Kiveton Park F.C.
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| Full name | Kiveton Park Football Club |
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| Founded | 1883 – affiliated to Sheffield FA 1892 – official foundation date |
| Ground | Hard Lane, Kiveton Park |
| Capacity | 2,000 (50 seats) |
| Chairman | Bob Poad |
| Manager | Chris Nelson |
| League | Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Division Two South |
| 2016–17 | Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Division Two North, 3/12 |
| Website | Club home page |
Kiveton Park Football Club is a football club based in Kiveton Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They are currently members of the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League Division Two South and play at Hard Lane.
Although the club's official foundation year is given as 1892, the club was actually affiliated to the Sheffield FA in 1883, and even played games as far back as 1877. Its first club colours were believed to be red and black quarters.
In 1891–92 they were founder members of the Sheffield & District Football League (being Chesterfield F.C.'s first ever league opponents on the first day of that season) and lifted their first trophy after beating Sheepbridge in the final of the Sheffield Minor Cup.
For 1893–94 the Minor Cup changed from a knockout competition to a league, and Kiveton moved to join, also entering the Hatchard League at the same time. They were the first winners of the latter in 1894 and repeated the success two years later, remaining in the competition until the outbreak of the First World War.
Kiveton spent the majority of the time between the two world wars in the Sheffield Amateur League, with the exception of brief spells in the Sheffield Association League and the Holbrook & District League. They made their FA Cup debut in 1921, and reached the 3rd qualifying round of the competition two years later, losing to Rotherham Town at Clifton Lane.
The club, like most others in the country, did initially break up when the Second World War broke out, but in 1942 they joined the Worksop & District League, remaining in this competition until the end of the war. The 1945–46 season saw the club come close to winning two prestigious competitions – going out in the semi-finals of the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup and finishing as runners-up in the Sheffield Invitation League play-offs, after beating Sheffield United reserves in the semi-final at Hard Lane.
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