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Coachbuster
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They have played in 

the Premier League and the old First Division

Championship and old Second Division

League One , the old Third Division , Third Division North   AND  Third Division South

League Two and the old Division 4 .


It sure is a unique record
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Report 1st time poster December 5, 2020 9:12 PM GMT
other than div 4 i,d sayboro are a good shout
Report inner city sumo December 5, 2020 9:14 PM GMT
Wolves? Swansea? West Brom? Norwich?
Report Coachbuster December 5, 2020 9:14 PM GMT
nope
Report inner city sumo December 5, 2020 9:14 PM GMT
Scrub Norwich, they were in the old 4th tier I think not the recent one.
Report inner city sumo December 5, 2020 9:15 PM GMT
It's a great question.
Report Coachbuster December 5, 2020 9:16 PM GMT
ahh i didn't know that sumo about norwich ...i knew norwich had been in  both 3rd levels  ,old and recent
Report the wire December 5, 2020 9:17 PM GMT
Coventry?
Report Coachbuster December 5, 2020 9:18 PM GMT
yes , wire has it  Cool
Report inner city sumo December 5, 2020 9:19 PM GMT
Well done wire.
Report Coachbuster December 5, 2020 9:20 PM GMT
well done all  ... if i find any more odd ones like that i'll stick them up
Report 1st time poster December 5, 2020 9:21 PM GMT
top bombing wire,
now who,s watched them in all those divisions Laugh
Report the wire December 5, 2020 9:27 PM GMT
Thanks. I've seen them, as an away fan, at four different grounds. Happy I couldn't be there today.
Report Coachbuster December 5, 2020 9:33 PM GMT
interesting the wire , as  it was indeed a Rotherham fan that brought that Coventry fact to my attention in the first place    ...small world as they say Happy
Report the wire December 5, 2020 9:53 PM GMT
Cheers Coach. Saw Rotherham at Highfield Road, Sixfields and St. Andrews. Went to the Ricoh as a Lincoln fan. As far as I can see only Gillingham have played Coventry at all four grounds in league games. That would have been a tough one.
Report Coachbuster December 5, 2020 9:59 PM GMT
I'd forgotten all about Cov playing at 4 different grounds Laugh  that must be close to a record in itself   ...and yep , it would have been a bloody tough question  too  Grin
Report Coachbuster December 5, 2020 10:37 PM GMT
ah yes reg , Notts County just missing out on PL  ,similar to Luton and before that , Oxford .

By my reckoning only Wigan and Wimbledon have played in both the Premier league (92/93 on) and the National/Conference league  completing the 5 divisions  ... 

Bradford ,Oldham and Bolton could be next in line  to join them
Report CLYDEBANK29 December 5, 2020 10:43 PM GMT
Prior to the 1707 Act Of Union, what was the 2nd largest settlement in England and roughly what was it's population?
Report CLYDEBANK29 December 5, 2020 10:54 PM GMT
well done Reg.  Any guesses on it's population?
Report CLYDEBANK29 December 5, 2020 10:54 PM GMT
It was Norwich
Report 1st time poster December 6, 2020 9:32 AM GMT
coventry 1st all seater stadium,we at boro always seem to get coventry on boxing day [ highfield rd] ,great days playing shoot the pot in the back of a removal van by torchlight,with nthe stench of bstale beer and turkey sarnies on the way home Cry
willie carr/ernie hunt free kick,eat your heart out ronnie and messi
Report CLYDEBANK29 December 6, 2020 11:29 AM GMT
very good guess reg.  It was 25k.  These days it's somewhere around 80k just to make the top 100.
Report Earl E Bath December 7, 2020 8:14 PM GMT
Going back to Coventry & the wire's post of 5 Dec are they the only current league club to have played home matches at 4 different grounds? I can think of some who have played at 3 (Brighton for example) but not 4, being too lazy to check myself I thought I'd ask the much more educated forum members to confirm! (If this is indeed the case then Coventry at home to Gillingham is unique in English league history).
Report Earl E Bath December 7, 2020 8:25 PM GMT
Just to qualify that I'd restrict to after World War 1 as I know a lot of clubs had little-known grounds before becoming established at their known 'homes'.
Report smirnoff2therescue December 8, 2020 1:57 AM GMT
Anyone got a replica Coventry away shirt - chocolate brown/white stripr from back in the day - early 80s gotta be worth a few quid now CoolCoolCool
Report the wire December 8, 2020 11:36 AM GMT
Brighton have played on four grounds in the league and I visited them all as a Rotherham fan. They left the Goldstone (in Hove) in 1997 then had a ground share with Gillingham. The Withdean Athletics stadium was their home when they moved back to Brighton and have played at the Amex in Falmer since 2011. So four home venues and only one in Brighton. I've not checked to see if anybody other than Rotherham played on all four, they were at Gillingham for just two years so that will narrow it down.

I can't think of any team that has had five grounds whilst a league club. There are quite a few teams who played a few home games at other grounds for various reasons, Bournemouth at Dorchester, Leeds at Hull, Middlesbro at Hartlepool and Stoke at Port Vale for example but I'm only counting those that played on a ground for a full season.
Report Earl E Bath December 8, 2020 3:18 PM GMT
Thanks wire I'd forgotten about Brighton being at Gillingham - Coventry not unique then- any others than those two?
Report brians December 8, 2020 3:41 PM GMT
Don,t know if you know this sporting question.
What was the occasion when both teams at Old Trafford played and completed the match in an all white strip ?
Report lovegod December 8, 2020 3:47 PM GMT
Any England test match?
Report brians December 8, 2020 5:14 PM GMT
Correct ! Grin
Report bigmo December 8, 2020 8:41 PM GMT
Coventry?

My first thought that's us. Beat me to it. Well done.Laugh
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