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Bury
Full name	Bury Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Shakers
Founded	1885
Ground	Gigg Lane Bury Greater Manchester England (Capacity 11,669)
Managers	Chris Casper (Head Coach) Keith Alexander (Director of Football)
League	League Two
2006–07	League Two, 21st
Home colours 　 Away colours

Bury Football Club are an English association football team based in Bury, Greater Manchester. The team are currently playing in Football League Two.

Contents 1 History 2 Honours 2.1 Leagues 2.2 Cups 3 Players 3.1 Current squad 3.2 Players out on loan 4 Notable players 5 Trivia 6 References 7 External links

The club was formed in 1885, and took a lease on a pitch at Gigg Lane, which remains their home today. In 1889 they were founder members of the Lancashire League, before joining the Football League Second Division in 1894, which they won at the first attempt. They beat Liverpool in a play-off to clinch promotion to Division One. They stayed there until 1912.

Bury have won the FA Cup twice. On April 21, 1900 they beat Southampton 4-0 at Crystal Palace and before returning to the London venue in 1903. The latter win was achieved without conceding a goal in the entire competition, including a record FA Cup Final score of 6-0 over Derby County on April 18.

In 1923 they were promoted again, and in 1926 they achieved their highest League position ever, 4th in the First Division. But two years later they were relegated and never played top flight football again. Steady decline followed and by 1971, they had reached the Fourth Division for the first time.

They are nicknamed 'The Shakers' due to first chairman, JT Ingham who, before a Lancashire Cup game with Blackburn, said "We will shake them. In fact, we are the Shakers." Local rivals include Bolton Wanderers, Oldham Athletic and Rochdale.

Bury have produced great players over the years, including Les Hart, Dean Kiely, Terry McDermott, Alec Lindsay, Colin Bell, Neville Southall, Craig Madden, Lee Dixon and Roger Stanislaus. Perhaps Bury's most infamous player has been David Adekola, a Nigerian who came to Bury after successfully convincing football officials that he was a former Nigerian international player with top flight experience in Europe, though no records of such claims exist. Their recent history has witnessed some great success with youth development, with players such as Colin Kazim-Richards, David Nugent and Simon Whaley moving onto Premiership and Championship clubs to great acclaim.

Recently Bury became the first football club to score a thousand goals in each of the top four tiers of the English football league. ^[1]

Currently they are in the 4th tier of English football, League Two. They were relegated to this level in the 2001-02 season - only ten years beforehand they were one promotion away from returning to the top flight.

In 31-year-old Chris Casper, Bury currently have the League's youngest manager. In the past, they have been managed by Mike Walsh, Stan Ternent, Neil Warnock, Andy Preece, and Les Hart, who was both captain, physiopherapist and coach with 44 years service to the club. Most recently Casper has asked Martin Scott to step in as the new assistant manager due to the departure of Ian Miller to Leicester City.During the close season former Lincoln City manager Kieth Alexander was appointed Director of Football.

In late 2006, Bury enjoyed their best of run of form for the past decade with six consecutive league victories. They drew 2-2 away at Weymouth F.C. in the FA Cup on 12 November, 2006. This game was notable as being Bury's first ever live appearance on terrestrial TV and attracted a respectable average audience of 2 million, peaking at 2.6 million just before the end. However on December 20, 2006 they were the first team to ever be thrown out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player.^[2]

Since the FA Cup debacle, Bury failed to win in 16 games, and relegation to the Conference for the first time in the club's history became a possibility. This was successfully avoided.

Their home, Gigg Lane, is also home to F.C. United of Manchester who rent the ground from Bury F.C.

Bury survived the relegation battle this season, where a 0-0 draw with Stockport County ensured they will stay up to play another season in League Two.

• Football League First Division/Premier League: best position 4th 1926.
• Football League Second Division/First Division/Football League Championship: champions 1895; runners up 1924.
• Football League Third Division/Second Division/Football League One: champions 1961, 1997; runners up 1968.
• Football League Fourth Division/Third Division/Football League Two: promoted 1974, 1985, 1996.

• FA Cup winners 1900, 1903
• FA Youth Cup winners 1966.
• Football League Cup semi finals 1963
• Lancashire Cup winners 1892, 1899, 1903, 1906, 1926, 1958, 1983, 1987
• Manchester Cup winners 1894, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1925, 1935, 1951, 1952, 1962, 1968

As of 6 October 2007.

No. Position Player 1 GK Jim Provett 2 DF Paul Scott 3 DF Colin Woodthorpe 4 DF Ben Futcher 5 DF Dave Challinor 6 MF Paul Morgan 7 DF Steve Haslam 8 MF Ritchie Baker 9 FW Glynn Hurst 10 FW Andy Bishop 11 MF Brian Barry-Murphy

No. Position Player 12 MF David Buchanan 14 DF Andy Parrish 16 MF Nicky Adams 17 FW Jordan Stepien 19 FW Andrew Mangan 20 FW James Dean 21 GK Aaron Grundy 22 FW Domaine Rouse 24 MF Jack Dorney 25 MF Lee Bullock (on loan from Hartlepool United) 30 GK Cameron Belford

No. Position Player 15 MF Ben Leonard (at Tamworth until 23 October 2007) 18 MF Dale Stephens (at Droylsden until 23 October 2007) 20 FW James Dean (at Stalybridge Celtic F.C. until 16 December 2007)

• Les Hart
• Joe Bacuzzi
• Colin Bell
• Baichung Bhutia
• Luther Blissett
• Stan Bowles
• Lee Dixon
• Martin Dobson
• Derek Fazackerley
• Garry Flitcroft
• Brian Flynn
• Glyn Garner
• Bill Gorman
• Bruce Grobbelaar
• Colin Kazim-Richards
• Dean Kiely
• Alec Lindsay
• Chris Lucketti
• Terry McDermott
• Sammy McIlroy
• David Nugent
• Peter Reid
• Neville Southall
• Danny Wilson
• Laurent D'Jaffo
• David Lee
• Baichung Bhutia

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• Film director Danny Boyle is a fan of Bury FC and watches the games at the Gigg Lane on a regular basis [1].
• The radio broadcaster Mike Read is a regular fan as is musician, Mark E Smith The Fall.
• Bury FC are the only team to have scored a 1000 goals in the top 4 flights of English football.
• Bury is the shortest official team name in the English football league.

• [National Football Museum. Exhibition on Les Hart 44 yers service at Bury F.C.]
• Bury F.C. on BBC Sport: Club News - Recent results - Upcoming fixtures - Club stats
• Bury F.C. Official Site
• Bury F.C. Youth and Centre of Excellence Official Site
• Bury F.C. Media Micro Site
• Bury F.C. Official Message Board
• Y3K Shakers Site
• Odebayo
• The Consortium

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