Team Bath Futsal Club
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Team Bath Futsal Club regularly compete in the Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

 F.A. Futsal
Futsal
Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...

 League in southwest England
England
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. They are also taking part in the newly created FA Futsal League
FA Futsal League
The FA Futsal League began in 2008 and features 24 teams in 3 regions: North, Midlands and South. It is the highest level of futsal within England...

.

The first team squad is full of players of various nationalities as many of the players are recruited from the University of Bath
University of Bath
The University of Bath is a campus university located in Bath, United Kingdom. It received its Royal Charter in 1966....

's student community.

Current first team squad

History

Team Bath Futsal Club was founded in February 2008 when the University of Bath held open trials over two days that saw over 50 players turn out. After the two days a squad was developed of around 18 players that began to train ready to enter the newly formed FA Regional Midlands League, the highest level of Futsal in England.

Team Bath Futsal Club's first competition that they entered was the Somerset County Futsal League in March 2008. They won the league with a 100% record and qualified for the 2nd and then 3rd round of the FA Futsal cup, missing out on the National Finals losing 6–5 in a London Play off. In the same year Team Bath made its Futsal debut in the National League (Midlands Conference) finishing 3rd in the league missing out the National Play offs for Europe
Europe
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an Qualification by one place. The crowning moment of this season was a 3–2 victory over Loughborough University
Loughborough University
Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...

 in front of 400 of their own fans winning the first ever Futsal Varsity.

The club began in 2009 with an exciting pre-season playing against some of the best British Futsal Clubs including current Champions Helvecia
Helvecia
Helvecia is a town in the center-east of the , on the San Javier River . It has about 8,500 inhabitants as of the and it is the head town of the Garay Department....

. The team also qualified to the National University Futsal Finals and ended up being crowned runners up losing 5–4 to Hartpury
Hartpury
Hartpury is a rural parish of with some 270 homes and a population of about 700. It is situated about north of the city of Gloucester, England. Geographically it lies within the Leadon Vale; administratively it is part of the Forest of Dean....

in the Final. The club is currently in the middle of its National League Season getting ready for both competitions in England and in Europe over the coming months.

Records

  • Biggest win — Team Bath 17-1 Scoregasms (Bristol SBL League - 31st March 2011 - SBL School Sports Centre)
  • Biggest league win — Team Bath 8-0 Cardiff Cymru Futsal Club (28th November 2010 - University of Bath Founder's Hall)
  • Biggest defeat — Team Bath 4–18 Ipswich Wolves
  • Highest league finish — 4th FA Futsal League Midlands Conference (2008)
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