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Longwell Green Sports - A
Cribbs FC - Squad History

Founded in June 1966 following the great upsurge of
interest in football following England’s World Cup
success of Bobby Moore and the England Team

Longwell Green Sports were originally formed from the
workforce of the areas main employer, Longwell Green
Coachworks, the team was run for many years by
Harold Harding, a well know character in and around
Longwell Green.

The first pitch was laid out on the same site of today’s pitch and was,
in 1966, open farmland. In its early years Longwell Green played in
what was the Saturday Regional League and by the early seventies
progressed to the District League.

By 1980 our current General Manager, John Gibbs joined the club
along with several other players from Kingswood including our
Reserves Team Manager, Jeff Fishlock. In 1982 the club became
District League Division 4 Champions losing only 3 games all season.

In 1983 the club gained promotion to District Division 2, the following
season the Reserve Team was formed. The first team won promotion
5 times in 9 seasons including Division 1 runners up and Senior
District and Bristol Combination Premier Division 1 runners up in
successive seasons, reaching Bristol Premier Division in 1997. The
following season the club finished third, 2 points behind Bitton &
Frampton and lifted the Premier Cup beating Highridge 3-2.

Our Reserves, by 1993, had reached District Division 2 following
several promotions with many goals being scored by our current 3 rd
Team Manager, Andy Britton.

In 2002 the first team reached the GFA Senior Amateur Cup final
played at County HQ, loosing on penalties to Nicholas Wanders.

At the end of season 2003/2004 the 1 Team gained promotion to the
st
Gloucestershire County League and following runners up to Highridge