Baildon Trinity Athletic

Baildon Trinity Athletic’s history has its origin in one of Bradford’s most famous clubs of the 60’s and 70’s. The late Jack Rose, who played a big part in the Junior Floodlight League at Myra Shay, formed Trinity Athletic in 1965. Trinity moved into Saturday afternoon soccer with success in the Red Triangle League and later the West Riding County Amateur League. There they had Premier success as well as winning the Bradford & District Saturday Cup. They moved into Sunday football as founder members of the Bradford Sunday Alliance League. Trinity had reached division 1B by 1990-91 but suffered a big setback when they were relegated to division 2A after a disastrous 1991-92 season when they never won a match. The Saturday club had become established in Baildon and the Sunday team followed suit. Slowly the club was rebuilt in division 2A and after finishing third in 1997-1998 they moved up to division 1A under the name of Bay Horse FC. Horse finished 11th in 1998-1999 and change their name to Baildon Trinity Athletic. It certainly did little for their fortunes as they finished bottom in 1999-2000 when reverting to their old name. It was a campaign to forget. They won two games and conceded 101 goals. Last season was much better for Trinity as they recorded five wins but they still finished in 12th place. Just as in the previous two seasons they had to rely on the withdrawal of others to guarantee survival. This time the resignation of Wilson’s Transport gave them a stay of execution for another season in division 1A. They are anxious to show an improvement in the new campaign.