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Swindon Town Football Club was founded by Reverend William Pitt of Liddington in 1879. [1] The team turned professional in 1894 and joined the Southern League which was founded in the same year. [1] During this period Septimus Atterbury played for the club. The Swindon Town team for the 1909–10 season
The origin of the Anglo-Italian League Cup (also known as the Anglo-Italian Cup Winners' Cup [1] and billed on the match programme as the International League Cup Winners' Cup) was to reward Swindon Town with European football in lieu of their ineligibility for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup following their victory in the 1968–69 League Cup, beating Arsenal in the final.
Author Dick Mattick selected the play-off final as one of the matches for his book Swindon Town Football Club – Fifty of the Finest Matches. [32] Conversely, in Sunderland A.F.C. – the official history 1879–2000 , the game was described as a "horrendous anti-climax" and that "the 1–0 scoreline was a travesty – [Sunderland] should have ...
During the final stages of the 2011/12 season Swindon Town confirmed two pre-season friendlies, the first confirmed fixture was a home tie against Championship side Crystal Palace (8 August). Shortly afterwards the club announced that a local friendly with fellow Wiltshire outfit Salisbury City was confirmed to take place at the Raymond ...
The Swindon, Marlborough & Andover had planned to tunnel under the hill on which Swindon's Old Town stands but the money ran out and the railway ran into Swindon Town railway station, off Devizes Road in the Old Town, skirting the new town to the west, intersecting with the GWR at Rushey Platt and heading north for Cirencester, Cheltenham and ...
Former Swindon Town Player of the Year Jonathan Douglas looked set to sign a new contract but eventually turned it down for a move to Brentford. [9] Swindon Town returned to pre-season on 29 June 2011. During the summer, Swindon spent 10 days in Italy at a training camp in Norcia, Umbria. During the course of the week Town played two friendlies ...
12 December 2013: Swindon Town release the findings of a recent audit announcing that operating losses have fallen from £3.6m per annum to £1.2m. [102] 19 December 2013: Steve Anderson is confirmed as the club's new general manager. [103] 19 December 2013: Kidderminster Harriers defender, Cheyenne Dunkley, is linked with a move to Swindon ...
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:06, 10 October 2023 (UTC) Harrison Gray (born 2007) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for League Two club Swindon Town .