Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C.
Association football club in Bradford, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club is an association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in Northern Premier League Division One East, at the seventh tier of the English football league system. The name derived from their former home at Park Avenue, and was used to avoid confusion with Bradford derby rivals Bradford City.
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Full name | Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Green Army | ||
Founded | 1907; 117 years ago (1907) | ||
Ground | Horsfall Stadium | ||
Capacity | 3,500 (1,800 seated) | ||
Coordinates | 53°45′31.88″N 1°46′34.33″W | ||
Chairman | John Dean | ||
Head coach | Danny Whitaker | ||
League | Northern Premier League Division One East | ||
2023–24 | Northern Premier League Premier Division, 19th of 21 (relegated) | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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The club was founded in 1907 and moved from the Southern League into the Football League the next year. They were promoted into the First Division at the end of the 1913–14 season, but suffered consecutive relegations by 1922. They won the Third Division North title in 1927–28 and remained in the Second Division until 1950. Promoted from the Fourth Division in 1960–61, the club were relegated from the Third Division in 1963. The club failed in their Football League re-election bid in 1970 and spent the next four seasons in the Northern Premier League before disbanding.
The present club is a reincarnation that was established in 1987. They moved from the Central Midlands League into the North West Counties League in 1990, gaining promotion from Division Two in 1990–91. They moved into their present home at Horsfall Stadium in 1996 having previously won the North West Counties League Division One title, and then the Northern Premier League Premier Division in 2000–01. Relegated in two successive seasons in 2006, they won the Northern Premier League First Division title in 2007–08 and gained promotion from the Premier Division via the play-offs in 2012.