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Clevedon Town Football Club are an English semi-professional football club based in the village of Kenn outside of Clevedon, Somerset. They currently play in the Southern League Division One South & West. The club is affiliated to the Somerset County Football Association and is an FA chartered Standard club〔(March 2009 County Magazine ) Somerset FA〕 ==History== Clevedon FC was formed in 1880, making the club one of the oldest clubs in the West Country. They were founder members of the Western League in 1892 although their stay only lasted three seasons.〔(Clevedon Town History ) Evostik Southern league〕 After dropping back into local football they re-joined the Western League in the 1910–11 season. They initially played at Dial Hill, still the home of the local cricket club, but they moved to a new site at Old Street (later renamed Teignmouth Road) in 1895, where they were to remain until 1992. After the First World War, Clevedon played in the Bristol & District League and the Bristol & Suburban League before a switch to the Somerset Senior League in the early 1930s, where they remained until World War Two.〔 After the War the club again returned to the Western League and also made their debut in the FA Cup for the 1945–46 season. However the club became better known for their runs in the FA Amateur Cup, reaching the rounds proper no less than 8 times in 13 years. This cup success, however, was not matched in the league and Clevedon spent several years in Division 2 before resigning, for financial reasons, at the end of the 1957–58 season. For the next fifteen years the club once again played in the Bristol & District League, before finally rejoining the Western League in 1973–74 after a merger with another local club, Ashtonians United, who were already members of that League.〔 The club's name was later changed to Clevedon Town to reflect their new status.〔 Clevedon joined the professional ranks in 1974 when Ray Mabbutt, father of future Spurs star Gary Mabbutt became their first paid player.〔 The building of a new clubhouse and the installation of floodlights in the early 1980s nearly bankrupted the club, but things began to change when the club decided to sell their Teignmouth Road ground and move to a new site at Davis Lane on the edge of the town.〔 The club had had the foresight to buy the Teignmouth Road site for £450 back in 1949 and this enabled them to sell off the ground, pay off their remaining debts and build a purpose-built stadium from the proceeds. The 1980s also saw the club pick up their first Somerset Premier Cup in the 1986–87 season. However they managed to achieve this without playing against anybody in the final, as after the semi-final second replay in which Yeovil Town beat Bath City 2–1, Bath protested about an ineligible player in the Yeovil side. The protest was upheld and the tie ordered to be replayed. However, by this time the season was nearing its close and both clubs claimed their players' contracts would not allow them to fit the replayed game in and both withdrew from the Cup giving Clevedon Town a walkover in the final. In their first season at their new home in 1992–93, the club gained promotion to the Southern League for the first time. Promotion to the Premier Division followed in 1998 and, although Town were relegated again in 2000–01, the 2005–06 season saw them win Division One West to return to the top flight.〔 In 2006 they reached the first round proper of the FA Cup but went down 4–1 to Football League opposition Chester City.〔 The club at the end of the 2009–10 season suffered relegation and found themselves in Division One West again where they have remained since. Under the management of Michael Bell since their relegation the club has struggled in the league but have achieved some cup success by getting to the final of the Somerset Premier Cup and winning The Red Insure Southern League Cup in the 2011–12 season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clevedon Town F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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