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4 unusual facts about York City F.C.


Dick Crawshaw

His nephew, Dick Duckworth, was also a footballer who played for several Football League clubs including Chesterfield, Rotherham United and York City.

Football League North and South

An example of this is that in the 1942 Football League North Leeds United played Middlesbrough, Gateshead, Newcastle United, Doncaster Rovers, Sunderland, Bradford Park Avenue, York City, Halifax Town and Huddersfield Town, which they played Home and Away in succession.

Keys Park

In January 1997, Keys Park saw its highest attendance ever as over 3,000 people witnessed the Pitmen's 1-0 win over York City in the FA Cup Third Round.

Knaresborough Town A.F.C.

Due to their good form, they were invited into the Northern League, where they competed against teams such as York City and Scarborough.


Andy Leaning

Born in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, Leaning had trials with York City in 1979 at the age of 16 and he went on to play for York Railway Institute and Rowntree Mackintosh in the Northern Counties East Football League as an amateur while working for British Rail.

Darren Williams

Born in Middlesbrough, Williams played for Cleveland and North Yorkshire Boys and Marton Boys before joining the York City youth system in July 1993, scoring 16 goals for the Intermediate side in the 1993–94 season.

Elliott Simpson

He played for York City, Rowntree, Pickering Town, Gainsborough Trinity and Harrogate Railway Athletic.

Ismail Yakubu

On 12 May 2012 Yakubu played for Newport County in the FA Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium which Newport lost 2–0 to York City.

Jack Pinder

Born in Acomb, North Yorkshire, Pinder spent his whole career at York City, with whom he made a total of 221 appearances and scored four goals.

Jeff Minton

However rookie boss Jimmy Case could not prevent the club from suffering relegation to the Third Division at the end of the 1995–96 season; they were 12 points short of the safety mark set by York City.

John MacPhail

Born in Dundee, Scotland, MacPhail won the York City Clubman of the Year award two seasons running, winning the 1983–84 and 1984–85 awards.

Newcastle Benfield F.C.

In the 2006–07 season, the team, which has never made it to the first round proper of the FA Cup, were drawn at home to former Football League side York City in the final qualifying round of the 2006–07 competition, but lost 1–0, a Clayton Donaldson penalty winning the tie for York.

Pickering Town F.C.

Reid was a former player with St. Johnstone and York City and Brown a former "Pikes" player and coach at the Leeds United Academy.

Steve Agnew

Agnew then moved up the country to Sunderland, helping them win promotion to the Premier League as Division One champions (although they went down after just one season) and in 1998, he signed for York City, and despite his efforts the Bootham Crescent side were unable to avoid relegation from Division Two in the 1998–99 season.

Tadcaster Albion A.F.C.

In the 1909–10 season John Smith's gained promotion from the old York League Division Two (today's equivalent is now called Division One) into the top level of the York League system, where they would compete against the likes of York City "A", Rowntrees, Heworth and others.

Wally Gould

Walter "Wally" Gould (born 25 September 1938 in Thrybergh, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire) is an English former footballer who made nearly 300 appearances and scored 71 goals in the Football League playing as a winger or forward for Sheffield United, York City and Brighton & Hove Albion.


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