4–1), ensuring another season in the fourth tier. However their stay in the third tier of the football pyramid was only to last for one season, as a final day defeat against Colchester United condemned the Gulls to a return to the 4th division of the leagues after narrowly being edged out by Milton Keynes Dons for safety in Football League One. The Richmond Hotel is rated "Good" by our guests. On 29 January 2011, they had the possibility of progressing to the fifth round of the FA Cup, but lost 0–1 to Conference Premier leaders Crawley Town. Had the team won a point in their final game of the season at Leyton Orient, they would have gone up automatically, but they lost the game 2–1. They met Shrewsbury Town in the play-off semi-final, progressing to the final thanks to a 2–0 aggregate win, with both goals coming in the home leg.

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They finished 12th, but reached the fourth round of the FA Cup for the third time, going out of the competition at Plainmoor after a thrilling 2–3 defeat at the hands of Sheffield Wednesday. In 1904 Athletic secured the lease on the Recreation Ground from United, with League rivals Ellacombe taking over the lease of Plainmoor, leaving United homeless for the first time in their existence – facilitating a return to the farmer's fields on Teignmouth Road. It is likely the Gulls will reach October 3 without adding anyone else – and it must be decades since a Torquay squad has started a season without at least one or two – if not more – loan players involved on the first Saturday.

Post navigation. Yes It may be only 1% as you say, but they could never lose control. And obviously, all the cleaning has to be done.”  He added: “If you look at the rules, there has got to be more cleaners than players. Recent movement at Plainmoor Limited where an extra £1.7m of share capital has been issued - presumably capitalising the loans Thea had made to Plainmoor Limited.

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Does anyone actually know which shares lie where and what or who owns what? His major addition to United's playing staff, player-coach Don O'Riordan, took the senior job. It was a period of my career which I deeply regret, but I learned from the experience".[10].

[24], Early in 2015, chairwoman Thea Bristow announced that the club was up for sale. The team's first season in the league, however, was not a success – they followed up the draw with Exeter with a 9–1 thrashing away at Millwall.

Torquay went on to finish in sixth place that season and during the summer break had the audacity to apply for Football League status, but failed to gain a single vote, seeing Boscombe elected to the league instead. In his first season in charge, O'Farrell oversaw Torquay's second promotion when they finished third in Division Four, while England won the World Cup on home soil. However, despite the high-profile signing of Justin Fashanu, football's first openly gay footballer, the appointment of Ivan Golac as manager and well publicised visits of Julie Goodyear to the dressing room, United were relegated again after just one season. The introduction of the FA Premier League at the end of the season meant they were relegated from Division Three to Division Three. By the 19th century, most of the land was owned by three families: the Carys, the Palks, and the Mallocks. I thought there was a 30 something in there somewhere! Thea Bristow, Dave Phillips, Mervyn Balson, Harry Kerswell and Angela Richards each own 20% of Plainmoor Limited. The season started with a 6–1 victory over Wrexham at Plainmoor, and ended with Torquay just missing out on automatic promotion, but earning a play-off place, losing in the play-off final to Swansea City after losing 1–2 in Wales, and battling to a 3–3 draw at a rain-soaked Plainmoor, the Swans being promoted on a 5–4 aggregate. The first attempt at a replay in London was cancelled, with the majority of United's travelling fans having already arrived in the capital. United played their very first game, a friendly, against an Upton Cricket Club XI on one of farmer John Wright's fields, which was situated at the top of Penny's Hill, on Teignmouth Road. [28], The 2016/17 season started amid much uncertainty, with the club struggling financially whilst looking for new ownership and economic security.

Tranmere secured safety by winning their final game on the Friday night.

That is a clear sign to anyone that the consortium’s involvement is a continuation of and a stepping-up of a very long-term commitment to and passion for TUFC – not some whim or passing fad. This has led to a decision to postpone talks between Torbay Council and GI over the purchase of the freehold.[48].

However Torquay's lacklustre start to the campaign, with only 12 points and 5 goals in 9 games meant that Owers stepped down from his role one day shy of a year in charge. Despite Ling announcing that the team were looking for another promotion season, they were stuck in mid-table during the first half of the 2012–13 campaign, before Ling was taken ill in mid-January.

For the 1985–86 season David Webb became managing director and appointed Stuart Morgan as manager. (later to become A.F.C. That would leave TUPL owning 80% of Plainmoor Limited which owns … Mike Bateson took over as Torquay chairman in May 1990, taking over from Lew Pope.

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However, for the second successive year United finished bottom of Division Four, and again had to apply for re-election. During this time Lew Pope had taken over as Chairman from Tony Boyce, and in February 1984 former Chelsea favourite Dave Webb took charge of the club. Torquay had disposed of Swansea City and Cardiff City in the group stages before beating Gillingham, Bristol Rovers, Hereford United and finally Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Southern final to reach the final. Notable Torquay players from the pre-war era include Paignton-born George Stabb, who scored 24 goals during the 1932–33 season, stalwart Albert Hutchinson (84 goals in 338 games from 1930–38) and Dartmouth-born winger Ralph Birkett, who later went on to play with distinction for Arsenal and Middlesbrough and win one full England cap. At the end of their 1966–67 campaign United finished in seventh, and at the end of their 1967–68 season, United came very close to promotion to Division Two, once again.

Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. The start of the 1987–88 season marked the dawn of a new era in Torquay United's history.

2002–03 would see a major improvement over the previous two campaigns and a finish of 9th place, with only a late run of bad results keeping Torquay out of the play-offs. Nobody was hurt, but as a result, the ground's capacity fell to below 5,000. The new club entered the Southern Football League, famous for being the team that Tottenham Hotspur played in when becoming the only non-league team to win the FA Cup, once again playing alongside Plymouth and Exeter's reserve sides and also Boscombe F.C. This means (If I know what I'm talking about) that no one could join up with Sadler and add their shares with his to get control. O'Farrell made a return to Plainmoor in 1976 when Malcolm Musgrove lost his job after a disappointing FA Cup defeat against non-league outfit Hillingdon Borough.

“I am really looking forward to that. After finishing 3rd in the Conference Premier, Torquay had to play their fiercest rivals Exeter City to determine who would reach the play-off final to play either Cambridge United or Burton Albion.