Oswestry United F.C.

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Oswestry United Football Club was a football club from Shropshire, playing at Victoria Road.

History

The club was formed in September 1893 after the demise of Oswestry F.C. in 1891.[1] They joined the Shropshire & District League.[2]

The club won the Shropshire Senior Cup in 1899[3] and 1909, and won the Welsh Cup in 1901[4] and in 1907.[5] For its first triumph, special trains took 1,000 supporters from Oswestry to the Racecourse Ground, although they formed a minority in the 7,000 crowd, most of the remainder supporting opponents Druids; nevertheless the Salopians scored the only goal of the game.[6]

Demise

In September 1914 it was reported that the club had lost five players due to enlistments in World War I, and it was likely that the club would no longer be able to continue in the Lancashire Combination League.[7] By October 1914 the club are shown to have only played two fixtures in the league.[8] The club were due to play a Shropshire Cup fixture with Shrewsbury Town in March 1915, but could not raise a team and were later ejected from the competition.[9]

When football started again after World War I the club did not re-emerge.

The new Oswestry Town club replaced United as the main club in Oswestry in 1920.

Colours

The club is known to have worn the following colours:

  • 1900–01: red and blue halves[10]
  • 1902–04: chocolate and blue[11][12]
  • 1906–07: green[13]
  • 1909–13: navy and sky blue[14][15]
  • by 1915: blue and white striped shirts[16]

League history

Season League P W D L GF GA Pts Pos
1893-94[17] Shropshire League 18 4 4 10 35 63 12 10
1894-95 Shropshire League 18 10 5 3 53 25 25 2
1895-96 Shropshire League 18 3 0 15 30 71 6 10
1896-97[18] Welsh Senior League 14 8 3 3 33 16 17 3
1897-98 Shropshire League 18 8 1 9 36 40 17 6
1898-99[19] The Combination 28 9 2 17 49 73 20 12
1899-1900 The Combination 16 5 2 9 30 38 10 8
1900-01 The Combination 22 10 8 4 57 28 28 4
1901-02 The Combination 26 12 6 8 55 33 30 3
1902-03 The Combination 26 14 2 10 57 42 30 5
1903-04 The Combination 24 11 2 11 42 55 24 7
1904-05 The Combination 26 10 2 14 43 62 22 10
1905-06 The Combination 28 13 1 14 72 56 27 9
1906-07 The Combination 26 9 6 11 49 41 24 9
1907-08 The Combination 26 16 4 6 62 38 36 3
1908-09 The Combination 30 13 4 13 74 55 30 9
1909-10 The Combination 30 9 7 14 44 62 25 11
1910-11 The Combination 20 11 3 6 44 27 25 3
Wrexham & District League[20] Withdrew
1911-12 Lancashire Combination Division 2 30 13 5 12 75 64 31 8
1912-13 Lancashire Combination Division 2 34 17 3 14 79 80 37 10
1913-14 Lancashire Combination Division 2 34 14 4 16 47 60 32 12
1914-15 Lancashire Combination Division 2 Withdrew

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Honours

Cup

References

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