Crane Sports F.C.

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Crane Sports
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Full name Crane Sports Football Club
Ground Greshams Sports Ground, Ipswich
Chairman Lyndon Barnett
Manager Iain Radnor
League Suffolk & Ipswich League Senior Division
2015–16 Suffolk & Ipswich League Senior Division, Champions

Crane Sports Football Club is an English football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk. The club are currently members of the Senior Division of the Suffolk & Ipswich League and play at the Greshams Sports Ground.

History

The club joined the Suffolk & Ipswich League prior to World War II, winning Division Three in 1935–36. They won the Suffolk Senior Cup in 1971 and 1974, and the following season won the Senior Division of the Suffolk & Ipswich League in 1974–75. They won the Senior Cup again in 1982 and 1984,[1] and also entered the FA Vase for three seasons during the 1980s, reaching the second round in 1983–84 after defeating Arlesey Town in what the Ipswich Evening Star described 25 years later as "memorable matches".[2][3]

After dropping into the lower divisions of the SIL, the club won Division Three in 1998–99 and Division One in 2001–02 to return to the Senior Division. In 2004–05 they won the League Cup for the first time.[1] They won the Senior Division in 2014–15,[4] and again the following season.

From 1966 to 1998, the club played host to an annual seven-a-side invitational football tournament, the "Crane Summer Sevens", to be revived in 2011. Among the early winners were Ipswich Town, whose team included future England national team captain Mick Mills.[5][6]

From the early 1960s to the 1980s, the club was the regular venue for the Suffolk county hockey team's matches. According to The Times' correspondent, it had "a well-kept pitch with good drainage and the amenities are superb. Suffolk have been using this ground for 19 years and it is believed to be lucky for them".[7] After the ground was taken over by Ipswich Town in 1998,[5] the club had to share facilities; they moved to their current home, Greshams Sports Ground, before the 2010–11 season.[8]

Honours

  • Suffolk & Ipswich League
    • Senior Division champions 1974–75, 2015–16
    • Division One champions 2001–02
    • Division Three champions 1935–36, 1998–99
    • League Cup winners 2004–05
  • Suffolk Senior Cup
    • Winners 1971, 1974, 1982, 1984

Records

  • Best FA Vase performance: Second round 1983–84[9]

References

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  9. Crane Sports at the Football Club History Database

External links

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