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Today’s
visitors
Wadebridge Town
when they finished runners-up. They
won the Cornwall Senior Cup in 1979/80,
and have won the Cornwall Charity Cup
on eight occasions in 1926/27, 1933/34,
1951/52, 1963/64, 1972/73, 1975/76,
1981/82 and 1984/85.
A Brief History
Wadebridge Town Football Club was
founded in 1894 and during the early
years played four or five games a season.
Wadebridge were also founder members
of the East Cornwall Premier League in
1960. In season 1980/81 the Reserve side
won the League Championship and also
did the double by winning the League
Cup as well. Wadebridge have also lifted
the Supplementary Cup on four
occasions, including two seasons in a
row, 1978/79, and 1979/80. Last season,
2011/12, the club won the Cup for the
fourth time.
The big match of each campaign was
against the Devon and Cornwall Light
Infantry stationed in Bodmin. Mr Rea, a
local Barclays Bank official, was the first
secretary of the club and served for
many years until moving to another part
of the country with the bank.
The club first played football in the
Trevanion area of the town and later
moved to a pitch at Whiterock.
Wadebridge have always had successful
minor teams and today run youth teams
from under-8s to under-16s, and also an
under-12s girls team. They have a
successful Mini Soccer School as well for
boys and girls from five to 11 years old.
Soccer Tots for boys and girls aged four
to six years gives them their first real
taste of football.
They moved to their current home,
Bodieve Park, in the 1920’s and won the
Cornwall Charity Cup for the first time
during the 1926-27 season. During the
Second World War, with most of the
players away on war service, a team
known as Wadebridge United played
friendlies against local teams.
Wadebridge also have a third team who
play Junior football in the Duchy League,
and are currently in Division Four.
They played their games on Egloshayle
playing field because Bodieve Park was
being used to grow corn and wheat and
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