Cornwall County Football Association

Cornwall County Football Association
Formation	1889
Purpose/focus	Football Association
Headquarters	Bodmin
President	Brian Conyon MBE
Website	Cornwall FA

The Cornwall County Football Association, also known as the Cornwall FA, is the governing body of football in the county of Cornwall. Formed in 1889, they are responsible for the administration, control, promotion and development of football at all levels throughout the county.

Organisation

The Cornwall County Football Association was formed on 18 September 1889, at a meeting held at the Royal Hotel in Truro.^[1] Representatives from Dunheved College, Liskeard, Millbrook, Penzance, Porthcurnow, Probus, Torpoint, and Truro were involved in the meeting. The CCFA relocated to its present headquarters at Kernow House, Bodmin, in December 2009. Almost four-hundred clubs are affiliated with the association today, with approximately five-hundred teams playing 11-a-side football in Cornwall, making it the most popular sport in the county.^[1]

There are a further three-hundred teams playing youth football, and two-hundred-and-fifty playing small sided football, as the association aims to encourage people of all ages, genders, and abilities to be involved in the game.^[1] The association's most prestigious tournament, the Cornwall Senior Cup, was first played at Liskeard on 3 April 1893, where Penzance defeated Launceston by five goals to nil. In addition to the Senior Cup, the CCFA organises the Junior Cup, the Sunday Cup, the Women's Cup, the Durning Lawrence Charity Cup, the Under-18 PM Bartlett Trophy League, the Under-18 Rathbone Trophy, the Under-16 Luke Cup, and the Under-16 Girls' League.^[2]

There are thirty-one leagues that are affiliated with the CCFA, that cover 11-a-side, six and five-a-side, men's, women's, and youngsters from Under-9 to Under-18 years of age.^[3] There are three representative teams who compete at county level, the Women's, Youth, and Girls' Under-16s. The counties colours are old gold and black.

Representative team

The Men's representative team has represented Cornwall against international, as well as other county sides. Cornwall played three friendly matches against Trinidad & Tobago who toured England in 1953, and have competed against Guernsey and Jersey on a regular basis since 1998. The county is affiliated with the FA, and therefore cannot compete at full international level, such as the FIFA World Cup, and the UEFA European Football Championship.

Date Location Opponent Result[nb 1] 26 September 1953 Home Trinidad & Tobago 3–6 30 September 1953 Home Trinidad & Tobago 2–4 3 October 1953 Home Trinidad & Tobago 1–1 21 November 1998 Away Guernsey 6–1 20 February 2000 Home Guernsey 1–2

Date Location Opponent Result[nb 1] 26 October 2002 Away Jersey 3–0 11 October 2003 Home Jersey 1–0 16 October 2004 Away Jersey 4–1 15 October 2005 Home Jersey 2–2 24 March 2007 Home Guernsey 1–1

Affiliated Leagues

Men's Saturday Leagues South West Peninsula League** Cornwall Combination League** Duchy League** East Cornwall League** Trelawny League** Footnote: **Part of the English football league system. Ladies and Girls Leagues Cornwall Women's Football League Cornwall Girls League

Men's Sunday Leagues Cornwall Sunday League West Cornwall Sunday League Youth Leagues Kernow Youth League East Cornwall Youth League Other Leagues Cornwall Ability Counts League Cornwall Veterans League

Small Sided Leagues Carn Brea 5 a side League Cornwall 6 a side - St Austell Penryn Football Development Centre - 5-a-side league Soccer Nights - adult mens leagues in the Truro, Camborne, Penzance & Bodmin areas Futsal Leagues Futsal League - Cornwall College Camborne Futsal League - St Austell's Polkyth Leisure Centre Futsal League - Torpoint & Rame Community Sports Centre

Source:^[4]

Disbanded or Amalgamated Leagues

A number of leagues that were affiliated to the Cornwall County FA have disbanded or amalgamated with other leagues including:

• Bodmin and District League
• Falmouth & Helston League (amalgamated with the Mining Division League in 2011 to become the Trelawny League)
• Launceston and District League
• Mining Division League (amalgamated with the Falmouth & Helston League in 2011 to become the Trelawny League)
• West Penwith League
• Amor Shield

Affiliated Member Clubs

Members of the Cornwall County Football Association include;

Biscovey Bodmin Town Bude Town Callington Town Camelford Dobwalls Edgcumbe Falmouth Town Foxhole Stars Godolphin Atlantic

Hayle Helston Athletic Holmans Sports Club Illogan RBL Lanreath Launceston Liskeard Athletic Ludgvan Millbrook Morwenstow Mousehole

Mullion Nanpean Rovers Newquay Penryn Athletic Penzance Perranporth Perranwell Polperro Porthleven Portreath

Probus RNAS Culdrose Roche Saltash United Sticker St Agnes St Austell St Blazey St Columb Major St Day St Dennis

St Dominick St Ives Town St Just St Stephen St Stephens Borough Torpoint Athletic Troon Truro City Wadebridge Town Wendron United

Competitions

Cups

Competition	2009–10 winners
Cornwall Senior Cup	Bodmin Town
Cornwall Junior Cup	St Buryan
Cornwall Charity Cup	Newquay
Cornwall Women's Cup	Newquay
Cornwall Sunday Cup	St Blazey
Rathbone Trophy (U18)	Penryn Athletic
Luke Cup (U16)	Newquay

Leagues

Competition	2009–10 winners
Cornwall Combination	Illogan RBL
East Cornwall League	Torpoint Athletic
Falmouth Helston League	Pendeen Rovers
Duchy League	St Teath
Mining League	Illogan
Cornwall Women's League	Charlestown
Cornwall Sunday League	St Blazey

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b} Cornwall's goal tally in the scoreline is listed first.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} About Us Cornwall County Football Association. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
2. ^ County Cups Cornwall County Football Association. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
3. ^ Leagues Cornwall County Football Association. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
4. ^ "Cornwall County FA – Cornwall and South West Leagues". Cornwall County FA. http://www.cornwallfa.com/FixturesAndResults/Leagues/. Retrieved 2011-06-13. 

External links

• Cornwall County Football Association