Castletown Metropolitan F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Castletown Metropolitan F.C.


fullname = Castletown Metropolitan Association Football Club
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founded = 1904
ground = Castletown Football Stadium, Malew Road
Castletown, Isle of Man
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manager =
league = Isle of Man Football League Division Two
season = 2007-08
position = Division Two, 4th
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Castletown Metropolitan Football Club are a football club from Castletown on the Isle of Man. They compete in the Isle of Man Football League and wear a red and white kit. They play their home games at Malew Road in Castletown.

History

Formed in 1904, the club is one of the most successful on the Isle of Man.cite web
title = Community - Castletown Football Club
publisher = castletown.org.im
date = 2006
url = http://www.castletown.org.im/community/footballclub.html
accessdate = 2008-09-10] They have been champions of the Isle of Man League eight times, including three consecutive seasons from 1922-233 to 1924-25cite web
title = Isle of Man 1897/98 and 1970/71-1994/95
publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
date = 2007-05-29
url = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/manx1898.html
accessdate = 2008-09-08] and won the Manx FA Cup seven times.cite web
title = Isle of Man List of Cup Winners
publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
date = 2008-06-08
url = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/manxcuphist.html
accessdate = 2008-09-10]

They have spent most of their history in the top flight as Castletown FC, however in 2000 they added Metropolitan to their name. Since then they have not been as successful, before in 2005-06 being relegated on just five points winning just one game all season with two draws and 21 defeats, scoring 19 goals in 24 games and conceding 99 goals.cite web
title = Isle of Man 2005/06
publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
date = 2006-08-20
url = http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/manx06.html
accessdate = 2008-09-10] They currently play in Division Two.

The club has a reserve team that plays in the Isle of Man Football Combination as well as a youth team, junior sides and a ladies team.

Malew Road

The record attendance at Malew Road is over 2,500 for the first game played at the ground, against Liverpool Collegiate, in 1950. There is a club bar located in the main stand.

Honours

First team

League

*Division One champions (8): 1913-14, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1981-82, 1998-99
*Second League champions (1): 1913-14

Cup

*FA Cup (7): 1911-12, 1913-14, 1922-23, 1949-50, 1961-62, 1984-85, 1992-93
*Hospital Cup (4): 1923-24, 1949-50, 1978-79, 1984-85
*Railway Cup (7): 1911-12, 1920-21, 1923-24, 1949-50, 1959-60, 1976-77, 1984-85
*Woods Cup (1): 1960-61
*Cap Final (2): 1922-23, 1923-24

Reserve team

League

*Combination League One champions (5): 1957-58, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1990-91, 1998-99

Cup

*Junior Cup (4): 1951-52, 1953-54, 1970-71, 1978-79
*Cowell Cup (4): 1948-49(shared), 1975-76, 1987-88, 1996-97

Other teams

*14/16 League champions (1): 1985-86
*14/16 B League champions (2): 1998-99, 1999-00
*15/17 Plate (1): 2005-06
*Women's Division Two champions (1): 2006-07

References