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| Full name | Nuneaton Griff Football Club | ||
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| Nicknames | The Heartlanders, The Griff | ||
| Founded | 1972 (as Nuneaton Amateurs) | ||
| Ground | The Pingles Stadium Nuneaton | ||
| Capacity | 4,000 | ||
| Chairman | John Gore | ||
| Manager | Arron Cheshire[1] | ||
| League | Midland League Division One | ||
| 2024–25 | Midland League Division One, 12th of 22 | ||
Nuneaton Griff F.C. are a football club based inNuneaton,Warwickshire,England. They joined theMidland Football Combination Premier Division in 1999, and have been competing in theMidland League Division One since it was formed in 2014.
Griff have won the Midland Combination Premier Division on two occasions, including a League and cup treble in 2000–2001, earning them the Midland Combination Team of the Year Award, two Coventry Alliance Premier Division titles, one Birmingham Combination Premier Cup in 2000–2001, two Coventry Alliance Premier Cups, five Coventry Telegraph Cups, two Chapel End Nursing Cups, along with the Birmingham County Junior Cup in 1998–1999.
The club play their home games at the Pingles Stadium, which holds up to 6,000 spectators 232 seated. Griff's home kit is blue and white vertical striped shirts, with blue shorts, accompanied by blue socks. This combination has been used since the club formed in 1972.
The club was founded in 1972 asNuneaton Amateurs when a dispute at the well-known local club Co-op Sports F.C. led to many members moving to the NuneatonGriff and Coton Miners Welfare Ground. Nine players and officials paid £1 each to start the new club and Colin Wetton became the first manager, with Colin Rathbone as chairman.
The Amateurs initially played in the Coventry and North Warwickshire League, and in their first season were denied a championship success when their opponents failed to turn up for a late-season rescheduled game and the Coventry and North Warwickshire League decided there was not time to fit in another match.
By the 1990s the club was playing in theCoventry Alliance Football League, where they were dominant for a number of years. In 1998–99 the decision was made to apply for membership of theMidland Football Combination.
The club was controversially placed directly into the Premier Division but the Heartlanders, under manager Mark Green, repaid that faith by winning the championship in their first season 1999–2000 and repeated the feat the following season 2000–01, adding the Endsleigh Challenge Cup for good measure. In the process they made history by winning the Challenge Cup atVilla Park and the following night winning the Coventry Telegraph Cup atHighfield Road,Coventry, to become the only club ever to play in two cup finals on consecutive days at two differentPremier League football grounds win them both.
In 2014 they were placed into the newly formedMidland Football League Division One. In the 2015–16 season the club reached the fifth round of theFA Vase for the first time, where they lost 3–0 toSalisbury at home in front of a record crowd of 870.[2]
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