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104 Yr Wait For Top Flight Football

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tali1 | 18:19 Mon 19th Aug 2013 | Football
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Is Hull City's 104 yr wait for playing top flight football in 2008 the longest in British football ?
How many teams are above 104 yrs and not managed it?
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This one might take some beating: Bristol Rovers founded in 1883 - 130 years ????
22:38 Mon 19th Aug 2013
Plymouth
According to the following link from The Guardian, 64 teams have played in the top flight (Glossop North End being in 64th place):

http://www.theguardian.com/football/datablog/2013/apr/17/football-league-125-years
Gizmonster - did you find any teams which beat Hull and Plymouth's records?
What record have Plymouth set ??
Did you read the OP question. Hullo took 104 years to get into the top flight. The question was - any teams over 104 years?

Yes - Plymouth is the largest city in England never to have had a top flight club. They have been formed since 1903 - so they have been waiting 110 years.
.... and I think they'll be waiting for quite a bit longer as well :)
Mansfield Town - formed in 1897 and never played in the top league .... I'm sure there'll be others that have waited longer .... if anyone cares (can be arsed) to look ????
Wycombe Wanderers formed in 1887 - I suppose this still counts, as they are a "proper" football team, even though the majority of the time, they have been in the non-league ????
This one might take some beating:
Bristol Rovers founded in 1883 - 130 years ????
..... and the winner is:

Sheffield F.C.

...... nothing to do with Sheffield Wednesday or Sheffield United - a completely different club, still going and currently playing in the Northen Premier League, Division 1 South.

Sheffield F.C. is the world's oldest football club, founded in 1857 (156 years ago) and have never played in the top flight, since the league started in 1888.

I suppose technically speaking, no team could have been waiting more than 125 years, 'cos that's when the football league first started.
I've played against Sheffield FC in the old Yorkshire league days.

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