Coventry Sphinx F.C.
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| Full name | Coventry Sphinx Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Sphinx |
| Founded | 1946 (as Armstrong Siddeley Motors) |
| Ground |
Sphinx Drive Coventry |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Chairman | Dannie Cahill |
| Manager | Stuart Dutton |
| League | Midland League Premier Division |
| 2015–16 | Midland League Premier Division, 19th |
Coventry Sphinx Football Club is a football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. They were established in 1946 and currently play in the Midland League Premier Division. They are currently the highest ranked non-League club playing in the city and play at Step Five of the National League System, which is the ninth level in the English football league system.
Coventry Sphinx FC were formed as a works team, Armstrong Siddeley Motors FC, from the Sphinx badge used on cars manufactured by that company, in 1946, playing in works leagues. Later they moved to a new ground in the Lower Stoke area of Coventry and changed their name to Sphinx FC.
Sphinx played in the Coventry Alliance with great success before joining the Midland Combination in 1993, where they were promoted in their very first season to Division 1, and also reached the semi-finals of the Birmingham Saturday Vase. In 1994–95 they were promoted again after a second-place finish. To coincide with their arrival in the top flight, the club's name was changed to Coventry Sphinx and the ground renamed Sphinx Drive.
In their first season in the top flight, Sphinx finished as runners up to Bloxwich Town after which Willie Knibbs took over as manager. Knibbs took Sphinx to the Endsleigh Challenge Cup Final in May 1999 where Sphinx lost out to Alveston in a match played at Villa Park. Knibbs reigned as manager for three and a half seasons before leaving for Racing Club Warwick but returned in 2001. Shortly after this, however, he was killed in a car accident returning from a cup game at Meir KA. The small covered stand at the ground (part seated, part standing) is named after him.
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