Big towns with no major football clubs.

[sambaDTR]

Watched Jane McDonald the other night who comes from Wakefield. (Edited) OK, they have a rugby team but, for a town of over 300,000, it seems strange that they do not have a football team in the EFL.

 

[Jedi boro]

Watched Jane McDonald the other night who comes from there. OK, they have a rugby team but, for a town of over 300,000, it seems strange that they do not have a football team in the EFL.

They do it’s called Leeds

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Sunderland

 

[Rofesleg]

Bury

 

[Heam44]

Watched Jane McDonald the other night who comes from there. OK, they have a rugby team but, for a town of over 300,000, it seems strange that they do not have a football team in the EFL.

According to Wikipedia the population is only 100,000

Wakefield - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[coluka]

I thought she came from Wakefield, Isn’t that a City?

How about Lenny Henry’s Dudley?

 

[sambaDTR]

Maybe I was just lazy and clicked on the Google version!

Wakefield · Population

Population: Wakefield, United Kingdom (England), 2023 Population, Wakefield on city and population density map

population.city

 

[Mr_Fridge]

If talking without a league club... Poole, Stockport, Telford, Gloucester for example.

york!

 

[tonybiriyani]

Stockton

Gateshead

 

[Jostler]

Bath

 

[Soutra]

Watched Jane McDonald the other night who comes from there. OK, they have a rugby team but, for a town of over 300,000, it seems strange that they do not have a football team in the EFL.

Where?

 

[The_Lizards_Jumpers]

Bath

Yeah but they're a big rugby city, often to the detriment of local football teams.

My brother in law lives there (has a box at Bath rugby, even though he's from Middlesbrough ) and I was in a pub with him with Sky Sports Saturday (the thing with Jeff Stelling) on. Two blokes decked out in their full Bath Rugby gear with one saying to the other "Oh I see the pubs got the yob-ball on the TV again".

 

[Jostler]

Yeah but they're a big rugby city.

My brother in law lives there (has a box at Bath rugby, even though he's from Middlesbrough ) and I was in a pub with him with Sky Sports Saturday (the thing with Jeff Stelling on). Two blokes decked out in their full Bath Rugby gear with one saying to the other "Oh I see the pubs got the yob-ball on the TV again".

I lived in Cheltenham for a while and it's pretty much the same with Gloucester, which meant Saturdays end up with people getting back from the Gloucester game and sometimes the channel being turned over as a result. It didn't bother me as I'm a big rugby fan, but also appreciate it's not necessarily a sport watched that often around the Teesside area due to lack of pro clubs locally.

 

[Colin Warnek]

Lichfield
Stafford
Durham

 

[r00fie1]

Coalville
Loughborough
Hinckley
Burton on Trent
Stafford
Kings Lynn
Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Richmond
Ashington
Worcester
Kidderminster
Nuneaton

 

[Uptheanchors]

Stockton, but we will get there.

 

[Frozen Horse]

I think Salford was the largest city without a league club for decades. Obviously not the case anymore. I guess York is up there now.

My impression of living in West Yorkshire for a few years was that Rugby League is king there. Even in Leeds, at the height of David O'Leary's reign, I'd seem more RL than football shirts walking round the city.

Leeds, the football club, does draw a large amount of it's support from Wakefield, Castleford, Batley, Dewsbury and even York: towns and cities with no EFL club, but well-represented in RL.

 

[Mr_Fridge]

Coalville
Loughborough
Hinckley
Burton on Trent
Stafford
Kings Lynn
Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Richmond
Ashington
Worcester
Kidderminster
Nuneaton

Coalville?! Smaller than Billingham!

Cowper Bewley - another for the list.

 

[Heine]

Coalville
Loughborough
Hinckley
Burton on Trent
Stafford
Kings Lynn
Great Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Richmond
Ashington
Worcester
Kidderminster
Nuneaton

Burton Albion?

 

[bear66]

Poole
Rugby
Gloucester
Stratford-upon-Avon
Truro