Bath City F.C.

Bath City Football Club are a semi-professional football club based in Bath, Somerset. They will play in the Conference National for the 2010-11 season after gaining promotion from the Conference South via the play-offs in May 2010. Their manager (since October 2008) is Adie Britton.

Formed in 1889 as Bath AFC, Bath City's history is entirely in non-league football partly because of the election system formerly used to control entrance to the Football League. They changed their name to Bath Railway in 1902 before settling on the name Bath City F.C.

After many years playing in the upper echelons of non-league football they spent a decade in the Southern Football League after being relegated from the Conference in 1997.[4] They were promoted to the Conference South by winning the Southern League in the 2006-07 season. They have an excellent cup tradition, reaching the FA cup third round no fewer than six times. In 2004 they continued this when they lost in the FA Cup second round to Peterborough United and in the third round of the FA Trophy to Canvey Island. In 2009, City beat Football League Two side Grimsby Town in the FA Cup first round, only to lose to Forest Green Rovers in the second round.