Clubname: | Blackpool Wren Rovers |
Fullname: | Blackpool Wren Rovers Football Club |
Nickname: | Wrens |
Founded: | 1931 (as Wren Rovers) |
Ground: | Brews Park, School Road |
Capacity: | 4,000 |
Sponsor: | Appliance House Ltd www.appliancehouse.co.uk |
Chairman: | David Brewell |
Manager: | Mark Faber |
Website: | http://www.blackpoolrovers.co.uk |
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Blackpool Wren Rovers Football Club is a football club based in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Brews Park, which is located on School Road; the ground adjoins the ground of Squires Gate, and is also very close to the ground of AFC Blackpool.
Blackpool Wren Rovers are members of the Lancashire Football Association. The club's colours are red shirts and red shorts.
The club were formed in 1931 and were originally known as Wren Rovers. They changed the club name to Blackpool Rovers in 1990, before adopting their present name in 1998. They were founder members of the re-formed West Lancashire League in 1959, and subsequently played in the Lancashire Combination and the North West Counties League. They entered the FA Cup regularly between 1983–84 and 1990–91.[1] [2] [3] Financial considerations necessitated that they dropped down the football pyramid, and they returned to the West Lancashire League. The club operates a women's football club, Blackpool Wren Rovers L.F.C.