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| Full name | Spennymoor United Association Football Club[1] | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Moors, Spenny | ||
| Founded | 1904 | ||
| Dissolved | 2005 | ||
| Ground | The Brewery Field | ||
| Capacity | 6,000 | ||
Spennymoor United Association Football Club was anassociation football club based inSpennymoor, County Durham, England.
Spennymoor United Association Football Club was formed in 1904 as an amalgamation of Spennymoor Town and Weardale Ironopolis.
Spennymoor Town was itself an amalgamation of two church football teams in the town, St. Paul's and St. Andrew's in 1890. Weardale Ironopolis was a relatively new club formed in 1901 as a sporting interest for the workers of the Weardale Iron & Coke Works. The “Nops” had a short and successful history in the Croxdale & District League.
Spennymoor United spent the 1904–05 season in the Mid Durham League and secured the use of The Brewery Field the following season. The Brewery Field had until that time, been the home of the renowned Tudhoe Rugby Club and had hosted several inter county rugby matches at the ground.
In1905, they joined theNorthern League and won the league title six times in their history. In the1936–37 season, they reached the third round of theFA Cup, where they lost to top-flight sideWest Bromwich Albion. They also reached the semi-finals of theFA Trophy in1978. However, misfortune struck the club in 2005 when they folded, causingcontroversy over unfulfilled fixtures.
The club was reborn asSpennymoor Town, replacingEvenwood Town whose own future was in severe doubt and played at the Brewery Field albeit several leagues lower than previously. The "new" Spennymoor won theNorthern League Division Two in the 2006–07 season after a late winner against Penrith for a 1–0 victory and earned promotion to Division One.
