Brighouse Town F.C.

Brighouse Town F.C. are a football club based in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England, who are members of the Northern Premier League for the 2015-16 season and play at St Giles Road.

History

It was established in 1963 and played in the Huddersfield Works League until 1975 when it joined the West Riding County Amateur League.

At the end of 2007–08 they applied to join the NCEL Division One and their application was successful.

After consolidating their position in their first season at the higher level they finished an impressive second place in the 2009–10 season and gained promotion to the NCEL Premier Division where they again consolidated their position finishing in 16th place under the guidance of Mark Brier. The following season saw a change in manager, Mick Couzens came in from Bradford Park Avenue, after four competitive matches, Couzens walked away and was replaced by current manager Paul Quinn who managed to finish the season as high as 4th. In the 2012/13 season Quinn in his first full season in charge signed a new array of talent including talisman Tom Matthews who scored 45 goals, despite a good season including an FA Vase cup run, Quinn's side finished runners up by two points to Scarborough Athletic on 97 points. The team went on to win the Northern Counties East Premier Division title in the 2013-14 season with a record 100 points and subsequently gain promotion to the Northern Premier League.in the 2014-15 season they finished 14th out of 22 teams.

Brighouse

Coordinates: 53°42′25″N 1°47′38″W / 53.707°N 1.794°W / 53.707; -1.794

Brighouse is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder,4 miles (6.4 km) east of Halifax in the Pennines. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 motorway and Brighouse railway station on the Caldervale Line and Huddersfield Line. In the town centre is a mooring basin on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave the Brighouse / Rastrick subdivision of the West Yorkshire Urban Area a population of 32,360.

The name Brighouse (or "Bridge House") originates from a building on (or close to) the bridge over the River Calder. In its early history, it was a hamlet of the nearby village of Rastrick.

Brighouse is twinned with Lüdenscheid in Germany, the link beginning with an exchange by Brighouse Children's Theatre in 1950 followed by a civic twinning charter in 1960.

Brighouse (disambiguation)

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