The Barnet FC (officially: Barnet Football Club) – also known as The Bees (German bees) – is an English football club based in Barnet, a suburb of London’s northern border.
The longtime amateur club was not until 1965 that official to a professional association that began in 1991 for the first time participate in professional football, the Football League and played for the previous four years’ residence in the semi-professional Conference Division since 2005 in the Football League Two, which is the fourth-highest division in England.
Barnet FC was founded in 1888. Previously, he was known as the Woodville FC (1882-1885) and then as New Barnet FC (1885 to 1888), where the teams were recruited mainly from graduates of the Cowley College and Lyon down the Collegiate School in New Barnet. From November 1889 the new club played in the “Queens Road” after previously been the “Victoria Recreation Ground,” the present day.
After a few friendly matches in the loosely organized “Olympian League,” the FC Barnet in 1892 was a founding member of the “North London League” for and later won after two runner-ups in Division 1 of the “North Middlesex League” in the years 1895 and 1896 with the title in the Premier Division, the first trophy.
It was followed by appearances at the local cup competitions, both youth and adults in the area.
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At that time, the club defeated the stamp clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Thames Ironworks (later: “West Ham United”), but made mainly through duels against the Northern clubs North Enfield, Finchley and Hendon Town FC talked about. A special rivalry developed further to the “Avenue Barnet Football Club.”
The FC Barnet won in 1898 the second division championship in the London League and then played in the major leagues this league – together with Woolwich Arsenal (later: “Arsenal”), Thames Ironworks, Clapton Orient (later: “Leyton Orient“), the Queens Park Rangers and the reserve team of Mill wall Athletic (later: “Millwall FC”) and Tottenham Hotspurs.
In the first major crisis of the club collapsed in 1899, when the “London Football Authority” a six-week stops disapproving of the Barnet FC. He had previously paid more than once, despite his amateur status to its players sums of money.
The lock led the club in a financial emergency, which had, among other things means that the local venue was rented out to local rivals Barnet Avenue.
The Barnet FC tried to continue operating the game in the niederklassigeren “North Middlesex League” maintains, but because of the crushing debt load, the club broke in November 1901 at the end.
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