Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C.
association football club in Bradford, England
Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club, sometimes abbreviated as BPAFC, is an association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The team competes in Northern Premier League Division One East, at the eighth tier of the English football league system. The name derived from their former home at Park Avenue, and was used to avoid confusion with Bradford derby rivals Bradford City.
The club was founded in 1907 and moved from the Southern League into the Football League the next year. They were promoted into the First Division at the end of the 1913–14 season, but suffered consecutive relegations by 1922. They won the Third Division North title in 1927–28 and remained in the Second Division until 1950. Promoted from the Fourth Division in 1960–61, the club were relegated from the Third Division in 1963. The club failed in their Football League re-election bid in 1970 and spent the next four seasons in the Northern Premier League before disbanding.
The present club is a phoenix club that was established in 1987. They moved from the Central Midlands League into the North West Counties League in 1990, gaining promotion from Division Two in 1990–91.
The public source identifies “Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C.” as association football club in Bradford, England. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bradford, Park and Avenue.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q896965. VIAF identifies the subject as 153865730. The Library of Congress control number is nb2008000084. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1913, 1922 and 1927.
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