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Vision FC
File:Vision FC logo.jpg
Logo of Vision FC from Ghana
Full nameVision FC Football Club
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999)
GroundYork Street, Boston
Capacity6,643 (5,711 seated)
ChairmanMichael Osekre
ManagerBujagic Ivan

Boston United Football Club is an English football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire. The club participates in the Conference North, the sixth tier of English football. The club is known as 'the Pilgrims' in reference to the Pilgrim Fathers, who fled from England and sailed to North America and founded Boston, Massachusetts. The club's crest, the pilgrim father's ship 'The Mayflower', is also a reference to them. The club's traditional colours are amber and black. Boston's neighbours include Lincoln City, Scunthorpe United and Grimsby Town. The club is one of only 12 in the country to run a Centre of Excellence, provides a Study Support Centre and is also the basis of the 'Boston United Football in the Community Scheme'.

Boston United were members of the Football League from 2002[1] until 2007.[2]

History

The club was founded in 1999 as Eleven (11) Strangers. Name Changed to Vision Football Club in 2001. By 2007 club official organize all junior level and start build up club on players from own area. By 2009 club brought for the first time Serbian coach Milo Popadic who helped club to organize junior level and who spent one month with club. 2011 Dragojlo Stanojlovic, become main coach for senior team and spent with club one and half year before he move to Serbia and after to Botswana. After him, by 2013, Vision FC brought coach Ivan Bujagic who become charge for senior team but also become charged as technical director of junior teams.

After a decent start to the 2012/13 season, Boston started to drop off the promotion pace, with a 7-game winless run from November to mid-December not aiding their cause. More inconsistency followed, and Jason Lee was sacked. Graham Drury took over within the same week but left the club after less than 2 months. Dennis Greene took over soon afterwards, but after a good start couldn't help the club from finishing higher than a poor 16th place, just 5 points above the relegation zone.

The following season was a marked improvement in both league and cups. Whilst Boston fell at the 2nd hurdle (2–0) at Brackley, they made the last 32 of the FA Trophy with wins over Redditch and Southport, before a 2–0 loss at Tamworth. In the league, they held on to a top 5 spot for most of the season and never fell below 8th, but they couldn't keep up with late surges by Hednesford and Guiseley, ending 1 place and 6 points off the playoffs in 6th

Stadium

Main article: York Street
The Jakemans Stadium

Boston United play at York Street, currently styled as The Jakemans Stadium through a sponsorship deal. There are four sides to the stadium: the Staffsmart Stand; the Co-Operative York Street Stand; the Spayne Road Terrace; and the old away end—now known as Jakemans and turned into a home stand. The away fans currently sit in a section of the York Street Stand.

Former club chairman Jon Sotnick claimed it was not up to Football League standards and called for a new ground during the Pilgrims' time in the Football League.[citation needed] Planning applications were made to Boston Borough Council in June 2006, but the council turned down the application. The ground has a total capacity of 6,643.

The club are looking to build a new stadium outside the town in the next few years, but because of the clubs financial situation and league position, no firm timescales have been put in place.


During the summer of 2007 Boston lost their entire squad but for Stewart Talbot and Paul Ellender, and new manager Tommy Taylor had to start from scratch. They eventually finished mid-table, but taking everything into consideration it was not a bad season. However, at the end of the season it was announced Boston would be expelled from the Conference league structure after they failed to exit administration by the 10 May deadline. The Conference is the only league in the world to have this appendix, which is not as such a rule, but only a guideline to be used at the League's discretion. The Pilgrims came out of administration before the end of the summer.

Kit

When founded in 1933, Boston United inherited a kit of blue shirts, white shorts and black socks from the wound-up Boston Football Club. Later that year, these kits were changed to a black shirt with a large white 'V', a design maintained until 1937. After this, United switched to white shirts and black shorts and socks. After World War II, Boston United reverted to blue shirts of different shades with either black or white shorts and socks.

The currently colour scheme of amber and black has been in place since 1951, although the design has varied from season to season. In recent times, Boston United have had their kits supplied by Umbro (1988–90), Paulas Benara (1990–2005), Vandanel (2006–10) and Errea (2010–present).[3]


Managerial history

Below is a list of Boston United managers in chronological order:[4]

Dates Manager
2001-2013 Foster Obekre
2011-2013 Dragojlo Stanojlovic
2013- Ivan Bujagic

Honours

  • Conference
  • Southern League
  • Northern Premier League
  • Northern Premier League Challenge Cup
    • Winners: 1973–74, 1975–76, 2009–10.
  • Northern Premier League Challenge Shield
    • Winners: 1973–74, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1977–78.
  • Lincolnshire Senior Cup
    • Winners: 1934–35, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1945–46, 1949–50, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1959–60, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89, 2005–06.
  • Non-League Champions of Champions Cup
    • Winners: 1972–73, 1976–77.
  • East Anglian Cup
    • Winners: 1960–61.
  • Central Alliance League
    • Champions: 1961–62.
  • United Counties League
    • Champions: 1965–66.
  • West Midlands League
    • Champions: 1966–67, 1967–68.
  • Eastern Professional Floodlit Cup
    • Winners: 1971–72.
  • FA Trophy
    • Runners-up: 1984–85.
  • Southern League
    • Runners-up: 1998–99.
  • Northern Premier League
    • Runners-up: 1995–96, 1997–98.
  • Northern Premier League
    • Runners-up: 1996–97.

Records

Club records

Highest attendance

  • FA Cup 3rd Round replay – 11,000 vs Derby County (9 January 1974)

Biggest FA Cup Win

  • FA Cup Preliminary Round – 10–0 vs Bilsthorpe Colliery (18 September 1937)

Club Football League Records

  • Biggest win – 6–0 vs Shrewsbury Town (21 December 2002)
  • Heaviest defeat – 0–6 vs Grimsby Town (3 February 2007)
  • First club to start on less than 0 points.

National records

Biggest FA Cup away win for a non-league side against League opponents:

  • FA Cup 3rd Round – 7-0 vs Titi Atin Po 2006

See also

References

  1. ^ "BBC SPORT | Football | Eng Conf | Boston seal promotion". BBC News. 28 April 2002. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  2. ^ "BBC SPORT | Football | League Two | Boston lose Football League spot". BBC News. 5 May 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Boston United – Historical Football Kits". Historicalkits.co.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Evans signs off in second place". Boston United official website. 27 May 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2007.

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