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Bradford (Park Avenue) Football Club

LC control no.nb2008000084
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingBradford (Park Avenue) Football Club
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Variant(s)Bradford Park Avenue FC (Soccer team)
Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C. (Soccer team)
Bradford Park Avenue Association Football Club
Bradford Park Avenue Community Football Club
Beginning date1907
Associated countryGreat Britain England
LocatedBradford (West Yorkshire, England)
Field of activitySoccer
Found inUp the Avenue, 2007: t.p. (Bradford (Park Avenue)) p. 6 (Bradford Park Avenue FC) p.8 (Bradford Park Avenue Association Football Club, formed May 1907)
BL auth file, 3 Jan. 2008 (hdg.: Bradford (Park Avenue) Football Club)
Its website, viewed 17 May 2019: home page (Bradford (Park Avenue) AFC; address: Bradford Park Avenue, Horsfall Stadium, Cemetary Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD6 2NG) history page (Bradford Association Football Club was formed in 1907; used the name of its ground, Park Avenue, to distinguish itself from Bradford City AFC; the ground was established in 1880 as the home of Bradford Rugby Club which also had an Association Football team (Bradford [Football Club]) from 1895 (joined the Yorkshire League in 1897) until 1899; in 1907 the [Rugby] club joined the Southern League [football], resigned in May 1908 and joined the Football League; the Park Avenue ground was sold in 1973; liquidated in May 1974; began again in the local Sunday league; the "old club" was reformed in 1988; in summer of 2016 the club was officially ratified as a Community Benefit Society and became Bradford Park Avenue Community Football Club; Bradford is still the preferred title of the Club for many older supporters)
Bradford Park Avenue Supporters Club. Newsletter, pre-season 1992/93: page 3 (Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C.; Bradford Park Avenue Football Club)
Companies House website, viewed 17 May 2019 (Bradford Park Avenue Community Football Club Limited; company number RS007337)
Associated languageeng