The Magpies hold the ninth highest total of trophies won by an English club and, as it stands, are the 17th-highest revenue producing club in the world in terms of annual revenue.

Newcastle United has been a member of the Premier League for all but three years of the competition’s history, spending 87 seasons in the top flight as of May 2019. Additionally, since joining the Football League in 1893, they have never dropped below English football’s second tier.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Newcastle United

A founding member of the football league, The Toffees hold the record for the highest number of seasons in the top flight.

Despite their longevity, Everton is often overshadowed by their neighbours, Liverpool, a team they in-fact played a large part in creating. In 1892, Everton left their then home of Anfield due to a dispute over increasing rents. The owner of Anfield then went on to try taking over Everton by setting up a company in their name, but was denied by the football association. As such a new club was formed, and the fierce Merseyside rivalry ensued.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Everton

The Glaziers joined the Football League in 1920, and have spent the majority of their league history competing in the top two tiers of English football.

Palace became one of the original founding members of the Premier League, but quickly went on to set two unwanted Premier League records for relegation. In 1992–93 they were relegated on 49 points, which is still a record number of points for a relegated Premier League club. They are also the only club ever to be relegated from the Premier League when finishing fourth from bottom in 1994–95, as it had been decided that the league would be reduced from 22 to 20 clubs for the following season.

Bradford (Park Avenue) VS Crystal Palace

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.”