Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

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Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by halfmanhalfbiscuit » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:19 pm

Does anyone know who this is please?
In the top four divisions.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by tjgh25 » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:23 pm

I would suggest its Forrest Green Rovers, based in Nailsworth which has a population of 5,800 according to wiki.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:24 pm

It'll be Fleetwood won't it?

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by piston broke » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:24 pm

Forest Green Rovers based in Nailsworth. Pop.7746 in 2015

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by groove » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:26 pm

Would imagine Accrington would be a contender.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Cubanclaret » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:28 pm

Definitely Nailsworth then, my first thought was Yeovil - around the 30k mark population wise.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:30 pm

I thought Forest Green were in the Conference and that's why I didn't say Nailsworth.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by halfmanhalfbiscuit » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:31 pm

Accrington 35k
Fleetwood 25k
So it's got to be Nailsworth, you could virtually get the entire population in the ground.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by CharlieinNewMexico » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:49 pm

Irthlingborough?

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by halfmanhalfbiscuit » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:54 pm

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:Irthlingborough?
I think that Nailsworth is smaller. And plus Rushden are in the Conference.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by rishtonclaret » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:10 pm

IF AFC Fylde make the football league (& they probably will in next 2-3 years) Kirkam has a population of 7194 so smaller than Forest Green

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by mkmel » Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:10 pm

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:Irthlingborough?
When I was about 16 I played against both Irthlingborough Diamonds and Rushden Town before they joined up to become Rushden and Diamonds
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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Hendrickxz » Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:06 am

Went to Nailsworth once, just before they moved to their new ground financed by that vegetarian bloke. Up a ruddy great hill, makes Holt House look like it is at sea level. Had the worst fish & chips ever down in Nailsworth village. Wouldn't want to go there again.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:12 am

halfmanhalfbiscuit wrote:I think that Nailsworth is smaller. And plus Rushden are in the Conference.
Rushden & Diamonds are a long way from the Conference - they play in the Evo-Stik League South East which is four levels below the Conference.
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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Espia » Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:41 am

FGR in Nailsworth. About half the size of Padiham. Stuck in a valley with steep hills either side. To get to the ground you have to leave the town and keep walking up, and up ... then up some more.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by fatboy47 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:45 am

Well, if either of our two teams ever hit the big time here on Scilly, then you'll find we could fit the combined population of all 5 islands into the Jimmy Mac Lower.

But let's take one game at a time.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Down_Rover » Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:37 am

Barnstoneworth United
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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Woonderbah » Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:46 am

Gotta be Blackburn Rovers surely...
Oh no hang on I misread it as 'S*******t town to have a league club'
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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by RingoMcCartney » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:42 pm

Is it true that Wakefield is the BIGGEST town NOT to have a team in the league?

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by bfcjg » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:17 pm

Isn't Everton a village ?it's certainly got an idiot.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Dazzler » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:22 pm

RingoMcCartney wrote:Is it true that Wakefield is the BIGGEST town NOT to have a team in the league?
Wakefield is actually a City. :P

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:07 pm

I think it is the largest town/city not to have a League club.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by nil_desperandum » Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:22 pm

I think it depends how you define the boundaries.
Croydon is an alternative I believe. Is Crystal Palace in Croydon? (Depends what boundary / criteria you are using).

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by COYC73 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 5:37 pm

I think Burnley is actually the second smallest club in the entire top two divisions with around a 73k population.....with Burton being the smallest which is in the 60 odd thousand population range.....

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by timshorts » Fri Mar 09, 2018 8:20 am

It depends what you count.
Falmer has a premier league club and a population of about 300.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by COYC73 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:25 am

timshorts wrote:It depends what you count.
Falmer has a premier league club and a population of about 300.
If it was called Falmer FC and originated in Falmer I would agree with you....but I’m guesssing one or two of the Brighton fans may have followed the club when they moved....just like Bolton fans did

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by ontario claret » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:48 pm

How about Dudley as largest without a club?

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by COYC73 » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:15 pm

ontario claret wrote:How about Dudley as largest without a club?
Never heard of it.....just had a look and it’s a bigger town than us :shock:

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by ontario claret » Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:42 pm

Dudley's in the Black Country. It's a real hodgepodge of towns and cities. My best friend's parents when I was growing up were from the Black Country. (Stourbridge).

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:50 pm

ontario claret wrote:Dudley's in the Black Country. It's a real hodgepodge of towns and cities. My best friend's parents when I was growing up were from the Black Country. (Stourbridge).

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by MDWat » Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:23 pm

Bath must be pretty big and they’ve never had one

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by ontario claret » Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:46 pm

Bath is big in rugby union. Bigger than Bristol. Not sure how big the actual town is.

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Re: Smallest Town to Have a League Club?

Post by nil_desperandum » Mon Mar 12, 2018 5:26 pm

MDWat wrote:Bath must be pretty big and they’ve never had one
Bath's another of those that depends on what you include.
Population at last census was 88,000, but "greater Bath" is about 175,000.
So population of actual city is similar to Wakefield but Metropolitan area is much smaller.

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