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football club
Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team competes in EFL League One, the one-third tier of the English football league system. Their home strip is red and white hoops, which has been the chief invention of the golf club ‘s home shirt since 2001. [ 1 ] They play home games at the Keepmoat Stadium, having moved from Belle Vue in 2007. The club was founded in 1879 and turned professional six years belated, moving to the Intake Ground. They entered the Midland League in 1891 and were elected into the Football League in 1901. The club lost re-election votes in 1903 and 1905 and so returned to the Midland League. They were admitted into the Football League for a third and final clock in 1923 and went on to win the Third Division North in 1934–35. The clubhouse won two far Third Division North titles in 1946–47 and 1949–50, having been relegated from the Second Division in 1937 and 1948. Doncaster found themselves in the Fourth Division after suffering consecutive relegations in 1958 and 1959, though would win the Fourth Division style in 1965–66 and 1968–69. The clubhouse continued to move between the one-third and fourth tiers, winning promotions in 1980–81 and 1983–84 and relegations in 1983 and 1988, before suffering delegating into non-League football in 1998. Doncaster regained their Football League condition after winning the 2003 Conference play-offs and then went on to win the Third Division title in 2003–04. They won the Football League Trophy in 2007 and the future year won the League One play-offs to secure a plaza in the second gear tier for the beginning time. They spent four of the adjacent five seasons in the Championship, winning the League One championship in 2012–13, though were relegated out of the Championship in 2012 and 2014. Relegated into League Two in 2016, they won an contiguous promotion in 2016–17 and have remained in League One since then .
history [edit ]
The 1891 Sheffield and Hallamshire Challenge Cup winning Doncaster Rovers team .
early years [edit ]
The club was formed in 1879 by Albert Jenkins, a fit at Doncaster ‘s Great Northern Railway works. He gathered together some friends to play a match against the Yorkshire Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in September 1879. The establish english took a 4–0 lead but the bet on ended as a 4–4 draw. On walking back from the bet on, the team took a pillow at the Hall Cross, and had a discussion in which they decided to play more and called themselves Doncaster Rovers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The first peer under the diagnose was on 3 October 1879, a draw away against Rawmarsh. [ 4 ] The club turned professional in 1885. [ 5 ] Gradually, they became the chief team in the town, and appear to have had their first professional players in 1887–88. [ 4 ] Rovers first entered the FA Cup in 1888–89, losing 9–1 to Rotherham Town at home plate. [ 2 ] Season 1890–91 was to be a meaning be active forward. The clubhouse were a founder penis of the Midland Alliance League and came second. [ 6 ] The take after season, saw them enter the Sheffield and Hallamshire FA Challenge Cup, beating Sheffield United 2–1 at Bramall Lane to win the final. [ 7 ] That like season, they besides moved improving to the Midland League, becoming Champions in 1896–97 and 1898–99. [ 8 ] They were first elected to the Football League in 1901, as a surrogate for New Brighton Tower. Their inaugural season in the League was in fact the one when Doncaster achieved their highest place ever ( 7th in the Football League Second Division ). [ 6 ] They only lasted two seasons in the league before being voted out in favor of local rivals Bradford City, having finished the 1902 season in the bottom three .
League Positions 1902–2020 They spent the following season in the Midland League, only managing 11th position out of 18 but were elected back to Division 2. This time, in 1904–05, Doncaster finished bottom with W3 D2 L29, adrift by 12 points, gaining only 8 points – an inauspicious placid standing record. They were voted out once again. The following respective seasons saw them finish lower midtable of the Midland League, till between 1910 and 1913 they had greater success. The last few years before the war second-rater returned, [ 8 ] and in August 1914 debts run up over the years led to voluntary liquidation. however, a fresh baseball club was formed in meter for the 1914–15 season and was accepted into the Midland League to continue where the previous club had left off. The outbreak of the First World War meant the club closed down, and the army took over its grate using it as a storehouse. [ 1 ]
Inter war period [edit ]
The Club reformed as a restrict party after the war in 1919, [ 3 ] rejoining the Midland League a class later playing at their new impermanent Bennetthorpe Ground. The first two seasons Rovers finished lower-mid table. The third temper they moved to Belle Vue, finished runners astir and were accepted into the Football League Division 3 North for 1923–24 to replace Stalybridge Celtic. The beginning couple back in the Football League was a 0–0 draw against Wigan Borough at Belle Vue on 25 August 1923, [ 9 ] with Rovers playing in crimson tops with white shorts. [ 1 ] One of the players in that beginning match was Rovers legend Tom Keetley [ 6 ] who went on to become the Club ‘s highest scorer with 186 goals in 241 appearances. Doncaster ended the season in 9th place. [ 10 ] The adjacent few seasons saw them rise towards the crown of the table, then descent towards the bed, before in the early 1930s finishing systematically near the top and last becoming Champions in 1934–35. Rovers spent two seasons in Division 2, relegated in 1936–37. however, they did well in the take after two seasons before the outbreak of war, being runners up in Division 3 North, with only the champions being promoted at that time .
second World War – late 1990s [edit ]
Doncaster Rovers were involved in the longest ever competitive football peer, against Stockport County at Edgeley Park on 30 March 1946, in a Division Three ( North ) cup tie. The match was deadlocked at 2–2 at 90 minutes, and after two 10-minute periods of extra time there was no farther score. The principle at that time was that the game would carry on until one team scored. however, after 203 minutes, and with dark close up in, the bet on was finally stopped. Fans were said to have left the game, gone home for their tea, and come spinal column to watch the conclusion of the bet on. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The replay, at Doncaster, was won by Rovers 4–0, goals coming from Steven Bain, Billy Mortimer and a late double from Graeme Dunne. In 1946–47 Doncaster set a record for the most games won in a league temper ( 33 ), when they won the Third Division North title. The comply season saw them relegated from the Second Division, but two years subsequently with Peter Doherty as player-manager, they won the Third Division North again. This time they stayed in the Second Division for eight seasons, their most successful period to date. During this time, several high class players were with Doncaster including Harry Gregg who kept goal, and was sold to Manchester United in December 1957 for £ 23,500. At the clock, he was the most expensive goalkeeper in the universe. He went on to help save lives in the Munich tune catastrophe and was a regular goalkeeper for Northern Ireland. Another musician, lesser known outside Doncaster, was Alick Jeffrey. Matt Busby, director of Manchester United, had lined him up to be bought, however in October 1956 Jeffrey badly broke his stage play for England under-23s. This ended his move and any gamble of what was seen to be an about certain glittering external career to come. [ 4 ] Billy Bremner, who achieved fame for his playing career with Leeds United and Scotland, managed Doncaster twice, his concluding spell ending in November 1991 – six years before his death .
Richardson era [edit ]
During the early 1990s, Ken Richardson, who was late described by detectives as “ the type that would trample a two-year-old child to pick up a 2p sting ”, [ 13 ] took over as the majority stockholder of the golf club. He ploughed a bunch of money into Doncaster Rovers with one thing on his heed, a new stadium. When he was refused a new stadium by the council he soon lost interest. Richardson hired three men to torch Belle Vue and planned to sell the crunch to developers. The undertake put Richardson in jail for four years, ruined Belle Vue and Rovers were edging closer to relegation. In 1998 Rovers dropped out of the league with a −83 goal difference. He withdrew his fiscal back and as a result the club was subject to an presidency order. The better players left to ease some of the fiscal burden but unfortunately, the players who were left at Rovers were just not up to the undertaking. The fans blamed Richardson for effectively destroying Rovers and even a funeral was held at Belle Vue on the survive game of the 1997/98 temper accomplished with coffin along Carr House Road. Just weeks after Rovers were relegated, Richardson was found guilty of trying to set fire to the Rovers grind, obviously hoping to pay off the clubhouse ‘s debts with the policy money .
The rise [edit ]
The Westferry Consortium took over the Club just before the begin of the 1998–99 season [ 14 ] with a committedness to invest heavily in the club. The details of this season are collected in Ian McMahon ‘s book The Only Way Is Up. [ 15 ] They besides brought in John Ryan as a non-executive president and he took over at the end of this season. Having aspirations of returning it to the second grade where he had seen them when he was a son, he stated he would build a newfangled stadium within ten years, [ 16 ] both of which he went on to achieve within the ten years. Doncaster found their best form in 50 years in the 2000s. After five seasons in the Conference League, under the helm of director Dave Penney the club returned to the fourth grade ( known at the time as Division Three ) after winning the 2003 Conference Play-Off final, in the only sudden death goal ( besides known as a “ fortunate goal ” and officially known as “ Promotion Goal ” in this game ) in history of English football promotion play-offs. In 2003–04, the first season they were back in the Football League, Rovers achieved promotion to the third gear tier as Champions. Doncaster were the first team to win the Fourth Division/Third Division ( one-fourth charge ) Championship three times, 1966, 1969, and 2004. Football League rules country that any team who wins a trophy three times can keep it. When Rovers tried to retain ownership of the actual Third Division trophy, the Football League claimed that Rovers could not keep the trophy because the league names had changed from Fourth to Third Division, and then they had not won that detail league three times. Doncaster were the last team to win Division Three before it was renamed League Two. In 2005–06, Doncaster beat two Premiership teams in the League Cup – Manchester City [ 17 ] and Aston Villa. [ 18 ] They reached the draw finals of the contest where they met Arsenal. They went ahead in normal prison term and Arsenal equalised, and in extra time Rovers went up for a second base meter but Gilberto Silva equalised in injury time and the North London side went on to win on penalties. [ 19 ] Penney left in August 2006 feel he had taken the cabaret vitamin a far as he could and was swiftly replaced with early AFC Bournemouth coach Sean O’Driscoll, with Richard O’Kelly as assistant coach. A modern stadium was completed in December 2006. Doncaster ‘s first crippled at the modern Keepmoat Stadium was against Huddersfield Town on New Year ‘s Day, 2007 [ 20 ] and the first goal scored at the Stadium was by Mark McCammon .
On 1 April 2007, Doncaster Rovers travelled with their new coach to the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to play Bristol Rovers in the Football League Trophy final. Playing in battlefront of over 59,000 people, this was Rovers ‘ foremost major cup concluding in the club ‘s history. They got off to the arrant starting signal when a solicit in from Jonathan Forte and a bright stopping point from Paul Heffernan put Rovers 2–0 up within the first 5 minutes. however, after a brave fight back from Bristol Rovers, the game finished 2–2, so it went to extra time. In the second base half of extra clock a Sean Thornton corner was headed dwelling by skipper Graeme Lee who had come forward from his cardinal defensive place. Doncaster held on to claim their first major trophy. [ 21 ]
Doncaster Rovers celebrate victory against Leeds United in the Football League One play-off final on 25 May 2008 at Wembley Stadium. 2007–08 proved to be one of the most excite seasons in Doncaster ‘s history. After a behind start they were in serious contention for a top-six finish up for much of the second half of the season. Defeat away at Cheltenham Town on the final day of the temper cost them automatic rifle promotion and they finished third, with Nottingham Forest taking second place. After a 0–0 draw away to Southend United in the playoff semifinals beginning leg, Rovers beat their opponents 5–1 at home in the second leg including a James Coppinger hat-trick to advance to the League One play-off concluding at Wembley on Sunday 25 May 2008 where they beat Leeds United 1–0 to move into Football League Championship after a one-half century absence. A James Hayter headed goal in the 47th moment was adequate to secure victory in battlefront of over 75,000 fans at Wembley. [ 22 ] The first base half of the 2008–09 season saw Doncaster struggling to adapt to the Championship despite a promise start with an off win over newly relegated Derby County. [ 23 ] A retentive scat of bad results saw them bottom of the Championship on 20 December 2008 following a narrow-minded 1–0 get the better of to Wolves at home. Rovers managed to turn things around soon after and enjoyed an undefeated run of 8 Championship games, starting with a thrilling 4–2 succeed at relegation rivals Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day. The win against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday 14 February was specially memorable considering it was the first time Doncaster had defeated the Owls in any league competition. [ 24 ] The stripe ended at the hands of Swansea City on Saturday 21 February after a 3–1 kill at the Liberty Stadium. Doncaster Rovers secured their topographic point in the Championship for the 2009–10 season after an emphatic 3–0 win at Home Park against Plymouth Argyle. Doncaster ended their first season in the Championship well in 14th side, finishing above 8 former Premier League teams, including Charlton Athletic, Watford, Crystal Palace and Derby County. The survival was besides a major feat, as before the start of that season, they were tipped by many as strong favourites for delegating. Doncaster finished the 2009–10 season marginally better than their first season back in the Championship, in 12th and earning two more points than the previous season with 60 points. This was despite a promise menstruation towards the goal of the season which saw Doncaster close up to the play-off places, thanks in partially to Sheffield United loanee Billy Sharp who scored 15 goals during his stay. The 2009–10 temper ‘s achiever became a football league record. Having become the first team to be penetrate of the mesa at Christmas, but placid managed to survive the drop. The 2010–11 temper proved to be Doncaster ‘s most trying season in the Championship therefore far. Despite a clubhouse record sign of £1.15 million for Billy Sharp, the season was plagued by injuries to key players, american samoa well as poor form. They finished in 21st station, 6 points clear of demote local rivals Sheffield United and Scunthorpe United .
Rovers struggled in the 2011–12 season ; seven games into the season, Rovers failed to win a crippled ( no wins, one puff, six losses ). This led to the displace of coach Sean O’Driscoll and adjunct coach Richard O’Kelly. On 23 September 2011, Dean Saunders was unveiled as the new boss, leaving Wrexham. [ 26 ] His predominate started unbeaten in three games. With the controversial aid of football agent Willie McKay, Rovers brought in several players on loans and short-run contracts, and on low wages, [ 27 ] including El Hadji Diouf, Pascal Chimbonda, Herita Ilunga, Carl Ikeme, Frédéric Piquionne, and Habib Beye. [ 28 ] however, Doncaster were relegated to League One with three games still to play. [ 25 ] many supporters blamed the failure to stay in the Championship on McKay ‘s affair, others felt it was worth the test. At the end of the 2011–12 season, chair John Ryan deemed the McKay “ experiment ” over as it “ did n’t work ” and “ would n’t work in the third base tier ” anyhow. [ 27 ] The police squad was rebuilt for the 2012–13 season with 19 players leaving. [ 29 ] Expectations were broken, [ 29 ] but after an average begin, Saunders ‘ team ended up securely in the promotion positions by the end of 2012. On 7 January, Saunders filled the vacant managers position at Wolves [ 30 ] and on 17 January caretaker director Brian Flynn was given the permanent managers occupation till the end of the season with Rob Jones as player coach. [ 31 ] In an incredible stopping point to the season at Griffin Park, they beat Brentford 0–1 when James Coppinger scored in the last seconds of 5 minutes of add meter, only seconds after Brentford ‘s Marcello Trotta had hit a punishment against the crossbar. If Brentford had won, they would have been promoted and Doncaster would have to compete in the play-offs. As it was, the goal put Doncaster one point above Bournemouth as champions. [ 32 ] Following promotion to the Championship for the 2013–14 season, Brian Flynn was moved to become Director of Football [ 33 ] and overseeing the newly formed development squad [ 34 ] which would be playing competitive games. Paul Dickov was brought in a coach with Brian Horton as his adjunct. [ 35 ] To boost corroborate for their chosen charity, Bluebell Wood Children ‘s Hospice, the clubhouse signed singer Louis Tomlinson on a non-contract basis. [ 36 ] On 9 November, John Ryan gave an emotional farewell and stepped down as Chairman of the Club after 15 years, minutes before the kick-off against a Championship meet against Barnsley at Oakwell, amid reports of boardroom disagreements following a proposed coup d’etat bid by a hedge-fund consortium led by Sequentia Capital. [ 37 ] On 3 May 2014 Doncaster were relegated back to League One after just one season following a 1–0 kill to Leicester City on the concluding day of the season. [ 38 ] Rovers finished the 2014–15 season in 13th place, before being relegated to League Two after finishing 21st in 2015–16 with newfangled director Darren Ferguson. The 2016–17 season saw them being promoted back to League 1 at the first gear attempt in 3rd side Darren Ferguson left his stake in June 2017 and was replaced by another former Peterborough boss in Grant McCann ahead of the 2018/19 temper. Under McCann, Rovers finished sixth in League One, qualifying for the end of season play-offs where they faced Charlton Athletic over two legs. A 2–1 frustration in the first branch and an early Krystian Bielik finish in the second left Rovers with a mountain to climb at The Valley, but goals from captain Tommy Rowe and Andy Butler forced extra time. John Marquis put Rovers ahead for the first time in excess clock, entirely for Darren Pratley to equalise a infinitesimal late. Rovers lost the penalty shoot-out 4–3 with misses coming from Rowe and Marquis as they fell just shortstop of making the Wembley Stadium confrontation. McCann left in the summer for Championship side Hull City and was replaced by former defender Darren Moore ahead of the 2019–20 crusade. Moore moved to struggling Sheffield Wednesday on 1 March 2021, and Andy Butler was appointed as interim director for the remainder of the season. [ 39 ] For the 2021-22 season, erstwhile trophy winning Doncaster Rovers player Richie Wellens was installed as foremost team director, with Noel Hunt as assistant coach .
Players [edit ]
For players that have made at least 100 appearances for the golf club, see List of Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
current team [edit ]
- As of 6 September 2021[40]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on lend [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
academy [edit ]
The youth system presently has Category 3 condition with the U18 academy team play in the EFL Youth Alliance North East Conference league .
Non-playing staff [edit ]
Board
Role
Person
Chairman
David Blunt
Directors
Terry Bramall
David Blunt
Gavin Baldwin
Chief Executive
Gavin Baldwin
Director of Finance
Richard Poole
stadium [edit ]
Current home of Doncaster Rovers – the Keepmoat stadium
1885–1915 – Intake anchor [edit ]
For the first six years the club began playing their games wherever they could, on playing fields at Town Moor and the Racecourse. They gained a permanent prime in 1885 when they started playing their games near the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and so was known as the Deaf and Dumb Ground. A year late the stadium was officially named as the Intake Ground. A few months after completion, the roof blew off the stand, and the lapp happened in 1894 on the wardrobe and team officials stand after a gale. [ 3 ] They played their football there until August 1914 when the club went into extermination. A newfangled company did take over the club soon after but all English league contest was suspended in 1915 due to the First World War and the clubhouse was closed down and the establish turned into an Army terminal. [ 6 ]
1920–1922 – Bennetthorpe Ground [edit ]
When the Club was reformed after the war in the summer of 1919, the Army were placid occupying the old Intake Ground as a storehouse. They had wanted to move to Low Pastures but restrictions set by the local council meant this was not a viable choice. [ 42 ] The Club did not join the Midland League until 1920–21, by which time and as a temp solution, a plain was found on the confederacy side of Bennetthorpe for which they were given a biennial lease. [ 3 ] On the first day of the second season ( 1921–22 ) there, in the Midland League, the Bennetthorpe Ground saw 7,219 people watch Rovers against Gainsborough Trinity. [ 42 ] The ground consisted of a modest stall on one side and humble organize terraces around the flip. Some of the fencing/gates on Town Moor Avenue remain. [ 43 ]
1922–2006 – Low Pasture, Belle Vue [edit ]
With council restrictions on the six acre [ 44 ] Low Pastures web site having been satisfactorily negotiated, the Club moved there for the beginning of the 1922–23 season. large amounts of ash from nearby coal tips was laid as a base for the gear, serving it well throughout its years of consumption with brilliant drain. initially, there was a stand for 4,000 seat fans with terracing in front for another 3,000. The ground had a alone have in that family and away teams had separate entrances. [ 42 ] The stadium was opened in 1922 by Charles Sutcliffe, a representative of the Football League when it was named Belle Vue. [ 45 ] The first match there was against Gainsborough Trinity in the Midland League with an attendance of 10,000. [ 42 ] After two years, shelter was added for standing spectators on the “ popular side ”. A few years former in 1927, the stand from the Bennetthorpe Ground was jacked up and moved to the modern venue providing a shelter stand at the “ town end ”. [ 43 ] The “ popular side ” was extended in 1927 and concreted in 1928. Turnstiles, gates and fencing were added in 1935, [ 42 ] and in 1938 the “ democratic slope ” resist roof was replaced and put further back increasing the capacity of Belle Vue to 40,000. [ 43 ] In 1947 the stadium recorded its highest attendance of 37,099 against Hull City, although apocryphal accounts refute this and claim that many more gain entrance to the footing by climbing over walls and therefore avoided having to pay. Following the Bradford City stadium fire catastrophe, in 1985 the wooden “ Cow Shed ”, as the honest-to-god Bennetthorpe stand was known, had to be removed for safety reasons. Mining settling in 1987 mean a lot of the “ Pop Side ” was removed, drastically reducing the grounds capacity to around 10,000. [ 43 ] Further safety conditions imposed after the Hillsborough calamity led the capacity to fall to 7,294. [ 42 ] When the Westferry Consortium took over the club in 1998 one of the first gear guarantees was to help establish a fresh stadium for the club. Belle Vue had never been upgraded heavy since 1938 and despite minor cosmetic changes and the addition of some induct was actually showing its age by the fourth dimension Westferry took over. Despite this, some improvements were made in the last few years of its use as the Club rose out of the Conference, through Division 3 and into League 1. The Town End terrace was made condom and useable with portacabins added as administrator stands behind it. The Rossington End was besides extended and updated, with the capacity in its final examination years rising to around 11,500. In 2003 it was renamed the Earth Stadium after Earth Finance started sponsoring the land. Belle Vue was Doncaster ‘s home for 84 years .
2007–present – Keepmoat stadium [edit ]
A newfangled 15,231 all-seated stadium owned by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and rented by the club, was completed in December 2006. The first gear game at the fresh Keepmoat Stadium was against Huddersfield Town on New Year ‘s Day, 2007. [ 20 ] The game besides saw the first three red cards in the modern stadium. Doncaster Rovers ‘ center forward Mark McCammon was the first musician ever to score on the newly pitch in a football catch. The official open of the Keepmoat Stadium was on 3 August 2007, with Doncaster Rovers playing a Manchester United XI in front of a push of 13,080. United won the game 2–0 with Anderson making his debut for them. [ 46 ] On 19 June 2012 it was confirmed that Doncaster Rovers F.C. had secured a 99 year operating lease from Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council to lead the management of the Keepmoat stadium with a watch to improving operating results. The change placed the Club back in bang of its home stadium after the period of renting since its affect from Belle Vue ( besides leased from the Council ) in 2007. [ 47 ] On 11 August 2012, the stadium was formally handed over to chair John Ryan in a presentation before the League Cup link with York City. [ 48 ]
train facilities [edit ]
Doncaster train at Cantley Park which has been their main coach facility since June 2000. The web site was originally leased from Case IH. [ 49 ]
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Crests [edit ]
The coat of arms of the town of Doncaster that was used by Doncaster Rovers prior to 1972 .
The Viking cap used by Doncaster Rovers from 1972. Like most of the early on English football clubs, the original crest adopted by Doncaster Rovers was that of the local coating of arms. The coating of arms of Doncaster at the clock time was of two lions holding yorkshire roses in their mouths arsenic well as a bolshevik carapace depicting the old medieval Doncaster Castle. The coat of arms is primarily crimson and white which explains the team ‘s decision to adopt red and white as their coloring material. The club stopped using Doncaster ‘s coat of arms in 1972 when the Viking crest was introduced. In the sixties Doncaster council denied Rovers license to use the coating of arms and therefore a competition was held, from which the best blueprint would be selected as the clubhouse ‘s new badge. The achiever and stream crest was designed by a group of local students and named “ the Viking ”. When the fresh crest was introduced it included a monochromatic Viking prototype overlaying a bolshevik and white circle, which denoted the clubhouse ‘s colours, along with the year of the club ‘s formation 1879. The Viking double would become known as “ The Turk ‘s Head ”. besides included on the crown was a shield with the club ‘s initials – D.R.F.C. vitamin a well as the Yorkshire white rose in character to the club ‘s localization. The inset harbor was besides coloured red and whiten to denote the team coloring material. In the early 1990s the crown was altered, omitting the loss and white encircle background and the Viking trope was coloured gold. A far modification to the Doncaster Rovers crest was introduced in 2006 and used until 2012. This version included a fresh yorkshire rose design on the shield a well as a slenderly different Viking double in darkness yellow. The club reverted to the previously used design in 2012 with a two-tone gold backdrop. This is the version still in use by the club nowadays. [ 1 ]
Honours [edit ]
league [edit ]
English third tier
Champions : 2012–13
Play-off winners : 2007–08
— Northern half
— Champions : 1934–35, 1946–47, 1949–50
— Runners up : 1937–38, 1938–39 English fourth tier
Champions : 1965–66, 1968–69, 2003–04
Runners up : 1983–84 Promoted : 1980–81, 2016–17 English fifth tier
Play-Off Winners : 2002–03 Midland Football League [ 50 ]
Champions : 1896–97, 1898–99
Runners up : 1900–01, 1922–23 Midland Alliance League
Runners up : 1890–91 Yorkshire League
Runners up : 1898–99
cup [edit ]
Football League Trophy
2006–07 Sheffield and Hallamshire County Cup
1935–36, 1937–38, 1940–41, 1955–56, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1985–86 Conference Cup
1998–99, 1999–2000
League history [edit ]
Doncaster Rovers have played their football in the surveil leagues : [ 51 ] Midland Alliance League
1890–91 Midland Football League :
1891–92 to 1900–01, 1903–04, 1905–06 to 1922–23 Football League :
1901–02 to 1902–03, 1904–05, 1923–24 to 1997–98, 2003–04 to Present 2nd Tier – Division 2, Championship :
1901–02 to 1902–03, 1904–05, 1935–36 to 1936–37, 1947–48, 1950–51 to 1957–58, 2008–09 to 2011–12, 2013–14 3rd Tier – Division 3 North, Division 3, League 1 :
1923–24 to 1934–35, 1937–38 to 1946–47, 1948–49 to 1949–50, 1958–59, 1966–67, 1969–70 to 1970–71, 1981–82 to 1982–83, 1984–85 to 1987–88, 2004–05 to 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15 to 2015–16, 2017–18 to 2020–21 4th Tier – Division 4, Division 3 :
1959–60 to 1965–66, 1967–68 to 1968–69, 1971–72 to 1980–81, 1983–84, 1988–89 to 1997–98, 2003–04, 2016–17 5th Tier – Football Conference
1998–99 to 2002–03
final 10 seasons [edit ]
Doncaster Rovers: League Standings for last 10 Seasons
Season
League
Pos
P
W
D
L
F
A
GD
Pts
2020-21
League 1
14th
46
19
7
20
63
67
-4
64
2019–20
League 1
9th
34
16
11
9
51
33
18
54
2018–19
League 1
6th
46
20
13
13
76
58
18
73
2017–18
League 1
15th
46
13
17
16
52
52
0
56
2016–17
League 2
3rd
46
25
10
11
85
55
30
85
2015–16
League 1
21st
46
11
13
22
48
64
−16
46
2014–15
League 1
13th
46
16
13
17
58
62
−4
61
2013–14
Championship
22nd
46
11
11
24
39
70
−31
44
2012–13
League 1
1st
46
25
9
12
62
44
18
84
2011–12
Championship
24th
46
8
12
26
43
80
−37
36
Pos = Position ; P = Played ; W = Won ; D = Drawn ; L = Lost ; F = Goals For ; A = Goals Against ; GD = Goal Difference ; Pts = Points
managerial history [edit ]
This was the first plunder worn by the club in 1879 .
This was the first strip worn by the club when they were elected to the football league in 1901. From 1879 to 1885 Doncaster played in blue and white, and since then red and blank. The club ‘s first airstrip was a navy blasphemous and white denude with a yellow diagonal thwart. The kit uniquely included a blue Tam oxygen ‘ Shanter with a crimson toorie at the center. A solid crimson shirt with a bootleg collar was the first design adopted when the club foremost entered the English Football league in 1901. Since 2001 the club have played in a crimson and white hooped home shirt. The home shirts have been bolshevik and white hoop ( 44 seasons ), hearty red ( 37 ), solid white ( 18 ), and red and ashen strip ( 10 ). [ 1 ]
LNER pledged their sponsorship for 2 promote years after the 2018–2019 season. Stoneacre besides agreed a new narrow with the club to last until the conclusion of the 2021–2022 season extending the partnership to 13 years. *This sponsor appears on the spinal column of the home kit
actor of the year [edit ]
The following players have won Doncaster Rovers Player of the year award .
Records [edit ]
other teams [edit ]
Doncaster Rovers Belles have historically been one of the most successful sides in the women ‘s crippled, however over holocene years, partially due to highly controversial FA decisions and policy, they have fallen down the league ladder. They were formed by Rover ‘s lottery ticket saleswomen in 1969 as Belle Vue Belles. They merged with the Official DRFC Women ‘s side in 2003 becoming Doncaster Rovers Belles, though they were still run independently. In 2019 they became part of Club Doncaster. They presently play in the FA Women ‘s National League Division One Midlands. Their home games are played at Oxford Street, Rossington. Whilst not affiliated in any way to the English clubhouse, Doncaster Rovers of Melbourne, Australia, who play in the Victoria Leagues, were formed in 1967 and named after them. [ 52 ]
mascot [edit ]
The team ‘s mascot, previously portrayed by Andrew Liney, is a brown pawl known as Donny Dog that wears a red and white Rovers jersey. Before a scheduled appearance during the game against Huddersfield Town at the Galpharm Stadium on 4 March 2006, patrol prevented Liney from entering the stadium in costume, citing unspecified “ patrol news ”, and refused him permission to wear any part of the costume within 50 metres of the stadium. Mr Liney late received a full written apology for these baseless allegations from the forefront of West Yorkshire Police. The mascot was adjacent portrayed by Tracy Chandler and in June 2011, she was relieved from the position after she posed in her underwear for a Sunday newspaper. Later in the like workweek she was reinstated back as the club ‘s mascot. [ 53 ] A irregular mascot, a jaundiced hairy and bearded Viking with a helmet and wearing the away shirt named Eric the Viking, made its first appearance at the home game against Yeovil on 25 February 2013. [ 54 ]
Fanzine [edit ]
Doncaster Rovers ‘ fanzine is called “ popular Stand ” which was first gear launched in January 1998. previously there have been several other fanzines “ Raise The Roof ”, “ Warboys is calm God ” and “ Keegan Was Crap Really ” which are no longer being published. The fanzine sells at £1 which is the like price as when it was first published in 1998. All of its profits of the fanzine are donated to Doncaster Rovers or related causes. popular Stand is presently edited by Glen Wilson. [ 55 ] In 2016 popular Stand won the Football Supporters ‘ Federation Fanzine of the Year. [ 56 ]
Rivalries [edit ]
Doncaster Rovers ‘ chief rivals are Rotherham United, Barnsley, and Scunthorpe United, with Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Chesterfield, Leeds United and Mansfield Town all being rivalries to a lesser extent .
television [edit ]
In 1998 Rovers featured in a documentary on Yorkshire Television. This episode titled “Trading Places” documents and contrasts the 1997–98 season for two of the region ‘s football clubs ; Rovers heading out of the Football League and Halifax Town heading the antonym the way as Champions of the Conference. [ 57 ] besides in 1998 the cabaret was featured in the 1998 Channel 5 ‘fly-on-the-wall ‘ documentary “They Think It’s All Rovers” in which it showed the accrue of Rovers. [ 58 ] In the early 1980s there was a documentary about Billy Bremner as the director of Rovers. The documentary is noteworthy not only for the inside expression at the pre-match preparations, warm-up conducted in the dressing-rooms, starting line-up understand out as if it is coming to Bremner there and then, but for such rare footage of early 1980s Belle Vue, with a life-size Popular Stand and the Cow Shed still standing at the Town End. [ 59 ]
References [edit ]
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