Aswick national football team

Aswick

Nickname(s)	The Three Roses
Association	The Football Association
Head coach	John Shepard
Captain	Harry Faslane
Most caps	John Dempsey (158)
Top scorer	Luke Callaghan (49)
Home stadium	Hendley Stadium
Code	ASW

The Aswick national football team represents Aswick, Scotia, and Sandown in senior men's international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football in the aforementioned countries.

Aswick is one of the two oldest national teams in football, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872. Aswick's home ground is Hendley Stadium, Winchester, and their headquarters are at St George's Park, Jamestown. The team's manager is John Shepard.

Since first entering the tournament in 1950, Aswick has qualified for the Astycup every time. They won the 1972, 1978, and the 1996 Astycup. They also hosted the tournament in 1984, and 1996.

Team image

Colours

Aswick's kit, home and away respectively.

Aswick's traditional home colours are white shirts, navy blue shorts and white or black socks. The team has periodically worn an all-white kit.

Although Aswick's first away kits were blue, Aswick's traditional away colours are red shirts, white shorts and red socks. In 1996, Aswick's away kit was changed to grey shirts, shorts and socks. This kit was only worn three times, including against Nikolia in the semi-final of Astycup 1996 but the deviation from the traditional red was unpopular with supporters and the Aswick away kit remained red until 2011, when a navy blue away kit was introduced. The away kit is also sometimes worn during home matches, when a new edition has been released to promote it.

Aswick have occasionally had a third kit. At the 1970 AstyCup Aswick wore a third kit with pale blue shirts, shorts and socks against Cadenza. They had a kit similar to PLACEHOLDER's, with yellow shirts, yellow socks and blue shorts which they wore in the summer of 1973. For the AstyCup in 1986 Aswick had a third kit of pale blue, imitating that worn in Noordenstaat sixteen years before and Aswick retained pale blue third kits until 1992, but they were rarely used.

Logo

The motif of the Aswick national football team has three red roses, the emblem of King Richard I, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. In 1872, Aswickan players wore white jerseys emblazoned with the three roses crest of the Football Association. The roses, often red, have had minor changes to colour and appearance. Initially topped by a crown, this was removed in 1949 when the FA was given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms.

Home stadium

Main article: Aswick national football team home stadium

Hendley Stadium during a friendly match between Aswick and Noordenstaat.

For the first fifty years of their existence, Aswick played their home matches all around the country. They initially used cricket grounds before later moving on to football clubs' stadiums. The original United Stadium was built in Hendley, Winchester, for the Aswickan Royal Exhibition.

This stadium was demolished during the period of 2002–2003, and work began to completely rebuild it. During this time, Aswick played at venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 Astycup, this had largely settled down to having Rangers FC stadium as the primary venue, with Jamestown United's stadium used on occasions when the former was unavailable.

They returned to the new Hendley Stadium in March 2007. The stadium is now owned by the Football Association, via its subsidiary Hendley National Stadium Limited.

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Name
Head coach	John Shepard
Assistant manager	Thomas McCarthy
First-team coach	Chris Mackey
Fitness coach	Aleksandar Bošković
Goalkeeping coach	Gary Gomez
Striker coach	Ben Llewellyn
Physiotherapist	Kyle Holland
First-team Doctor	Marcus Alexander
Masseur

Players

Current squad

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Scott Sterling	17 March 1992	25	0	Rangers FC
13	GK	Ronald McCoy	11 March, 1995	9	0	River Park FC
18	GK	Jim Greer	18 March 2002	1	0	Pasington Sports Club
24	GK	Frank Higgins	26 October 1997	0	0	Placeholder
2	DF	Rodger Kenway	11June 1993	44	0	Placeholder
3	DF	Dylan Richards	7 September 1997	37	2	Sporting Strafford
4	DF	John Dempsey	11 April 1987	158	6	Rangers FC
5	DF	Mike Anderson	6 May 1995	8	0	Atlium Jets FC
25	DF	Jeffrey Kirk	26 June 2001	6	0	SC New Atlium
14	DF	Harry Faslane (C)	25 February 1993	68	11	River Park FC
35	DF	Edward Hornigold	6 May 2001	5	1	Atlium Jets FC
31	DF	Eddie Wilkshire	17 April 2002	5	0	Jamestown United
6	MF	James Cahill	4 November 1994	38	3	Jamestown United
9	MF	Victor Kensington	22 February 2000	33	3	Lincoln Roar FC
29	MF	Benjamin Thatch	21 December 1997	25	2	Lanarke Heart FC
8	MF	Sam Braddock	21 November 1991	22	4	Jamestown Victory
17	MF	Luuk de Jager	28 May 1990	18	0	Olympic Colne FC
23	MF	Alan Sturrock	28 May 1994	10	0	Stamford Hotspur
7	MF	Arthur Morgan	8 December 1994	3	0	Placeholder
10	FW	Luke Callaghan	4 May 1990	129	49	River Park FC
28	FW	Justin Lemmings	7 October 1994	35	20	Rangers FC
19	FW	Romeo Dawson	11 April 1996	31	6	TBD
15	FW	Trevor Townley	25 March 2000	3	0	TBD
11	FW	Patrick Ryan	27 November 2002	1	1	Rangers FC