Meet Our New Opponents: Truro City

Greensnet Editor
Thu 20 Jun 2019, 15:56

This season sees the club due to make their longest ever away trip for a league match as they travel to Cornwall to take on newly relegated Truro City.

Formed in 1889 as one of the founding members of the Cornish County Football Association, they beat Penzance 7-1 in their first ever fixture before winning the Cornish Senior Cup six years later, triumphing over Launceston 5-0.

After many years at junior and district level, the White Tigers were founder members of the South Western League in 1951, a competition they won on five occasions before gaining promotion into the Western League Division 1 in 2006.

They won the title at the first time of asking as well as the FA Vase, overcoming AFC Totton 3-1 at Wembley in front of a record gate for an FA Vase Final in May 2007. 12-months later and they had won the Western League Premier Division to move up into the Southern League.

Five promotions in six seasons saw the club promoted into the Conference South in 2011 before being relegated two years later after being placed into administration. At the end of the 2014/5 season they once again gained promotion to step 2, a position they held until the end of last season when off-field problems took their toll, including a number of home matches being hosted at Torquay United's Plainmoor, more than 80 miles away from Truro.

Formed: 1889

Colours: White

Manager: Paul Wilkinson

Best Season: Conference South - 4th (2015/6)

Last Season: National League South - 20th

Address: Treyew Road, Truro, TR1 2TH

Distance from SJP: 267 miles

Capacity : 3,200

Overall Record : P0 W0 D0 L0 F0 A0