FALMOUTH TOWN AFC

1st Team Honours 1997
South Western League Champions
South Western League Cup Winners
Cornwall Senior Cup Winners
St. Austell Brewery Cup Winners

2nd Team Honours 1997
Cornwall Combination League Cup Winners
George Evely Cup Winners

Season 1996/97 1st Team Squad



BACK ROW:- David Ball (Manager),Gary Whieldon, David Sweet, Paul Sidey,
Luke Hodge, Steve Taylor, Alan Lenton, Paul Walters,
Anthony Tonkin, Adrian Street, Keith Barker (Assistant Manager)
FRONT ROW:- Jason Carwardine, Justin Asburn, Andrew Street (Captain),
Lee Cansfield, Lee Fox

After a summer when the previous manager, Ray Nicholls, resigned due to work commitments and many experienced players left to join other clubs, it looked like a season of mere survival for Falmouth Town.
However, nobody reckoned with new manager, David Ball, ably assisted by Keith Barker, being able to work miracles.
Thanks must go to those players who had stayed loyal to "Town". They were strikers Justin Ashburn and Alan Lenton, midfielders Andrew and Adrian Street, Jason Carwardine and Dale Band, and defender Dave Sweet.
So the search was on for new players. The experience of striker Lee Cansfield, midfielder Andy Wright, defender Paul Sidey and goalkeeper Steve Taylor was aquired, but still the team was sadly short of numbers. With any player worth his salt being already signed on by another club, the management team turned to youth. To the ardent Falmouth Town supporter, bred on years of having only the best players, this seemed like a suicide pact. How wrong we were to be proven.
In came mere boys in the shape of defenders Lee Fox and Paul Walters, midfielder Gary Whieldon and utility player Luke Hodge. Later in the season, defender Anthony Tonkin, also joined the squad.

Falmouth in Red and White, attack the Nanpean goal during the Cornwall Senior Cup final of 1997.

Falmouth Town AFC Honours Board

Western League Champions: 1974-75, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78
Western League Cup Winners: 1974-75
Western League Cup Runners-up: 1981-82
Alan Young Cup Winners: 1975-76 (joint winners), 1977-78
SW Counties Pratten Cup Winners: 1973-74
SW Counties Pratten Cup Runners-up: 1972-73
South Western League Champions: 1961-62, 1965-66, 1967-68, 1970-71,1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1985-86, 1990-91, 19991-92, 1996-97, 1999-2000
South Western League Runners-up: 1958-59, 1964-65, 1969-70, 1992-93.
South Western League Cup Winners: 1957-58, 1958-59, 1961-62, 1962-631967-68, 1970-71, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1994-95, 1996-97, 1998-99
South Western League Cup Runners-up: 1959-60, 1971-72, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1992-93.
South Western League Sporting Trophy: 1990-91.
Cornwall Senior Cup Winners: 1961-62, 1964-65, 1965-66, 1967-68, 1970-71, 1973-74, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79, 1996-97.
Cornwall Senior Cup Runners-up: 1966-67, 1972-73, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92.
Cornwall Charity Cup Winners: 1959-60. 1999-2000
Cornwall Charity Cup Runners-up: 1954-55.
Cornwall Combination League Champions: 1983-84.
Cornwall Combination League Runners up: 1999-2000.
Cornwall Combination League Cup Winners: 1996-97.
Cornwall Combination League Cup Runners-up: 1960-61.
Evely Cup Winners: 1996-97.
Cornwall Combination League Supplementary Cup Winners: 1993-94, 1999-2000
Cornwall Combination League Supplementary Cup Runners-up: 1990-91.
Furthest in FA Cup 1st Round Proper: 1962-63, 1967-68, 1969-0.
Furthest in FA Trophy 2nd Round Proper: 1977-78.
Furthest in FA Vase Quarter Final: 1986-87.
St.Austell Brewery Cup Winners: 1989-90, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1997-97.
St.Austell Brewery Cup Runners-up: 1992-93.
Aubrey Wilkes Trophy Winners: 1988-89, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1995-96.