Goole A.F.C.
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| Full name | Goole Association Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Vikings |
| Founded | 1997 (Goole A.F.C.) |
| Ground |
Victoria Pleasure Grounds Goole East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Capacity | 3,000 (300 seated) |
| Chairman | Chris Woodhouse |
| Manager | Dave Anderson |
| League | Northern Premier League Division One North |
| 2015–16 | Northern Premier League Division One South, 19th (transferred) |
Goole Association Football Club is a semi-professional English football club based in the town of Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1997. They currently compete in the Northern Premier League Division One South, which is at Level 8 on the English football league system pyramid.
Goole A.F.C. was formed in 1997, a year after Goole Town had disbanded.
They started life in the Central Midlands League, where they spent two seasons before joining the Northern Counties East League (NCEL). They won the Division One title at the first time of asking, and the Premier Division title in 2005, enabling them to take promotion to the Northern Premier League Division One. A re-organisation of the non-league structure during the summer of 2006 saved them from an immediate return to the Northern Counties East League, as they finished in the relegation places at the end of the 2005–06 season.
The club announced that they planned to change their name to Goole Town F.C. in June 2006, however the West Riding FA rejected the name change thus forcing them to remain as Goole AFC.
The 2006–07 season saw a major upturn in form, with a 7th-place finish earned after collecting just 5 less points than was needed to reach the play-offs, and 2007–08 was much the same with Goole missing out on the play-offs again after a faltering last quarter to the season.
Just before the start of the 2008–09 season it was announced that Goole A.F.C. had an unpaid bill of £30,000 to HM Revenue and Customs, which issued a Winding-Up Notice on 17 July 2008. Goole A.F.C. decided to enter into administration to enable a CVA to be agreed with HM Revenue and Customs. In that season, Goole A.F.C. were deducted 11 points (−1 for an illegible player and −10 points for going into administration.)
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