Bedlington Terriers F.C. - (07988) 298094

Bedlington Terriers Football Club is a football club based in Bedlington, England. The club are currently members of the and play at Welfare Park.HistoryThe club was established in 1949 as Bedlington Mechanics and joined the Northern Combination. They won the Northumberland Minor Cup in 1953–54, and were Northern Combination champions the following season. They joined the Northern Alliance in 1955, and entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1959.The club disbanded in 1963, but were reformed as Bedlington Colliery Welfare in 1965, and rejoined the Northern Alliance. They were league champions and League Cup winners in 1966–67, and were runners-up the following season and again in 1969–70 and 1971–72, as well as winning the League Cup again in 1969–70.After leaving the Northern Alliance at the end of the 1978–79 season, the club spent the 1979–80 season in the Tyneside Amateur League as Bedlington United, before rejoining the Northern Alliance was Bedlington Terriers in 1980. In 1982 they were founder members of the new Division Two of the Northern League. They finished as runners-up in 1984–85, earning promotion to Division One. After finishing as runners-up in their first season in Division One, the following season saw them finish bottom of the table, resulting in relegation back to Division Two.

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