- Daventry Town F.C.
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Daventry Town Full name Daventry Town Football Club Nickname(s) Town Founded 1886 Ground Communications Park
Browns Road
Daventry
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(Capacity: 5000)Chairman Iain Humphrey Manager Mark Kinsella League Southern League Division One Central 2010–11 Southern League Division One Central, 3rd 
Home coloursAway coloursDaventry Town F.C. is a football club based in the town of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.
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History
The club was established in 1886 as a local-town club playing in the Northampton Town League. The club moved to the Northants Combination in 1987, and their emergence began under manager Willie Barrett, who led the club to successive championships in the Combination First and Premier divisions. In 1989–90, the club joined the United Counties League Division One. Since joining the United Counties League, they have won promotion to the Premier Division] on three occasions, but have also been relegated twice.
The club started at The Hollow Ground in the town, but having won promotion at the first attempt were denied because their new Elderstubbs ground was not ready in time. Their manager left, and the fortunes of the club declined with relegation alternating with promotion.
The club was threatened with extinction in 2005–06, when the Elderstubbs clubhouse and changing rooms were destroyed by fire. However, a sponsorship deal with mobile phone company Go Mobile enabled the club to survive.[citation needed]
2007–08 was a very successful season for Daventry Town. They won Division One, losing just once, and defeated three Premier division teams en route to the League Knockout Cup final, where they were defeated by Desborough Town 3–2. That same season the newly formed ladies team lifted the Northants County League Trophy losing only 1 game all season and then also the League Cup, beating Kingsthorpe Ladies 4–0 to complete the "Double".
Daventry have been entering FA national competitions intermittently since the early 1990s. Their best FA Vase run came in 2008–09, when they reached the Third Round, while have also entered the FA Cup on three occasions, but have not yet managed to score a goal in any tie.
Daventry is also the home town of fellow UCL members Ford Sports Daventry (now known as Daventry United) and Town also suffered from the proximity of the now-defunct UCL club British Timken Athletic (formerly British Timken Duston) who were based in the town.[1] For several seasons Daventry Town was regarded as the "poor relation". Following their fire, it was widely suggested that Town would merge with Ford Sports Daventry. However, the Ford Motor Company has recently scaled down its operations in the town, which had an effect upon the fortunes of Ford Sports Daventry, who in 2006–07 were relegated to Division 1, and since Town's phœnix experience, the two clubs have had a more equal and healthy local rivalry.[citation needed]
Players
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
No. Position Player 
GK David Bevan 
GK Joe Mellings DF Lewis Bishop DF Callum Burgess DF Nathan Delmonte DF Luke Edwards DF Jason Lee DF Craig Milligan DF Arron Parkinson MF Tom Burn MF Adam Confue MF Charlton Davis MF Tom Fountain MF Chris Hannah No. Position Player MF Nathan Hicks MF Josh O'Grady MF Casimir Pangne MF Jon Powis MF Peter Saunders MF Aaron Stringfellow FW Mark Bellingham FW Scott Cross FW Howard Forinton FW Stuart Hendrie (on loan from Hinckley United) 
FW Claudiu Hoban FW Leon Simpson FW James Travis Honours
- United Counties League
- Division One champions 1989–90, 1990–91, 2000–01 2007–08
Season-by-season record since 1989
Season Division Points Position League Cup F.A. Cup F.A. Vase Notes 1989–90 United Counties League Division One 81 1/19 1990–91 United Counties League Division One 95 1/19 1991–92 United Counties League Premier Division 64 14/24 Pre 1992–93 United Counties League Premier Division 79 5/22 Ex Pre 1993–94 United Counties League Premier Division 35 20/22 Pre Pre 1994–95 United Counties League Division One 14 19/19 1995–96 United Counties League Division One 41 12/19 1996–97 United Counties League Division One 36 13/18 1997–98 United Counties League Division One 53 7/18 1998–99 United Counties League Division One 46 10/18 1999–2000 United Counties League Division One 64 5/18 2000–01 United Counties League Division One 75 1/18 2001–02 United Counties League Premier Division 46 15/21 2002–03 United Counties League Premier Division 56 10/21 2 QR 2003–04 United Counties League Premier Division 22 22/22 R 1 Ex Pre R 2 2004–05 United Counties League Premier Division 34 22/22 R 1 Ex Pre 2 QR 2005–06 United Counties League Division One 51 6/18 R 2 2 QR 2006–07 United Counties League Division One 53 4/16 R 1 2007–08 United Counties League Division One 81 1/16 Final 2008–09 United Counties League Premier Division R 1 R 3 Key – Ex Pre = Extra Preliminary Round, Pre = Preliminary Round, 2 QR = Second Round Qualifying, R 1 = First Round, R 2 = Second Round, R 3 = Third Round
Source: Football Club History Database
References
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