Elmore F.C.

About Elmore F.C.

Elmore Football Club are a football club based in Tiverton, Devon, England. They currently play in the. HistoryThe club was founded in 1947 as the Elmore Sports Club, the original aim was to provide sporting and social facilities for the people of Tiverton. The club joined the South Western League in 1974 and played there for four years before gaining admittance to the Western Football League. The club spent more than a decade languishing near the bottom of Division One, but finally a runners-up performance in 1990–91 enabled promotion to the top flight of the league. In the 1994–95 season, they reached the 4th round of the FA Vase, as well as claiming a runners-up finish in the Premier Division. However, the club's fortunes declined following that successful season and Elmore returned to Division One after a last-place finish in 2003–04. Elmore transferred to the SW Peninsula League after the 2012–13 season, but resigned from the SWPL early in the 2014–15 season. The first team took the reserves' place in the Devon & Exeter Football League Premier Division. StadiumThe club play at Horsdon Park, Heathcoat Way, Tiverton, EX16 4DB. In its early years the club was compelled to continually move premises and in 1958 a major decision to purchase land was made. The raising of funds for such a project was an immense undertaking by the membership and resulted in the purchase of a piece of land called Slaughterhouse Field. Now renamed Horsdon Park, which is much more appealing, this remains today the cornerstone of the club and the firm base for both their football and social club sections.

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Elmore Football Club are a football club based in Tiverton, Devon, England. They currently play in the. HistoryThe club was founded in 1947 as the Elmore Sports Club, the original aim was to provide sporting and social facilities for the people of Tiverton. The club joined the South Western League in 1974 and played there for four years before gaining admittance to the Western Football League. The club spent more than a decade languishing near the bottom of Division One, but finally a runners-up performance in 1990–91 enabled promotion to the top flight of the league. In the 1994–95 season, they reached the 4th round of the FA Vase, as well as claiming a runners-up finish in the Premier Division. However, the club's fortunes declined following that successful season and Elmore returned to Division One after a last-place finish in 2003–04. Elmore transferred to the SW Peninsula League after the 2012–13 season, but resigned from the SWPL early in the 2014–15 season. The first team took the reserves' place in the Devon & Exeter Football League Premier Division. StadiumThe club play at Horsdon Park, Heathcoat Way, Tiverton, EX16 4DB. In its early years the club was compelled to continually move premises and in 1958 a major decision to purchase land was made. The raising of funds for such a project was an immense undertaking by the membership and resulted in the purchase of a piece of land called Slaughterhouse Field. Now renamed Horsdon Park, which is much more appealing, this remains today the cornerstone of the club and the firm base for both their football and social club sections.

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Elmore F.C. is located at EX16 6 Tiverton, Devon, United Kingdom