrow Wembley League, and winning the senior division of that league at the end of the 1954-55 season. The club then played in the Middlesex League Premier Division In the 1982-83 season they won the Middlesex League Premier Division and gained promotion to division one of the London Spartan League. At the end of the 1987-88 season the club gained promotion to the premier division of the London Spartan League. At the end of the1993-94 season the club left the Spartan league, and dropped down a level to the Middlesex County Football League premier Division. The club then lost its Senior Status by the Middlesex County Football Association and spent the next few seasons upgrading their ground to move from intermediate status back up to Senior Status. This work culminated in the club being elected to the Combined Counties Football League for the start of the 2002-03 season. The club finished as runners-up in the league in their third season in the league. That season was also the same that they made their debut in the FA Cup, making it to the First Qualifying round before being knocked out by Hemel Hempstead Town. The club then repeated this finish four seasons later for the 2008-09 season. The following season the club went one better as they become champions of the Combined Counties Football League, and earn promotion to Division one Central of the Southern Football League. They also completed a double by winning the Middlesex Senior Charity Cup when they beat Enfield Town 1-0 in the final at The Beveree stadium. North Greenford United finished 18th in the 2010 11 campaign, in their first season at that level. After a disappointing opening half to the 2011 12 campaign, the club announced that they had parted company with manager Steve Ringrose who had been in charge for three years. On Boxing Day 2011, the club confirmed the appointment of ex Chelsea, Wimbledon and Crystal Palace striker Neil Shipperley as their new manager. He was assisted by ex-chelsea team-mate Mark Nicholls. However upon the conclusion of the season, Shipperley resigned to look for a management position at a higher level after successfully guiding the side to safety. The club appointed former Bedfont Town midfielder and caretaker boss Jon-Barrie Bates as his successor in early June. Bates was sacked after just eight games following the club's poor start to the season paving the way for the return of Shipperley for a second spell as manager. On 17 August 2013, former professional goalkeeper Dave Beasant came out of retirement for one game at the age of 54, to appear for North Greenford United in their 2-0 defeat to Chalfont St Peter.
Coach: Fabio Pierpaoli Arsenal Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Holloway, London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups. Arsenal holds the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight and would be placed first in an aggregated league of the entire 20th century. It is the second side to complete an English top flight season unbeaten (in the 2003 04 season) and the only one to do so across 38 matches. Arsenal was founded in 1886 in Woolwich and in 1893 became the first club from the south of England to join the Football League. In 1913, it moved north across the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. In the 1930s the club won five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. After a lean period in the post-war years it won the League and FA Cup Double, in the 1970 71 season, and in the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century won two more Doubles and reached the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final. Arsenal has a long-standing rivalry with North London neighbours Tottenham Hotspur, with whom it contests the North London derby. Arsenal is the fourth most valuable association football club in the world as of 2013, valued at over $1.3 billion.
Coach: Valentino Spagnolo Leyton Orient F.C.are a professional football club in Leyton, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England. They play in Football League One, the third tier in the English football league system, and are known to their fans as the O's. Leyton Orient have spent one season in the top flight of English football, in 1962 63. In 1978, Orient reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the only time in their history, under the management of Jimmy Bloomfield, but were beaten 3 0 by Arsenal. Between October 1993 and September 1995, Orient did not win a single away game in the league, leaving them bottom of Division Two in 1994 95. They reached the Johnstone's Paint Southern Area Final in 2012 13, but were beaten 3 2 on aggregate by Southend United, missing out on a chance to go to Wembley. Leyton Orient's home ground Brisbane Road is officially known as the Matchroom Stadium after club chairman Barry Hearn's sports promotion company. Hearn became chairman in 1995 after the club was put on sale for 5 by then-chairman Tony Wood whose coffee-growing business in Rwanda had been destroyed in the country's civil war. The period of the club's nearclosure was covered by the television documentary Orient: Club for a Fiver (made by Open Media for Channel 4). Russell Slade was appointed manager of the club in 2010 and has been successful in maintaining the club's League One status. Leyton Orient are now well established in the league and finished in 7th, one place away from the playoff positions, in both the 2010/2011 and 2012/2013 seasons.
Coach: Gianni Ghio Bromley Football Club are an English football club based in Bromley, in Greater London, England. They currently play in the Conference South, and play their home matches at Hayes Lane. Bromley Football Club was founded in 1892 and played friendly games against mainly local opposition sides in its first season. Their first competitive football came in the South London League, which was won at the first attempt. However, they moved frequently between leagues in those early days. Two seasons in the Southern Football League were followed by a spell in the London League, winning the Division Two title in 1897. After a brief interlude in the Kent League, they returned to the London League but were expelled in 1900. They then competed in the Spartan League, and after winning the title in 1908, they had their first spell in the Isthmian League and won the championship in each of their first two seasons. After the First World War they joined the Athenian League, winning the title in 1923. Though the 1930s were successful on the cup front, league honours eluded them until 1949 when they lifted the Athenian League Championship, to go with the FA Amateur Cup. Three years later they rejoined the Isthmian League, and again made an immediate impact finishing runners up at the first attempt, and going one better in 1954, reversing the previous season's six-point margin over Walthamstow Avenue, who were again runners up when Bromley were champions again in 1961. The following season they had only two clubs below them, and in thirteen subsequent seasons only twice finished in the top half, culminating in relegation in 1975, the second time they had finished at the bottom. They were promoted in 1980, and during an up and down period they went down again in 1984, came back up two years later and were runners up to Yeovil Town in 1988 the highest league position for over 25 years before being relegated for a third time two years later. Regaining Premier Division status at the first attempt, they remained in the top flight until 1999 when, after their best start to a season for many a year thirteen points out of the first five games they only won four of the remaining 37 league games, and as a consequence were relegated for the fourth time since promotion and relegation was introduced.
Coach: Gianluigi Raffo Tooting & Mitcham United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in the London Borough of Merton. The club play at Imperial Fields in Morden and currently play in Division One South of the Isthmian League. Their nickname is the Terrors or occasionally Stripes, in reference to their kit. In 1932, Tooting FC (founded 1887) and Mitcham Wanderers FC (founded 1912) quite literally united to become the modern club representing the two areas. Their merger had been mooted for two years previously, but it was only after it became clear that the area couldn't host two competitive teams that anything happened to advance it. Originally playing in white shirts, in 1956 the broad black and white stripes were adopted. The club has reached the FA Cup proper on 10 occasions, the last time being the 2009 10 season. It has also won the Isthmian League twice, in 1958 and 1960. Other honours include the Surrey Senior Cup and the London Senior Cup (which, despite its grandiose name, features only low-level clubs). Perhaps the most famous FA Cup run was in 1959, when the club reached the third round; drawn at home to First Division Nottingham Forest, on a frozen pitch they went into a 2 goal lead with goals from Grainger and Murphy before Forest fought back with the aid of a Murphy own goal and a penalty. Forest won the replay 3 0 in front of a crowd of 42,362 and went on to win the trophy that year. Alex Stepney, who was born in Mitcham in 1942, joined the club in 1961. In 1963 he signed for Millwall and later played for Chelsea, Manchester United and England. Dario Gradi, who spent more than twenty four years as manager of Crewe Alexandra, briefly played for the club in the 1960s. In 2000 01 Keith Boanas led the club to the Isthmian League Second Division title, before leaving to manage Charlton Athletic Ladies. In the Isthmian League First Division, the club were managed by Richard Cadette, whose lengthy list of former clubs include Falkirk, Millwall and Brentford. The team played a very consistent first half of the 2005 06 season but injuries and the loss of star player Gavin Grant to Gillingham saw the team lose some of their cutting edge and start to falter. At the end of this season Cadette was sacked as the team once again failed to gain promotion following defeat in the playoff semi-finals to Tonbridge Angels. Former player Billy Smith was appointed as manager for the start of the 2006 07 season, in which the club won the Surrey Senior Cup and London Senior Cup. In May 2008, the club secured promotion to the Isthmian League Premier Division by defeating Cray Wanderers 1 0 at Imperial Fields. In the 2009 10 season they reached the first round of the FA Cup where they played in front of over 3,000 people against Stockport County although they were beaten 5 0. Despite an encouraging season the board announced that the club required a 40% cut in budget, these changes saw manager Billy Smith, his assistant George Wakeling and many of the players leave the club. Former Sheffield United player Mark Beard was appointed manager in May 2010, with former player Kevin Cooper as his assistant. After a good start to the 2011 12 season Beard was relieved of his position in December 2011 when results declined as the owner, Steve Adkins, allowed prospective buyers to influence team selection. Academy manager Danny Lee was appointed caretaker manager but declined the job permanently. As a result Kenny Brown was appointed the new manager. However the results got worse and Tooting were relegated at the end of the 2011 12 season. Tooting & Mitcham had three managers in the 2012-13 season (Roberto Forzoni, Jamie Martin and Phil Simpson) and finished 16th in the Ryman Division One South. In May 2013, another club with a similar name, Tooting & Mitcham Wanderers http://www.tmwfc.com/, were formed. This club will start life in the Surrey South Eastern Combination Intermediate Division. They will play their home games at Church Road, CR3 0AR, which they will share with Whyteleafe FC. This team and ground should not be confused with Tooting & Mitcham United who play at the KNK Stadium in Morden.
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