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Today’s
visitors
St Blazey
first round proper of the FA Trophy in
1971, losing after a replay to
Bromsgrove Rovers. To this day the
club enters the FA Cup and FA Vase
every season.
CLUB HISTORY
St. Blazey AFC were formed in 1896, by
Dr. ESS Davis who was also one of the
earliest members of the Cornwall
County Football Association.
St. Blazey were the first Cornish club to
transfer a professional player to a
Football League club when Bob Swiggs
joined Plymouth Argyle for £600. In
recent years, Shaun Taylor, currently
captain of Swindon Town, and most
notably England International Nigel
Martyn have progressed from club to
League Football.
In the early days, the club played at
Junior status, winning the Eastern
Divisional Cup, the Junior Cup and the
Bodmin and District League Cup in
1909, a feat they repeated twelve
months later. The club moved up to
senior status in 1910-11.
After the First World War records were
poorly kept, but two Senior Cup finals
were reached in the early thirties.
Success at Senior level came in 1935-36
when the Senior Cup, Charity Cup and
Herald Cup were won – the first side to
win all three trophies in one season.
The club has since won the Senior Cup
on seven further occasions.
St. Blazey Football Club won the South
Western League seven times in nine
years from 1998-99 to 2006-07 when
the league disbanded and merged
with the Devon County League to form
the South West Peninsula League. It
was almost eight times in nine years as,
in 1990-2000, they lost out on gopal
difference to Falmouth Town.
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