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Launching a mini-football annual known as The Athletic News Football Supplement and Club Directory must have been a considerable gamble with international and FA Cup football still in their infancy and plans for organised national league football still at discussion stage. The 2022/23 campaign is over and done with, so now their attention can only turn to the next one, and with clubs still needing cash to boost their finances to make up for the last few seasons, now is the perfect time to release them to supporters. Blyth Spartanstry to improve with the first stop a home tie with Gloucester Citywhile Curzon Ashtontake a trip to Darlington. We take a look at the latest latest new 23/24 kits from Premier League, EFL and National League clubs, and most of them have gone down well.Chelmsford Citywelcome Farnboroughwhile new arrivals Aveleyand Truro Citybegin against Chippenhamand Wellingrespectively. Oxford Citymake the trip to Aldershotas FC Halifaxfans get the home opener they wanted – the FA Trophy winners get a visit from Bromley. The National League’s top tier sees six new sides this season – Rochdale and Hartlepool United who were relegated out of the Football League, with playoff final runners-up Chesterfield tipped to go up along with Oldham Athletic. This is the first shirt produced for the League One club by new kit suppliers Oxen, and includes an eagerly-anticipated return to an embroidered club badge.

Following the withdrawal of News of the World as sponsors, the Nationwide Building Society emerged to provide new sponsorship in 2008. [4] This sponsorship lasted for two years, with the title Nationwide Football Annual being retained after the end of the sponsorship. Barnes took over for the 2000-01 edition, the 114th. He says: “Attempts are being made to hand over the baton so the world’s oldest football annual can have a new lease of life. Some interest has been shown but nothing confirmed.” The 2023/24 season for CPFC will mark a club record of 11 consecutive seasons in the top-flight of English football (and 16th in total since the Premier League began in 1992).

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Facsimile copies of the Athletic News Football Annuals for 1887-88 to 1900-01 and 1915-16 to 1918-19, were produced by the Association of Football Statisticians during the 1980s. [5] Details [ edit ] Those who could afford an English daily newspaper in 1887 were restricted to The Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph. Iin keeping with tradition, the Foxes made their debut in the new design during the final home game of the current season against West Ham United, giving fans their first glimpse of the new look for 2023/24. The book has incorporated a number of illustrations for many years, and since 1948 these have regularly included team photos of a few of the previous season's most successful sides. Since 1985 the annual has also included very brief obituaries ('The Final Whistle') for selected former players and officials dying within the previous twelve months. [3]