Truro City F.C.

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| fullname = Truro City Football Club
nickname = City, White Tigers, The Tinmen
founded = 1889
ground = Treyew Road, Truro
capacity = 3,500 (1260 seats)
chairman = Kevin Heaney
manager = flagicon|WAL Sean McCarthy
assitant manager = Dave Newton
league = Southern League Division One South and West
season = 2007-08
position = Western League Premier Division, 1st (promoted)
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Truro City F.C. are a football club based in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951 and won the title five times in their history. Apart from a three season spell in the 1970s, when they played in the Cornwall Combination after losing their ground as part of a by-pass development. They remained in the South Western League until 2006, when they joined the Western Football League, achieving promotion from Division One to the Premier Division in their first season. This season they look set to match a British record of 4 successive promotions.

The club's short, ginger, Chairman Kevin Heaney owns a housing company and despite a recent slump in the housing market has continued to attract many players from higher leagues. Mr. Heaney has stated that his goal is to take Truro City to the Premiership by 2020 [cite news | url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,2078404,00.html | title=Cornwall on the march | publisher=observer.guardian.co.uk | date=2007-05-13] . He has categorically denied claims that his money is drying up and says that he will continue to fund the club's success. He has pledged another £1million of his own money to spend on players should they get promoted from the Southern Division 1.

Truro were FA Cup regulars through the 1950s, but have been sporadic entrants since and returned to the competition for the 2006-07 season for the first time in 13 years.

History

In 1889 Truro City became one of the founding members of the Cornwall County FA (CCFA). Later in 1889, they played their first game at Truro College against Penzance, winning 7-1. They then switched to Tolgarrick for their future games. Six years later in 1895, they won their first trophy, the Cornwall Senior Cup, beating Launceston 5-0.

In the 1930s Truro left Cornish football for a time, joining the Plymouth and District League, which they went on to win in 1936-37, however as a result of this switch, they were barred from competing the Cornwall Senior Cup, although they were re-admitted again in 1938.

They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, but stumbled in the initial years, requiring re-election in both of their first two seasons to remain in the league. However, they won the championship five times since, and were only out of the division for three seasons when they lost their ground due to road widening.

In the 2005-06 season, they finished runners-up in the South Western League and were promoted to the Western League Division One, becoming champions at the first attempt. They also won the 2006-07 FA Vase, beating AFC Totton 3-1 in the final, held at the new Wembley Stadium in front of 36,232 fans (an FA Vase record [http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/mostpopular.var.2364461.mostviewed.totton_smash_vase_record_after_fa_admit_blunder.php#comments] ), becoming the first Cornish football club to win a national trophy.

In their first season in the Western League Premier Division, Truro gained promotion to the Southern League at the first attempt, and will become the first Cornish side ever to play in the Southern League, they are now only 4 promotions from the Football League. They were faced with the longest travelling mileage of any club at their level due to the prevalence of Wiltshire-based clubs in the Western League. Truro are currently the only Cornish club playing in the top ten levels of the English football league system.

Towards the end of the 2007-08 season, after the club's promotion to the Southern League was earned, chairman Kevin Heaney issued a statement reversing an earlier decision to turn the club fully professional for the following season, [cite news | url=http://www.trurocityfc.co.uk/NewsItemViewer.aspx?nid=165 | title=TCFC OFFICIAL STATEMENT | publisher=trurocityfc.co.uk | date=2008-04-16] which led to the resignation of boss Dave Leonard [cite news | url=http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144125&command=displayContent&sourceNode=232451&contentPK=20413241&folderPk=110118&pNodeId=251468 | title=LEONARD QUITS | publisher=thisiscornwall.co.uk | date=2008-04-17] . For the remainder of the season, Director of Football Chris Webb took charge, assisted by former boss Dave Newton. [cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/7354243.stm | title= Truro City boss Leonard resigns | publisher=bbc.co.uk | date=2008-04-18]

In May 2008 former Plymouth Argyle and Exeter City striker Sean McCarthy was appointed the new Truro manager and the club appointed Dave Newton as his assistant.

tadium

Truro City are currently based at Treyew Road, they moved to their current home in the mid 1950s. A covered terrace was in place behind one of the goals until the mid 1970s when a road widening scheme resulted in it being removed. Only in recent years have they added to their old stand and erected two new stands on opposite sides of the ground lifting the capacity to approximately 3,000. The club has plans to build new facilities at a new site to the north of the city at Pencoose Farm, Kenwyn [cite news | url=http://www.trurocityfc.co.uk/Page3.aspx?PageID=303 | title=HEANEY UNVEILS £6m NEXT STEP IN CITY SOCCER REVOLUTION | publisher=trurocityfc.co.uk | date=2007-05-18] which will include a 16,000 [cite news | url=http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/TheFAVase/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2007/03/FAVase_Heaney.htm | title=Heaney's Truro ambition | publisher=thefa.com | date=2007-05-13] all seater stadium, sports bar, training facilities and a youth academy.

Achievements

*FA Vase
**Winners: (1): 2006-07

* Western League Premier Division:
**Winners: (1): 2007-08

* Western League Division One:
**Winners: (1): 2006-07

* South Western League:
**Winners (5): 1960-61, 1969-70, 1992-93, 1995-96, 1997-98
**Runners-up (7): 1954-55, 1962-63, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1970-71, 1996-97, 2005-06

* South Western League Cup:
**Winners (3): 1959-60, 1966-67 (Joint), 1992-93
**Runners-up (6): 1954-55, 1958-59, 1967-68, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1997-98

* Cornwall Senior Cup:
**Winners (15): 1894-95, 1901-02, 1902-03, 1910-11, 1923-24, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1937-38, 1958-59, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1994-95, 1997-98, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08

* Durning Lawrence Cornwall Charity Cup:
**Winners (11): 1911-12, 1912-13, 1919-20, 1925-26, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1932-33, 1949-50, 1964-65, 1980-81
**Runners-up (9): 1905-06, 1909-10, 1910-11, 1913-14, 1924-25, 1937-38, 1957-58, 1966-67, 2002-03

Records

* Best FA Cup performance: 2nd Round Qualifying 6 times (1957-58, 1959-60, 1972-73, 1992-93, 2007-08, 2008-09)
* Best FA Vase performance: Winners (2006-07)
* Most League goals in a season (by team): 185 (2006-07, Western Football League Division One, 42 games)
* Most League points in a season: 115 (2006-07, Western Football League Division One, 42 games)

External links

* [http://www.trurocityfc.co.uk/Default.aspx?PageID=10 Official website]
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First team squad

External links

* [http://www.trurocityfc.co.uk/Default.aspx?PageID=10 Official website]
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References