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1945-46 Reached the final of the League Division 3
(South) Cup against Walsall, winning 1-0
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
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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' |
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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 the
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. |
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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.
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
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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.
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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
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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
2007/08
AFCB go into administration and get docked 10
points.
2007/08
Bournemouth get relegated after a fight, winning
five out of their last six matches and just miss out staying up.
2008/09
Bournemouth handed a 17 point deduction at start
of season.
2008/09
New owners Mostyn and Sport 6 take AFCB out
of administration. Sack Kevin Bond and Staff after bad start.
2008/09
Bournemouth
have confirmed Jimmy Quinn and Jason Tindall as their new management
team
following the sacking of Kevin Bond. Reinstate Eddie Howe as Youth coach.
2008/09 Darren
Anderton retires
2008/09 AFCB suffer shock defeat against minnows Blythe Spartens in FA Cup.
2008/09
Jimmy Quinn Sacked on New Years Eve after 4 months in charge, shortest in
Cherries History
2008/09
Paul Baker steps down as Chairman and wants to sell his 50% share
2008/09
Eddie Howe Given the Managers job until end of season - Steve Fletcher re-signs
for Cherries
2008/09
Steve Fletcher scores the 2nd and his 100th league goal to keep AFCB in the Football League.
Brett Pitman ends season with 17 goals.
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