FROM PREMIER LEAGUE to NON LEAGUE in 30 YEARS!!! Oldham Athletic Football Club

I visited Oldham Athletic Association Football Club as they've recently become the first team to have played in the Premier League AND Non League.

I got let inside Boundary Park for a quick look around and also investigated the history of this old football club.

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[FootyAdventures]

Will Oldham be back in the EFL one day soon???

[darioarco]

People like the Oldham supporter at the end of the video - who just stand by their team, no matter what, are the reason why I feel in love with English football. They will forever be the heart of football.

[nuttysquirrel]

As a life-long Oxford United fan I am sad to say that we beat this record by quite a number of years. The Yellows graced the old First Div, before it was renamed as the Premier League, for 3 seasons between 1985-88, winning the League Cup in 1986 by the then biggest margin of 3-0. Like the fate of Oldham we had shyster owners begining with maxwell and ending with kassam and we found ourselves in the Conference in 2006, just 20yrs after being in the 'top flight'. My very best wishes to Oldham, and all their fans, as the Conference is a tough, tough, league to get out of - it took us 4 seasons but, like many other clubs they can, with a bit of astute management and patience, do it. Good Luck, Oldham FC.

[Youchoose]

The supporter who has followed Oldham for 61 years is a true gem.
Great vid!

[GenialHarryGrout]

The National League is filling up with big clubs that have been badly run and it isn't surprising to see huge crowds for some league games at this level.

[vojtechkostovski]

You wanted some interesting information about where and how some clubs were founded. Since I am from the Czech Republic, I will write two things that you might not have known. Sparta Prague was founded in 1893. Believe it or not, it was not founded in Prague then. Sparta was then founded in a city called Královské Vinohrady. Today this place is already part of Prague, but back then it was an independent rich city. So the club was initially called AC Královské Vinohrady. Only a year later, a meeting of the founders took place in a pub (this time in Prague), and because club did not receive financial support in Královské Vinohrady, they decided to move the club to Prague. And since ancient Greece was popular at the time, they named the club Sparta. So Sparta Prague also got its name in the pub. And now one thing that maybe you didn't know and still a lot of people don't know. Surely you know Hajduk Split, a team from Croatia. And you probably still thought it was founded in Split. But it wasn't. It was founded by a group of Croatian students who studied at the University in Prague and had just returned to their favorite Prague pub from the Sparta - Slavia match. They were so excited by the match that they decided to found a football club, which after completing their studies in Prague started playing in their hometown of Split. So yes, Croatian Hajduk Split was founded in a Prague pub in 1911.

[TheFamousMileEnd]

I was at their last game as a league team. Tragic what's happened to them, but they're now owned by someone local who know what it means to be an Oldham fan.

[ronmac]

I am an Oldham fan and we are really struggling but there is a air of optimism. New chairman. It’s a great place to watch football and the athleticos are amazing. I live 5 minutes from where your filming.

[rsuita]

I found your videos on youtube and I really liked them. I´m brazilian and a big fan of english football, the best league in the world. So it's great to know more about football in england. My son is an oldham fan, it's sad to see the team in this situation.

[catmink]

In my first season supporting Barnsley in the 1990/91 season Oldham won what is now the Championship with what was a great team.
They genuinely were a team that you feared playing against.
They had a great following, great players, manager and that plastic pitch seemed to give them an aura of invincibility at that level too!
I couldn’t believe it when they got relegated to the conference and I found out that was actually the last promotion that Oldham had!

[ici_marmotte]

Boundary Park seems to be one of the loveliest stadiums in England if you ask me. I love this behind-the-goal stand covered by one of these good old gable roofs which represent the romanticism of British football for me. If I will come back to visit Britain again and see the Manchester area once in my lifetime, I'll have to go to Oldham for sure.

I really have a soft spot for the clubs in the lower divisions which had their best times in the early 90s when I got intrigued into football. The team of my hometown which is currently playing in the 4th tier of Germany (a semi-professional league comparable to the National League but divided into regional groups, so it's quite complicated to get out of this division), Wuppertaler SV, was a 2. Bundesliga team at this time (they also spent three years in the Bundesliga in the 70s and even made it into the UEFA Cup as as a newly promoted team, but that was a handful of years before I was born).

Please do more videos like this featuring British non-league teams which spent their best times in the 2nd or even the first tier like Oldham. You can literally smell the history at these places, and watching these collared Umbro shirts from the 90s takes me back to these good old days. I'm thinking about clubs such as Stockport County or Southend United. Best regards from Germany, loving your channel

[Paul-ebjp]

I'm a Stockport fan and we spent 11 years in non league football, we spent 6 of those years in regional football, it wasn't the disaster everyone thinks, we still had our team and we still travelled the country watching them, we met some great people, Nuneaton fans and Bradford Park Avenue fans love their clubs just as much as Man Utd fans do, it's a new journey enjoy it.

[eddisonfoncette]

Although I'm a United fan I'm absolutely shocked and saddened to find out that Oldham have fallen into the 5th tier of football. It was 32 & 28 years respectively we had those epic FA Cup Semi final battles with them but somehow it seems like it was only yesterday. Truth be told we should have lost them both and I had just about given the ghost before Mark Hughes saved the day. My driving instructor was from Oldham and we would often talk and laugh about football after the lesson . Looking at the League table, you can see how the TV money benefited the top clubs and eventually destroyed real competition.

[arrontrevor]

Oldham had a miracle escape at the end of that first PL season, staying up by winning their final three games. Sadly my team (Palace) got relegated as a result. On a more positive note, we were extremely close to getting a Palace v Oldham Cup Final in 1990. Despite what happened in 1993, I hope they can get back into the EFL soon.

[Kevdre]

As an American who's fallen in love with European football, your videos are both entertaining and educational. Thanks for all your great content!

[WhiteHartDane]

Really sad to witness Oldham's demise over the decades. My first visit to White Hart Lane was in April 1993 when I saw us bash Oldham 4-1, and that was a PL game. I do think they stayed up but went down the season after that. I hope their fortunes change soon.

[reecedorrell]

A great way of telling Oldhams' sad story, nice work. As a Southend United fan, it would be great to see a video like this around us with our severe demise over recent years. From back-to-back relegations dropping out of the football league for the first time ever, the chairman confronting the fans & having a hot dog thrown at him, winding up order after winding up order, a new stadium promised going on well over 20 years, the list goes.

[andydavies]

At 4:46 behind you at the bottom of the street were you can see newer style houses stood Pine Mill. I lived on Barton Street from 1976 till the mid nineties that faced the mill. Great video!!

[maccapacca]

I was at Oldham from 85-90 when they had the plastic pitch. It's so sad what has happened to them. I really hope they recover and get back up the football pyramid.

[tganet]

Only needed a point or so from the last 3 games to win the league in 1915. Fucked it up. OAFC - spoiling Saturdays since 1895.

Great watch. Thanks