This is a season by season record, including every line up plus details of the war years. It offers pen portraits of the club's top players and profiles of York City's managers over the years and much more. It is a must read for any York City fan! This is the detailed story and comprehensive history of York City Football Club since its formation in 1922 illustrated with pictures many from archives. It looks at the early pioneering days in the Midland League and election to the Football League in 1929. It covers seventy-five years proud membership of the Football League, including two seasons in the second tier of English football in the mid 1970s. They had six promotion successes including the winning of the Fourth Division Championship in 1983-84 when they became the first Football League club to reach 100 points. In 1992-93 they made their first appearance at Wembley when they won promotion via the Play-offs. The club's many Cup giant-killing exploits over the years with appearances in the quarter and semi-finals of the FA Cup are also fully chronicled. In 1937-38 they reached the sixth round of the competition and 17 years later became the first Third Division side to reach an FA Cup semi-final replay. In the 1980s they twice reached the fifth round of the competition beating Arsenal and having four memorable tilts against Liverpool. In the 1990s in the Football League Cup they defeated Manchester United and Everton. It offers appearance records and a look back at memorable matches together with many other facts and figures.

Although they have spent nearly all their time in the lower divisions of the Football League, York City Football Club can boast a number of fine achievements and have contributed a great deal to the sporting history of the ancient city that is their home. This book illustrates City's past with a superb collection of action photographs, team shots, player portraits, programme covers and other items of memorabilia. Each decade has provided heroes and drama. In the 1930s the club reached the FA Cup sixth round and Bootham Crescent housed its biggest ever attendance of 28,123. Wartime crowds were entertained by a number of star guest players and in the mid-fifties City came so near to being the first-ever Division Three side to reach Wembley, losing to Newcastle United in an FA Cup semi-final replay. The 1960s saw an exciting promotion campaign and in 1974 City climbed to the highest point in their history when they reached the old Second Division and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea, Aston Villa and Sutherland. After a few less fruitful seasons, York won the Division Four title in some style in 1983/84 (becoming the first club to reach 100 points in a season) and they achieved another promotion in 1992/93 after a tense afternoon at Wembley. In recent years they have pulled off some remarkable giant-killing feats, including Arsenal, Manchester United and Everton among their victims in cup competitions. With detailed captions from club historian David Batters, this is an essential read for anyone with an interest in York City and will delight both young and old supporters of the team.