Which city's football team returned to the Football League in 2014 after a nine year absence?
"Cambridge United who were both promoted from the 2013–14 Football Conference. Burton Albion won the League Two title after a 3-2 away to Cambridge United on 2 May. The following teams changed division at the end of the 2013–14 season. Promoted from Conference Premier Relegated from Football League One Relegated to Conference Premier Promoted to Football League One 2014–15 Football League Two The 2014–15 Football League Two (referred to as the Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship reasons) was the 11th season of the Football League Two under its current title and the 23rd season under its current league division"
"of Tony Pulis and more recently Mark Hughes, finishing 9th in the league for three consecutive seasons between 2013–14 to 2015–16, before eventually relegated in 2017-18. Birmingham City, who had two spells in the Premier League between 2002 and 2008, returned to the elite for the 2009–10 campaign one season after relegation and secured a ninth-place finish, the club's best in decades and one of their highest ever. Norwich City returned to the top flight for the first time in seven years, a season when the team needed a result against Fulham at Craven Cottage in order to survive, but"
"Another period under administration followed, and City dropped through the leagues of professional English football back to the bottom tier of The Football League, until promotion in 2012–13 brought them back up a division. In January 2013, City became the first club from the fourth tier of English football since 1962 to reach the Football League Cup final, and the first fourth-tier club ever to reach a major Wembley Cup Final. League football was established in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1894 when the West Yorkshire League was formed. A year later the Bradford Schools Football and Athletic Association"
"Championship. On 16 April 2013, Cardiff City earned promotion from the 2012–13 Football League Championship. They returned to the top division after being absent for 51 years. This was Cardiff's first season in the Premier League. This season featured both Cardiff City and Swansea City, marking the first time the South Wales derby featured in the top flight. It was also the first time that two clubs outside England were featured in the top flight of English football in the same season. On 4 May 2013, Hull City earned promotion to the Premier League after a brief absence of three"
"League Two Relegated from Championship Relegated to League Two Promoted to Championship 2014–15 Football League One The 2014–15 Football League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Football League One under its current title and the twenty-second season under its current league division format. The season began on 9 August 2014. Bristol City won the league to return to the Championship after a two-year absence. They were unbeaten for the first 16 matches of the season and also finished with the best goal difference and best defence. MK Dons"
"2014–15 Football League One The 2014–15 Football League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Football League One under its current title and the twenty-second season under its current league division format. The season began on 9 August 2014. Bristol City won the league to return to the Championship after a two-year absence. They were unbeaten for the first 16 matches of the season and also finished with the best goal difference and best defence. MK Dons pipped Preston North End to 2nd place on the last day of"
"Source: brentfordfc.co.uk Source: soccerbase.com For the 2013–14 season adidas return as kit manufacturers having previously supplied kits in the early 1980s. For the 2nd consecutive year local transport company SKYex is the kit sponsor. Source: brentfordfc.co.uk 1st Substitution, 2nd Substitution, 3rd Substitution<br> Source: brentfordfc.co.uk 2013–14 Brentford F.C. season The 2013–14 season saw Brentford return to the Championship after a 21-year absence, securing promotion from League One with three games of the season remaining and breaking their league points record. Brentford began their pre-season with an intensive training tour in Germany. Matches against Einheit Rudolstadt and FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt saw all"
"competition after fielding a side in the 2016–17 edition. Reading and Sunderland's academy sides were not invited after participation in the previous two years; Sunderland's first team will compete for the first time since the 1987–88 competition, however, following their relegation to League One. Barnsley and Burton Albion are both returning to the competition after relegation; they last competed in the 2015–16 season when Barnsley won the trophy. Macclesfield Town are competing for the first time since the 2011–12 edition, following their promotion from the National League. Fellow promoted side Tranmere Rovers are returning after a four year hiatus. Liverpool"
"and Bolton were eventually relegated in 2011–12, and Fulham in 2013–14. Fulham returned to the Premier League in 2018-19. The teams in the second season were Queens Park Rangers, Norwich City and Swansea City; QPR were relegated in the following season and Norwich in 2013–14, while Swansea were eventually relegated in 2017-18. Norwich and QPR would both immediately bounce back from their relegations in the following season, earning promotion through winning the Championship play offs in 2014 and 2015 respectively, however they were both relegated back to the Championship in the seasons that followed, and to date have not returned."
"2013–14 Football League The 2013–14 Football League (known as the Sky Bet Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 115th season of The Football League. It began on 3 August 2013 and concluded on 3 May 2014, with the promotion play-off finals at Wembley Stadium on 24–26 May 2014. The Football League is contested through three Divisions. The divisions are the Championship, League One and League Two. Leicester City, Burnley and Queens Park Rangers were promoted to the Premier League, while Bristol Rovers and Torquay United were relegated to the Conference Premier. The 2013-14 season was the first in a"
"1989. Luton became one of the only nine non-League teams since World War II to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup. Replay Source: BBC ITV Luton Town Norwich City Sky The Guardian The Telegraph Norwich City 0–1 Luton Town (2013) Norwich City vs Luton Town was an FA Cup Fourth Round tie, played on 26 January 2013 at Carrow Road, Norwich. Luton won the match 1–0. This was the first time in the Premier League era that a top division side was beaten by a non-League team, and the first time since Altrincham beat Birmingham City at St."
"back in the Championship in tenth place, their highest ever position in the Football League. On 25 October 2014, Bournemouth won 8–0 away at St. Andrew's against Birmingham City. It was the first time that the Cherries had ever scored eight goals in a league game and their largest winning margin in the league (barring a 10–0 win over Northampton Town in September 1939, which was discounted after the league was abandoned due to the Second World War). The club followed up this success with a 2–1 victory over Premier League side West Bromwich Albion in the League Cup, reaching"
"Town 5–0 at Anfield. Arsenal rounded off their successful league campaign in style, beating Everton 4–3 at Highbury. Manchester United limped to a poor draw against Charlton Athletic, completing a disappointing campaign for the deposed league champions. For the first time in the history of the Premier League, all three promoted teams avoided relegation – Fulham, Bolton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers. Blackburn Rovers & Bolton Wanderers avoided relegation until 2011–12, when the three promoted teams of 2010–11 coincidentally avoided relegation again, whilst Fulham avoided relegation until the 2013-14 season. Fulham had splashed out £34 million on new players during the"
"will be promoted to the Premier division, alongside the play-off winners from each division. The bottom three in each of the North and South divisions are relegated to the premier divisions of the Northern Premier League, Isthmian League or Southern League. Barnet returned the Football League as champions after two seasons in the Conference, while playoff winners Bristol Rovers returned after a single season, their only season outside the Football League since being admitted in 1920. Teams promoted from 2013–14 Conference North Teams promoted from 2013–14 Conference South Teams relegated from 2013–14 Football League Two Expelled from Conference National Teams"
"Power Company win the 2015 AFC Cup play-off slot. However, due to their low AFC MAs' ranking, they can not participate in this tournament. 2014 Intercity Football League The 2014 Intercity Football League (known as the MediaTek Intercity Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth season of the Intercity Football League since its establishment in 2007. The season began on 7 June 2014， Taipei City Tatung were the defending champions. A total of 8 clubs will contest the league, including five sides from the 2013 season and three new clubs. ""Note: Table lists in alphabetical order."" The preliminary stage"
"for the most demotions from the League (five, in 1908, 1911, 1920, 1987 and 2011 – though in all but the last case, they returned to the League the following season). After reaching the last 16 in the FA Cup three times, Lincoln won and progressed to the quarter-finals on the fourth attempt, when on 18 February 2017 they became the first non-Football League side since Queens Park Rangers in 1914 – and first outright since the non-League became feeder to the League – to reach the quarter-finals, registering a 1–0 victory over the Premier League's Burnley. Their best performance"
"with Football League Championship side Brighton & Hove Albion, and the Citizens announced that James Taylor would be taking over as the new manager in October 2012. However, City were relegated back to the Wessex Football League Premier Division for the 2013–14 season. In 2014, Winchester reached the third qualifying round of the FA Cup for the first time in 59 years, but were beaten 3-2 by Concord Rangers. The following season Winchester finished 2nd in the Wessex League Premier Division and, after Flackwell Heath turned down the opportunity of promotion from Step 5 to Step 4 of the National"
"the Premier League after being relegated at the end of the 2008–09 season. Blackpool beat Cardiff City 3–2 in the Championship play-off Final to join them after 39 years of absence from the top flight. It was the first time since 1983–84 that all four major West Midlands clubs—Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers—had been in the top division at the same time. It was also the first time that the Black Country derby was contested in the Premier League. With Portsmouth and Hull relegated and no teams from their respective regions replacing them, only four"
"of business. After nine years of non league football they returned to the Football League in 2014 by winning the Conference National playoffs. Cambridge City F.C. of the Southern Football League Premier Division now play in the adjoining village of Histon. Formed in Cambridge in 1908 as Cambridge Town, the club were Southern Premier League champions in 1962-63, the highest they have finished in the English football pyramid. After a legal dispute with their landlords, the club left their home ground in Cambridge in order to groundshare with fellow Southern League Premier club Histon F.C. in 2013-14 and intend to"
"highest league placing since being voted out of the Football League in 1960. With a 4–2 aggregate win over Grimsby Town in the semi-final, Gateshead played at Wembley Stadium for the first time in the play-off final; despite entering the match on the back of a 14-match unbeaten run they were beaten 2–1 by Cambridge United. Mills said after the match that ""I told the lads that they'll be better for it. My job next year is to emulate or better this season"". He was named the Non-League Manager of the Year for 2013–14 at the National Game Awards, ahead"
"October 2016. Doohamlet O'Neills' returned to the senior grade after a 1-year absence since being relegated in 2011. Carrickmacross Emmets returned to the top flight since relegation in 2013 after winning the Intermediate Football League. However both of these clubs were relegated straight back to the Intermediate grade at the end of the season when finishing 10th and 9th in the S.F.L. respectively. They will be replaced in 2017 by I.F.C. champions Donaghmoyne and I.F.L. champions Killanny. The two teams promoted from the previous years I.F.C. play against two of the remaining 8 senior clubs in a random draw. The"
"the finals of their respective divisions. The bottom two teams in divisions 1, 2 and 3 were relegated. 2014 National Football League (Ireland) The 2014 National Football League known for sponsorship reasons as the Allianz National Football League was the 83rd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland. The League began on Saturday 1 February 2014. Thirty-one Gaelic football county teams from the island of Ireland, plus London, participated. Dublin won their second title in a row and eleventh in total after a 3-19 to 1-10"
"2013–14 Southern Football League The 2013–14 season was the 111th in the history of the Southern League since its establishment in 1894. From the 2013–14 season onwards, the Southern League is known as The Calor Gas League Southern, following a sponsorship deal with Calor Gas. Following the liquidation of Premier Division club Hinckley United and the resignation of Thatcham Town from Division One South & West at the end of the season, plus the resignation of Vauxhall Motors from the Conference North, Fleet Town were reprieved from relegation in Division One South & West. The Premier Division featured seven new"
"2013–14 Football League Cup The 2013–14 Football League Cup (known as the Capital One Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 54th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for the top 92 football clubs played in English football league system. Swansea City were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Birmingham City in the 3rd round. Numbers within brackets represented a team's league level in the 2013–14 season, level 1 being the Premier League, level 2 the Championship, and so on. On 16 December 2013, it was announced that goal-line technology would be used in three of the"
"time and a return the top flight for the first time in 39 years. Blackpool survived in the Premier League for one season, but Preston were also relegated from the second tier to League One. Four years later, at the end of the 2014–15 campaign, Blackpool dropped to the third tier for the first time since 2006–07. Preston, meanwhile, ended a run of nine consecutive unsuccessful appearances in the play-offs and returned to the second tier after four seasons away. A year later, Blackpool were relegated to the fourth tier while Preston remained in the second. Preston have won fifteen"
"Community Shield supported by McDonald's"". Manchester City qualified for the 2014 FA Community Shield as winners of the 2013–14 Premier League. The club saw off competition from Liverpool and won their second league title in three years with victory against West Ham United on the last day. The other Community Shield place went to Arsenal, who defeated Hull City in extra time to win the final of the 2013–14 FA Cup. It ended a run of nine years without a trophy for the club. Manchester City made their 10th Community Shield appearance; prior to this, they won four (1937, 1968,"
"2014–15 A.F.C. Bournemouth season The 2014–15 season is A.F.C. Bournemouth's 2nd season in the Football League Championship following their promotion from Football League One in 2013. On 25 October 2014 Bournemouth won 8–0 away at St. Andrew's against Birmingham City. It was the first time that the Cherries had ever scored eight goals in a league game (barring a 10–0 win over Northampton Town in September 1939 which was expunged from the records after World War II broke out the next day) and they recorded their biggest winning margin in a league fixture. This season will be remembered as Bournemouth's"
"had withdrawn from the league after the 2013/14 season, they were replaced by Aberystwyth Town. Hafren United though also withdraw before the league starts, thus this season is played only with eleven teams. No team was relegated because Hafren United withdrew before the season. For the second time a League Cup was played. In the first round four teams (Hafren United, Caernarfon Town, Cwmbran Celtic and Cardiff City FC) were drawn to receive a bye to the second round. After Hafren United withdrew from the league, one team was drawn to have a bye in the quarter-finals. Caernarfon were replaced"
"while the others were released. 2013–14 Reading F.C. season The 2013–14 season was Reading Football Club's first season back in the Championship following the sides's relegation from the Premier League at the end of the 2012–13 season. It was also Nigel Adkins' only full season in charge of the club having succeeded Brian McDermott in March 2013. The campaign began with a home win over Ipswich Town and after ten games the team had lost only once and were in the play-off places. Six defeats in 13 games between October and the new year saw Reading slip to 9th, though"
"top four places. The bottom four clubs, Halifax Town, Stockport County, Northampton Town (who had spent a season in the First Division some 20 years earlier) and Torquay United, all retained their league status after a successful re-election campaign at the expense of Alliance Premier League side Bath City who were placed 4th in the Alliance Premier League and were the highest placed team there that would have met the Football League’s requirements. Re-election results are given at the end of this article. This year Wealdstone, the winners of the Alliance Premier League, could not apply for election because they"
"The club unsuccessfully contested the promotion play-offs three times in four seasons during their time as a non-League club, employing five different managers. In the 2012–13 FA Cup fourth round, Luton won their away tie against Premier League club Norwich City 1–0 and, in doing so, became the first non-League team to beat a side from England's top division since 1989. In the 2013–14 season, under the management of John Still, Luton won the Conference Premier title with three games to spare, and thereby secured a return to the Football League from 2014–15. Another promotion followed three years later, putting"
"2013–14 Crystal Palace F.C. season The 2013–14 season was Crystal Palace's first season back in the Premier League after 8 years. After a terrible start to the season which saw Ian Holloway resign and Tony Pulis take over as manager, Palace recovered and finished in an impressive 11th position. The club also competed in the League Cup and the FA Cup. In May 2013 the club unveiled a new badge for the coming season. The club had previously announced designs to update the badge, but after none of the original designs met with fan approval the club utilised a design"
"September 2015) Biggest away league win: 6–0 vs Walsall Wood (29 September 2015) Record FA Cup performance: Second Round Proper (2017–18) Record FA Trophy performance: Second Round Proper (2017–18) Record FA Vase performance: Runners Up (2015–16) On 21 April 2015, it was announced that Hereford would be the default team on the new edition of mobile game ""Football Chairman"". From the 2018–19 season, Hereford will be included in the popular football game Football Manager. Hereford F.C. Hereford Football Club () is an English association football club from the city of Hereford. They were founded in 2014 as a phoenix club"