One of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888, Burnley are one of only a hand full of teams to have won all top four professional divisions of English football.

Avenue first faced The Clarets in their first season as members of the football league, albeit at the time Burnley donned the green and white whilst Avenue sported the traditional red, amber and black.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Burnley

Relegated only once, in 1913, The Gunners continue the longest streak in the top division, and have won the second-most top-flight matches in English football history.

Once nicknamed the The Invincibles, it’s no surprise to see that Bradford has only managed to defeat Arsenal once in the past, in the 3rd round proper of the 1947/48 FA Cup.

The Lilywhites were amongst the first competitive opponents for Avenue after making the switch to Association Football, being fellow members of the Southern Football League in 1907/08.

Spurs also joined Avenue in being elected to the Football League at the end of the season. Since then, Tottenham went on to become the first British club to win a UEFA club competition, the first British club to win two different major European trophies.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Tottenham Hotspur

It’s a Yorkshire derby today as we look over the stats between Avenue and Sheffield United.

At the cutting edge of the beautiful game, The Blades are one of only four clubs to have finished as champions of each of the top four tiers of the football league. It’s no wonder then that they hold dominant bragging rights over Bradford when pitted head to head.

Whilst Wolves aren’t the biggest of today’s household names, they do rank among the top names when looking at all time stats.

In the all-time table since the league’s inception in 1888, Wolves sit fourth in terms of points gathered in all divisions at the end of the 2018–19 season, with only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal ranking higher.

Alongside this, they also hold the third highest total of all-time league goals. Only Manchester United and Liverpool have more. Take a look at the stats below to see how they match up against the Avenue.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Wolverhampton Wanderers

The board of directors of Bradford (Park Avenue) football club are pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Knight as their new director of football operations. In this role Mr. Knight will have complete control of all matters relating to football at the club from the first team down to the juniors. The club is currently working on an ambitious plan to improve Horsfall stadium and now needs to make changes to take full advantage of these amazing facilities once they are completed.

Club chairman Gareth Roberts commented, “We are very fortunate to have somebody with the knowledge and experience of Martin Knight available who can come in and help us build a successful and sustainable community club. It is even more important in these difficult times that we carefully manage our resources and we look forward to creating a club to be proud of”.

Martin has a background with more than 25 years’ experience in optimising the commercial performance of businesses across a varied number of sectors, most recently at SharkNinja, building a leading consumer brand. Martin focusses on developing a high-performance culture of leaders and operators, refining organisational structures and processes, and developing engaged and collaborative workforces. www.linkedin.com.in/martin-andrew-knightuk

“I am extremely honoured and excited to be joining Bradford (Park Avenue) and hope that with the support of our fans, staff, volunteers and board of directors, we can transform our club to be the standard bearer in how community clubs can operate on and off the field, from our junior section through to our 1st teams. There is a lot of hard work ahead of us all to achieve these ambitious aims, and a challenge of our current thinking and practices too. However, we have a lot of talented, dedicated and hugely passionate people involved already, whom I hope will join us in achieving this.”

Amongst the most famous and well supported clubs in global football, The Red Devils need no introduction.

Manchester United have won more trophies than any other club in English football, but Bradford (Park Avenue) hold something over them: When it comes to league games, Avenue has defeated United more times than they have defeated us (W9 D1 L8). Needless to say, we’re not counting the FA Cup in this, you’ll see why below!

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Manchester United

Stat’s sourced from 11v11.com – if you spot any inaccuracies please e-mail info@bpafc.com.

Today’s opponent has won over thirty competitive honours including six European trophies. Not bad for a side nicknamed “The Pensioners”.

It took 50 years for Chelsea to win their first major honour, the League Championship, in 1955. But since then they have become a dominant force in elite football. Needless to say, the stats below are weighted in the blue’s favour.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Chelsea

Today’s featured team shocked the world in 2015-16 by defying all the odds to win the premier league, gaining them the nickname: “The Unbelievables”.

It took Leicester over 130 years to reach the dizzying heights of top flight champions, and over that time they faced the Avenue on the field numerous times, so let’s take a look at how the two matched up.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Leicester City

Stat’s sourced from 11v11.com – if you spot any inaccuracies please e-mail info@bpafc.com.

Bradford (Park Avenue) are pleased to announce the signing of twins, Willy Eckerslyke and Woody Eckerslyke from Earls Park F.C.

Willy and Woody, aged 25, both join after making a phenomenal impact at the Sparks, both combining for 78 goals and 37 assists in just two seasons at the London-based club. Both proud Yorkshiremen, born and bred in the city of Bradford, they are excited about getting the opportunity to don the Red, Amber and Black. 

Woody stated,

“I’ve always been reyt keen to return to my roots in Bradford, its not been nice living dahn south for the last few years.
Pretty mingin’ to be honest with ya. Nowt like Bradford. There’s nowt better than being back home, and am excited to start playing for Bradford (Park Avenue), getting to know the rest of the lads and hopefully continue to enjoy me football.”

Woody followed on with,

“I’ve been telling our lad that this would happen. Like he said, there’s nowt better than returning home. Am excited about the opportunity that we’ve got, to hopefully help lift this club through the ranks. I rang me ma’ earlier to tell her, and she actually sounded happy for once the mardy get.”

When asked whether he thinks his brother will be the better signing, Woody responded with “Will he heck as like”. While Willy responded with, “Would he heck as like” when asked whether Woody would be able to outscore him next season.

Avenue manager, Mark Bower hopes the pair both continue what they have started, “Very pleased to announce these two new signings. Although to be honest with you, I couldn’t tell you which one is which. Called Woody Willy and Willy Woody earlier. But yeah, both scored plenty of goals and got good potential so I’m excited to see what they can bring to the team.”