Aswick national football team

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Aswick
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)The Three Roses
AssociationThe Football Association
Head coachJohn Shepard
CaptainHarry Faslane
Most capsJohn Dempsey (158)
Top scorerLuke Callaghan (49)
Home stadiumHendley Stadium
CodeASW

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.

History

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.

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

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.

Media coverage

Personnel

Current technical staff

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

Players

Current squad

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

Results & fixtures

Records

Competitive record

Astycup

Honours and achievements