Gloucester City A.F.C.
Gloucester City Association Football Club ( /ˈɡlɒstər ˈsɪti/) is an English semi-professional association football club currently based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in South West England, via groundshare agreement.
The club was established in 1883 as Gloucester, they became Gloucester City in 1902, but were briefly known as Gloucester YMCA from 1910 to 1925, before retaining their previous name. The club has competed in the Conference North since 2009, having been promoted from the Southern Premier League at the end of the 2008–2009 season. It spent a record 70 years within the Southern Football League from 1939 until 2009. It secured promotion after a famous Playoff final win against Farnborough.
In July 2007, the club was considerably affected by the Gloucestershire floods with their Meadow Park stadium under eight feet of water. The floods have meant the club has been in exile away from Gloucester since 2007. The club are currently playing their home games at Cheltenham Town's Whaddon Road, after spending the previous three seasons sharing at Cirencester Town's Corinium Stadium and Forest Green Rovers' New Lawn stadium in Nailsworth.
The current team manager is David Mehew, a position he has held since 2008. The club is affiliated to the Gloucestershire County FA.
Read more about Gloucester City A.F.C.: Grounds, Honours, Club Records, Current Squad
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