Truro City Tickets
About Truro City
Truro City Football Club is an embodiment of determination and community pride. Founded in 1889, the club started in the Plymouth & District League. For over a century, Truro City has been Cornwall's top football ambassador, reflected with great vibrance by the club's supporters.
Truro City History and Achievements
The club's history is a history of ambition morphing out of geographical limitation. After establishing a foothold in local competition, the Terras — which, when translated into Cornish, means land or earth — moved into the Cornwall Senior League just before World War II. The watershed moment came in 2015 when Truro City became the first club in Cornwall to ascend to the National League. Their achievement resonated far beyond the confines of a football pitch because it helped project Cornwall onto a national stage and demonstrated the viability of what had long been dismissed as a quixotic ambition: the dream that Cornwall could hold its own in the competitive upper reaches of the English game.
"I think what we did in the autumn of 2015 — that achievement — puts down a marker for Cornwall," says John Crabbe, the team secretary. "We were the first football club in Cornwall to get to the National League level." The win was not only a payback for the long years of struggle and near-misses but also a vindication of the vision of Kevin Heaney, who had taken over as club chairman back in 2004.
Truro City Key Players
The current squad is a harmonious mixture of local talent and seasoned professionals. Both groups are essential ingredients for the club's 21st-century narrative.
Aidan Stone, the team's number one goalkeeper, has anchored the defense as the stabilizing figure. Calm under pressure, he has become the foundation for the team's resiliency and has done so while making few mistakes in recent years.
Jack Crago, nominally the team's number one threat to score at the forward position, has done little to disprove that opinion in recent contests. He has shown time and time again that scoring is his specialty, often in breathless situations when the team is desperate for a lead.
The number of locally raised players in these main roles demonstrates that the club values the Cornish dream and local talent development.