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Deeping Rangers F.C.
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| Full name | Deeping Rangers Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Outgang Road Stadium Market Deeping (Capacity 160 (seated)) |
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| Chairman |  Graham Mason |
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| Manager |  Tuncay Korkmaz |
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| League | United Counties Football League Premier Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deeping Rangers F.C. is a football club based in Market Deeping, England. They were established in 1966 and originally played at Maxey Road until 1982, but didn't move to Outgang Road till 1985, the move was due to a rent dispute with the land owner. For the 2007/08 season, they are members of the United Counties Football League Premier Division.
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The Club was formed in 1966, 1964 as a Sunday League team, and tasted glory in their first season.
Based at Maxey Road, the Club won both the Peterborough and District League Division Three (North) title as well as the PFA Minor Cup in their opening campaign. Maxey Road was their home until 1982 when they moved to the Deepings Leisure Centre. From 1985 the Club have been based at Outgang Road, where they share facilities with Market Deeping Cricket Club and the Deeping Tennis Club.
The first team were champions of Peteborough and District League Division Two in 1968/69 and followed this success with the Division One title the year after.
In 1995/96 Deeping Rangers were runners-up in the Peterborough and District Premier Division, a feat they repeated in 1998/99, under the management of Mel Landin, this time to earn their historic promotion to the United Counties League Division One (UCL).
In their first season in UCL Division One, they finished third missing promotion in the final game of the Season. Chris Becket took over as manager for season 2000/1 and Rangers were UCL Division 1 runners up, losing out on goal difference but winning promotion to the Premier Division.
In their first season in the Premier Division Rangers finished 10th
2001/2 saw Deeping's first entry into the FA Vase (a 2-3 defeat at Gedling) and 2002/3 their first ever FA Cup match, losing 0-1 at Kings Lynn in the final minute. The team finished that season 5th in the League.
At the end of that season, Chris Beckett and Dave Simpson decided they had earned a rest from management and a new management team - Paul Kirk and Pat O'Keefe took over at the beginning of 2003/4 season. The season brought another away draw in the FA Cup, this time at Unibond league team Eastwood Town. Deeping earned a 2-2 draw and played their first home FA Cup match on 3 September 2003. Unfortunately they narrowly lost 2-1. The league performance was disappointing too, finishing 17th place.
Towards the end of that season, a new manager from outside the club was appointed, Vince Adams
For season 2004/5 Vince introduced a lot of new players and developed a number of the home grown youngsters. The season started well with the clubs first winning game in the FA Cup. The season was plagued with injuries, and they eventually finished 12th.
Season 2005/6 started badly with only 14 points from 20 games. However they did manage to reach the first round proper of the FA Vase for the first time, winning through two qulifying rounds on the way. League results improved at the beginning of December 2005 and up to mid January 2006 they had won 5 out of 6 but relegation was only just avoided, Vince Adams resigned at the end of the season.
Season 2006/7 started well under new manager, Tuncay Korkmaz. September was a new milestone in the club's history as for the first time ever they both topped the league and won through two rounds of the FA Cup, before losing at Rugby in the 1st qualifying round. On 20 February 2007 they topped the table by 12 points having played 28 league games without defeat, a league record. The unbeaten run was ended by Yaxley, after they lost 1-0, Deeping managed 29 matches unbeaten. As of 17 April, they were crowned champions.
| Season | Pos | League | Level |
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| 2007/08 | - /21 | Eagle Bitter United Counties League Premier Division | 9 |
| 2006/07 | 1st /21 | Eagle Bitter United Counties League Premier Division | 9 |
| 2005/06 | 20th /22 | Eagle Bitter United Counties League Premier Division | 9 |
| 2004/05 | 12th /22 | Eagle Bitter United Counties League Premier Division | 9 |
| 2003/04 | 17th /22 | Eagle Bitter United Counties League Premier Division | 9 |
| 2002/03 | 5th /21 | Eagle Bitter United Counties League Premier Division | 9 |
2006/2007 season:
Chairman-Graham Mason
Vice Chairman-Kevin Davenport
Secretary-Haydon Whitham
Treasurer-Paul Smith
Junior Section Chairman-Alan Smith
Head of Coaching N/A
Maintenance-Dave Holmes
Commercial-Ade Davenport
PR/Media-Andrew Bowell
Sports & Social Club-Andy Moore
1st Team Manager-Tuncay Korkmaz
Reserve Team Manager-Phil Jarmen
Physio-Sam Seale
Off the pitch the Club has continued to grow. The main stand on the first team pitch cost £33,000 and took three years to complete. Minor modifications were made over the summer of 1999 to comply with UCL regulations. The Club, like the Cricket and Tennis Clubs with whom they share the site, have the use of the £250,000 sports and social club, completed in 1999. In the summer of 2000, after a successful fund raising appeal, floodlights were erected.
In 2002 turnstiles were acquired from Wembley Stadium and these now form the centrepiece for a new ground entrance. The official opening was at the 2004 FA Cup tie against Glapwell, when the FA Cup itself was on show at Outgang Road.
During the summer of 2005 the main stand was refurbished adding seats bought from Coventry City.
Malcolm Christie (now of Middlesbrough)
Ben Wright (now of Lincoln City)
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A.F.C. Kempston Rovers | Blackstones | Boston Town | Bourne Town | Cogenhoe United | Deeping Rangers | Desborough Town | Holbeach United | Long Buckby | Newport Pagnell Town | Northampton Spencer | Potton United | Raunds Town | Sleaford Town | St Ives Town | St Neots Town | Stewart & Lloyds Corby | Stotfold | Wellingborough Town 2004 | Wootton Blue Cross | Yaxley |
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