Team Northumbria F.C.

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Team Northumbria
Tn logo.gif
Full name Team Northumbria Football Club
Nickname(s) Team North / TN
Founded 1999 as Northumbria University F.C.
Ground Coach Lane Sports Ground Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Manager Paul Johnson
League Northern League Division Two
2010–11 5th
Website Club home page
Home colours

Team Northumbria Football Club are an English association football team based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, currently playing in the Northern League Division Two, having won promotion in 2006 from the Northern Alliance. They are the football team of Northumbria University, and were founded in 1999 as Northumbria University F.C., until 2003 when they took up their current name.

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[edit] History

Founded in 1999 a Northumbria University F.C., they joined the Northern Football Alliance Second Division for the 1999–2000 season, finishing their inaugural year fourth out of fourteen team. Two years later in the 2001–02 season they finished runners-up, gaining promotion to Division One. They followed runners-up again a year later in the 2002–03 season, with promotion to the Northern Alliance Premier Division. They then changed their name to Team Northumbria.[1] In the Premier Division they finished second and third in their first two seasons, before being crowned Northern Alliance Champions in the 2005–06 season, gaining promotion to the Northern League Division Two where they have stayed since.[2]

[edit] Current squad

As of 15 January 2011.

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 Andrew Jennison
GK Neil Postlethwaite
DF Gavin Donoghue (captain)
DF James Mobberley
DF Rob Story
DF Liam Clough
DF Thomas Davies
DF Jack Palmer
DF James Gunn
DF Tom Chipendale
DF Arran Brookbanks
DF Carl Robinson
MF Graeme Cairns
MF Mark Bertram
MF Nicky Deverdics
MF Christian Graham
MF Lewis Marr
MF John Sherlock
MF Graeme Carrick
MF Jonathan Redhead
MF Jake Richardson
MF Dan Riley
FW Dean Critchlow
FW Paul Burnham
FW Mark Fenwick
FW Peter Watling
FW Lee Scott
FW Mark McCutcheon

[edit] References

  1. ^ "NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY". Football Club History Database. http://www.fchd.btinternet.co.uk/NORTHUNI.HTM. Retrieved 15 January 2010. 
  2. ^ "TEAM NORTHUMBRIA". Football Club History Database. http://www.fchd.btinternet.co.uk/TEAMNORT.HTM. Retrieved 15 January 2010. 

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Coordinates: 55°00′23.52″N 1°34′06.01″W / 55.0065333°N 1.5683361°W / 55.0065333; -1.5683361

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