Tonbridge Angels F.C.
Association football club in Tonbridge, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tonbridge Angels Football Club is a professional association football club based in Tonbridge, Kent, England. The team competes in the National League South, at the sixth tier of the English football league system.
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Full name | Tonbridge Angels Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Angels | ||
Founded | 31 October 1947 (as Tonbridge) | ||
Ground | Halcyon Wealth Longmead Stadium, Tonbridge | ||
Capacity | 3,200 (inc 760 seats) | ||
Chairman | Sophie Purves | ||
Manager | Jay Saunders | ||
League | National League South | ||
2023–24 | National League South, 14th of 24 | ||
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Current season |
The club was founded as Tonbridge Football Club in 1947 and became known as "The Angels" in 1949 when they started playing at the Angel Ground. Since 1980, they have played home matches at the Halcyon Wealth Longmead Stadium. The club reached what was then the Conference South in 2011 after winning the play-off final of the 2010–11 Isthmian League Premier Division. They were relegated back to the Isthmian League in 2014, but were promoted back to the National League South in 2019 after winning one of the "Step 3 Super Play-Offs" at the end of the 2018–19 season.
Notable ex-players include England international Malcolm Macdonald, Aston Villa's league championship winning manager Ron Saunders, and former England manager Roy Hodgson.