LC control no. | nr 00008180 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Portsmouth Football Club |
Variant(s) | Pompey (Soccer team) Blues (Soccer team) Portsmouth F.C. (Soccer team) |
See also | Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) F.C. |
Beginning date | 1898 |
Associated country | Great Britain England |
Located | Portsmouth (England) |
Field of activity | Soccer |
Found in | Pompey, 1984: t.p. (Portsmouth Football Club) cover (Portsmouth F.C.) Glory Gunners, 1999: t.p. (Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) F.C. Its website, viewed 15 May 2019: home page (Portsmouth Football Club [in badge]) contact page (Portsmouth Football Club, Fratton Park, Frogmore Road, Portsmouth PO4 8RA) The National (UAE) newspaper website, viewed 15 May 2019: under Sport, 23 July 2009 (Portsmouth FC is nicknamed Pompey or The Blues) Wikipedia, viewed 15 May 2019 (Portsmouth F.C.; Portsmouth Football Club; English professional association football club in Portsmouth, Hampshire; founded on 5 April 1898 by "The Portsmouth Football and Athletic Company" which opened Fratton Park in 1899; (the company was liquidated in May 1912 and the "Portsmouth Football Club Ltd" was formed as the new parent company of Portsmouth F.C. on 27 July 1912); Portsmouth F.C., as the "new" Pompey, played their first match on Saturday 2 September 1899; its "Pompey" nickname was formerly used by an amateur Portsmouth-based British Army team, Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) F.C. (1894-1899, reformed 1900-1901) - many of Royal Artillery's supporters, and two of their players, switched allegiances in 1899 to the new football club) |
Associated language | eng |