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Wingate & Finchley F.C.

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Wingate & Finchley
Full nameWingate & Finchley Football Club
Nickname(s)The Blues
Founded1991; 25 years ago
GroundThe Maurice Rebak Stadium, Finchley
Capacity1,500
ChairmanAron Sharpe
ManagerKeith Rowland
LeagueIsthmian League Premier Division
2015–16Isthmian League Premier Division, 13th
Websitehttp://www.wingatefinchley.com/
Wingate & Finchley (blue shirts) take on Wivenhoe Town at The Harry Abrahams Stadium.

Wingate & Finchley Football Club is an English football club based in Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. The club are currently members of the Premier Division of the Isthmian League and play at The Harry Abrahams Stadium. Their previous manager was former Hillingdon Borough manager Gary Meakin who arrived as manager in November 2012 from Southern Football League side Northwood. However Meakin and the club parted company in May 2013 citing both parties had different visions regarding the future of the club and was replaced by veteran player Daniel Nielsen with former manager David Norman assuming an overseeing Director of Football role.

History

The club was established in 1991 by a merger of Finchley and Wingate, who parted their company with Leyton.[1] Leyton regained Leyton-Wingate's place in the First Division of Isthmian League, while Wingate & Finchley took Finchley's place in the South Midlands League and played at Finchley's Summers Lane ground, which was renamed after Harry Abrahams, a long time Wingate supporter. In 1994–95 they finished second in the league and joined Division Three of the Isthmian League.

After a second-place finish in 1998–99 they were promoted to Division Two, but were relegated back to Division Three at the end of the following season.[2] After league reorganisation they were placed in Division One North for the 2002–03 season, but in 2004 were transferred to the Eastern Division of the Southern League. The club later returned to Division One North of the Isthmian League. In 2009–10 they finished third, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, in which they lost 3–2 to Enfield Town. The following season the club won the Isthmian League Cup and the London Senior Cup, and finished third again. After beating Harlow Town in the play-off semi-finals, they defeated Brentwood Town 3–2 after extra time in the final, earning promotion to the Premier Division - and securing an historic Treble.

The club finished mid-table in its first season in the Ryman Premier Division, before surviving a relegation scare in 2012–13 with one match to spare. In 2013–14, the club were relegated on goal difference behind East Thurrock United despite a final day 5-0 victory. However the drama did not end there, as the resignation of Worksop Town from the Northern Premier League gave Wingate & Finchley a much welcomed reprieve from relegation. The club finished the 2015–16 season in 13th position on 60 points.

Club identity

Wingate & Finchley are often perceived as a 'Jewish club', due to Finchley's sizeable Jewish community and a number of other factors, including sporting the Star of David on the club's badge, having a number of Jewish individuals on the committee of the club and being able to apply for special dispensation to move their games should they fall on Yom Kippur.[3] One of Wingate & Finchley's predecessor clubs, Wingate, was established in order to aim to combat anti-semitism.[4] The original Wingate club was named after Orde Wingate, who had been involved in training the Haganah, the precursor to the Israeli Defense Forces.

Ground

Wingate & Finchley play their home games at The Maurice Rebak Stadium, Summers Lane, Finchley, London, N12 OPD.

Players

Current squad

As of 21 November 2016.[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK England ENG Shane Gore
— GK England ENG Bobby Smith
— DF England ENG Ola Williams
— DF England ENG Tommy Cummings
— DF England ENG Sean Cronin
— DF Romania ROU Claudiu Vîlcu
— DF England ENG Karl Stevenson
— MF England ENG Tommy Tejan-Sie
— MF England ENG Ahmet Rifat
— MF England ENG Steve Wales
— MF England ENG Ryan Sellers
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF England ENG Joe Sharpe
— MF England ENG Alfie Bartram
— MF England ENG Tanasheh Abrahams
— MF England ENG Luke Ifil
— MF England ENG Tarum Dawkins
— MF England ENG Jordan Gibbons
— FW England ENG Rob Laney
— FW England ENG Billy Healey
— FW Antigua and Barbuda ATG Reece Beckles
— FW England ENG Ben Pattie
— FW England ENG Max Kyte (on loan from London Lions)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF England ENG Tommy Smith (on loan at Harpenden Town)

Honours

As Wingate & Finchley

  • Isthmian League
    • Division One North Playoff winners 2010-11
    • League Cup winners 2010–11
  • London Senior Cup[6][7]
    • Winners 1994-95, 2010–11
    • Runners Up 2004-05

As Finchley FC

  • Middlesex Senior Cup
    • Winners 1928-29, 1943–44, 1951–52
  • London Senior Cup
    • Winners 1932-33, 1951–52, 1952-53 (Joint holders with Walthamstow Avenue)
  • Middlesex Charity Cup
    • Winners 1942-43, 1950–51
  • Championship London League
    • Winners 1936-37
  • London League Challenge Cup
    • Winners 1934-35
  • London Intermediate Cup
    • Winners 1932-33
  • Middlesex Intermediate Cup
    • Winners 1932-33
  • Athenian League
    • Winners 1953-54

As Wingate FC

  • Herts County League Division One
    • Winners 1984-85

References

  1. ^ Wingate (Herts) at the Football Club History Database
  2. ^ Wingate & Finchley at the Football Club History Database
  3. ^ "An ambiguous Jewish identity for Wingate & Finchley". When Saturday Comes. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Wingate & Finchley FC: Built up from proud Anglo-Jewish roots". Kick It Out. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Wingate & Finchley Football Club". Wingate & Finchley F.C. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  6. ^ 2E0MCA Martin Addison+ Add Contact (10 May 2011). "Wingate & Finchley 3 vs Hendon FC 1 in the London Senior Cup | Flickr - Photo Sharing!". Flickr. Retrieved 9 April 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Memorandum Of Procedures For Dealing With Misconduct Occurring". Docstoc.com. 24 April 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2013.

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