Millbrook A.F.C.
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| Full name | Millbrook Association Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Magpies, The Brook | ||
| Founded | 1888 | ||
| Ground | Jenkins Park Millbrook |
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| Chairman | Steve Hutson | ||
| Manager | Ryan Swiggs | ||
| League | South West Peninsula League Division One West | ||
| 2013–14 | East Cornwall League Premier Division, 3rd | ||
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Millbrook A.F.C. are a football club that represent Millbrook, near Torpoint, in Cornwall.[1] They compete in the South West Peninsula League which sits at Steps 6 and 7 of the National League System; four leagues below the top division of non-league football, the Football Conference. The Reserve Team are part of the East Cornwall League.
History
The club was established in 1888 and joined the South Western League in 1980 after competing at a local level for nearly a century. In 2007, Millbrook became founder members of the South West Peninsula League after the amalgamation of the Devon County League and the South Western League. However, the club were voluntarily demoted two divisions (to the East Cornwall League, Division One) in 2010 for financial reasons.[2]
The club have a proud league record. They have finished in the top five of the South Western League no less than eleven times of which five of these occasions they finished within the top three.[3] In 1982 they were league runners-up and went on to record seven top five finishes on the trot. The club have reached the second qualifying round of the FA Vase on two occasions since 2004. They were knocked out of the competition by Exmouth Town and Newton Abbot respectively.
For the 2014-15 season, they are members of the South West Peninsula League after being promoted from the East Cornwall League after a 4-year absence. The club play their football at Jenkins Park and are now managed by Ryan Swiggs and assistant Kevin Mee. Swiggs enters his fifth year as manager and boasts a record of the First Team never finishing out of the top 6 in his tenure. During his four-year spell in charge, the club gained two promotions, reached the East Cornwall League Cup Final and set a new club record by scoring 104 goals in the 2011-12 season. However, on 23 August 2014, they were on the wrong end of a league record when suffering a 16-1 home defeat by Helston Athletic.[4]
Ground
Millbrook play their home games at Jenkins Park, Mill Rd, Torpoint, Millbrook, Torpoint PL10 1EN. The ground was renamed Jenkins Park in February 2014 in honour of Reg Jenkins, a native and resident of Millbrook who played in the Football League for Exeter City, Plymouth Argyle and Torquay United, as well as for Rochdale, where he was voted the club's greatest-ever player in a BBC poll in the late-1990s.
Records
- South Western League:
- Runners-up: 1981–82
- 3rd place: 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87, 2004–05
- 4th place: 1982–83, 2003–04
- 5th place: 1984–85, 1987–88, 1999–00, 2000–01
- East Cornwall League:
- League Cup Finalists: 2013-14
- Runners-up (in Division One): 2011-12 (promoted to Premier Division)
- 3rd Place (in Premier Division): 2013-14 (promoted to South West Peninsula League)
- 5th place (in Division One): 2010-11
- FA Vase[5]
- 2nd Qualifying Round 2004–05, 2005–06
References
- ↑ Millbrook: Twitter Millbrook
- ↑ Millbrook denied fitting end to league existence The Herald
- ↑ Millbrook: History Millbrook
- ↑ Helston hit SIXTEEN goals past poor Millbrook Cornish Guardian
- ↑ Millbrook at the Football Club History Database
External links
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