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  1945-46   Reached the final of the League Division 3 (South) Cup against Walsall, winning 1-0first trophy and gaining their first Football League trophy (right)
1947-48   Finished 2nd in the League with a record number of 24 wins in the season
1949-50   Team's Golden Jubilee season. Lost 2-1 to Nottingham Forest in the Jubilee game. Finished 12th in the League
1953-54   First competitive meetings with close neighbours, Southampton, twice in the League and twice in the F.A.Cup
1955-56   Club admitted to being in serious financial trouble at the Annual General Meeting. General admission charge raised to 2 shillings
 
   
   
     
  1956-57   Arrival of Freddie Cox as manager, bringing a new brand of football to the club. Keen on youth development, Cox was also a firm believer in open, attacking football. The team had a tremendous F.A.Cup run, beating Wolves 1-0 in the 4th round, Spurs 3-1 in the 5th round at Dean Court and played the famous Busby Babes of Manchester United in the 6th round at Dean Court in front of a new record crowd of 28,799, unfortunately losing 2-1. As a result the club was awarded the Sunday Pictorial 'Giant Killers up'  
     
  1956-57   The Supporters Club was founded
1957-58   The Football League formed the Fourth Division, though Bournemouth stayed in 3rd Division as a result of their 9th place finish the year before.
1957-58  Freddie Cox left to manage 1st Division Portsmouth
1961-62  
Narrowly missed promotion to the 2nd Division by a mere 3 points

1962-63   Year of the 'big freeze' in which nine weeks passed without football due to theted mcdougall weather. Finished in 5th place
1965-66   Freddie Cox returned as manager. The team, however, came close to relegation
1969-70   Signed Ted MacDougall (right) from York City but nevertheless were relegated to the 4th Division
1970-71   John Bond replaced Freddie Cox as manager. MacDougall set F.A. Cup scoring record (6) in an 8-1 victory over non-league Oxford City. The club won promotion to the 3rd Division

1971-72  
AFCB and Ted MacDougall made National news headlines with AFCB winning 11-0 at home to Margate in the F.A.Cup with MacDougall scoring 9 goals - (A new record)
1972-73   MacDougall was sold to Manchester United for 200,000 pounds and the team again narrowly missed promotion

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

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1973-74   John Bond left for Norwich City. A huge player turnover followed and the team finished well down the table
1974-75   Relegated to the 4th Division
1978-79   The return of Ted MacDougall on a free transfer from Southampton. Alec Stock replaced John Benson as manager. Bournemouth won 7-1 against Doncaster in his first game as manager - their best win in 22 years. However, they eventually finished 18th in their division
1979-80   MacDougall left to become assistant manager at Blackpool
1980-81   David Webb became player-manager
1981-82   Finished season with 17 unbeaten games to finish 4th and win promotion to the 3rd Div.

 
1982-83   Webb dismissed and replaced by caretaker-manager Harry Redknapp until Don Megson was named manager. The team finished in 14th place in their first season back in the 3rd Division. A notable occurrence was by the appearance of the legendary George Best in the No7 shirt, a crowd of 9000 turned up to see the legend (left) he played a further five games at the end of that season.
1983-84  
A bad start to the season saw Megson resign and Redknapp take over as manager again. Though they beat Manchester United 2-0 in the 3rd round of the F.A.Cup, they could only manage a 17th place finish in the League.
  1985-86   Striker Colin Clarke played for Northern Ireland in the 1986 World Cup
1986-87  
Division 3 champions and promoted to the Second Division
1992-93   Appeared in the first live televised FA Cup penalty shootout, against Newcastle. With the score 2-2 after extra time, Bournemouth finally won on penalty kicks.
1996-97   Hard times saw the team go into receivership and almost cease operations. They were saved through a huge community effort which led to the formation of AFC Bournemouth Community Club, the first community-owned professional football team in Europe.

first trophy 1997-98   AFC Bournemouth's first visit to Wembley on April 19th resulted in an extra-time 1-2 defeat at the hands of Grimsby in front of a crowd of 65,000 in the AWS Final.
1998-99   A disappointing end to a promising season saw the team finish in seventh place, just out of the playoff picture.
2000-01   End of an era, when the South End was closed for demolition and made way for the new Stadium
2000-01   Jermaine Defoe (on loan from West Ham) equals Post War Record by scoring Ten goals in Ten games.
2000-01   Last game at Dean Court 28th April 2001 Bt Northampton 2-0.        
Click here for pictures of Old Dean Court on Matchday

2000-01   August - Ground-Share with Dorchester Town.
2000-01   First game at the New Fitness First Stadium at Dean Court 10th November 2001 Bt Wrexham 3-0, goals by: Stock, Hayter, Tindall
 
   
   
   
   
   
     
   
 

2001-02   Eddie Howe goes to Portsmouth for £400,000
2001-02   Relegated to Division 3 - PlayerShare, CherryShare Introduced
2002-03   Cherries reached the 3rd Division Playoffs after beating Bury 3-1 at Fitness First Stadium
2002-03   Cherries beat Lincoln City 5-2 in the 3rd Division playoff Final at the Millennium Stadium Cardiff. Cherries are the first team to score five goals in a playoff Final, also a record crowd of 32,500 for the 3rd Division playoffs.  
Click for My Pictures of the Day in Cardiff
2002-03   Mon 15th December - Replay Away - Cherries crash out of the F.A. Cup to Accrington Stanley Live on Sky Sports on Penalties
2003-04
   Tuesday 24th February, James Hayter makes the headlines, coming off the bench against Wrexham in the 84th minute and scoring a hat-trick in 2min and 20 sec, creating a British League record. Final score 6-0.
2004-05  Warren Feeney leaves for Stockport (Tribunal) Sept Captain Carl Fletcher moves to West Ham in a reported 275,000 deal.
2004-05  CherryshareII Launched
2004-05  Steve Fletcher scores his first hat-trick in his career against Brentford on 1-1-05
2004-05  Bournemouth Lose out on a Playoff Place drawing 2-2 with Hartlepool, whilst Steve Fletcher beat Sean O'Driscolls record of appearances
2004-05  Sale & Leaseback of the Stadium to a London firm 


25/11/2005

George Best dies in Hospital at the age of 59, George 37 played 5 games for Bournemouth
82/83 season and finished his Pro career here.


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2005/06  Brian Stock leaves for Preston N.E
2006/07  Elton John plays concert at the Fitness First
2006/07  Chairman Peter Phillips steps down, Abdul Jaffer takes over the realm
2006/07  Sean O'driscoll leaves Dean Court and takes over at Doncaster Rovers
2006/07  Darren Anderton joins the Cherries on a Pay per game
2006/07 
New Boss - Kevin Bond takes charge after
Joe Roach & Stuart Murdoch run the team for awhile
 

 
 

 
 

    

 

 

     
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