Croydon Common F.C. Explained

Clubname:Croydon Common
Fullname:Croydon Common Football Club
Nickname:The Robins[1]
Founded:1897
Dissolved:1917
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Croydon Common Football Club was an amateur and, later on, professional football club based in Croydon.

History

The team formed in 1897 as an amateur church team competing in local leagues. They turned professional in 1907, joining the Southern League Second Division. A final place of third was achieved despite the stand at the Crescent being burnt down.

A move was made to the Nest (future home of Crystal Palace) in 1908 where promotion to the Southern League First Division was achieved. In the FA Cup, Football League members Bradford Park Avenue were beaten and Woolwich Arsenal taken to a replay before final defeat.

An immediate return was made to the Second Division after finishing second from bottom. At the new ground another main stand was damaged; the roof being removed in a gale.

Seasons of mid to high table finishes then followed until the 1913–14 season when the championship was achieved again with only two defeats.

Again, Common's stay in the First Division resulted in a second from bottom placing. Relegation was not experienced due to the suspension of the League during World War I. In 1917 the club was finally wound up, the only First Division club not to return to action after the War.

Players

Reading, Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle, Stoke, Liverpool, Burslem Port Vale, Leicester Fosse and Arsenal

Birmingham City, Stoke and Burslem Port Vale goalkeeper

England and Everton

Everton and Blackpool

Wales and Blackburn Rovers

Scotland, West Ham United

England and Aston Villa

England and Chelsea

1901 FA Cup Final winner with Tottenham Hotspur

England and Arsenal

England, Everton and Blackburn Rovers

Records

Sources

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Twydell, Dave . Football League Grounds For A Change . 1991 . 0-9513321-4-7 . 121.
  2. Book: Riddoch, Andrew. When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Kemp, John. Haynes Publishing. 327. 978-0-85733-103-8. 2011.