320827	First Bootham Crescent game Midland League York 2 Bradford City 4 (sign of the times, admission reduced to 3 d (just over one pence) for Midland League games). It cost £6,000 to construct the ground.
320831	Official opening of Bootham Crescent with a Third Division North game against Stockport County. The club president, Sir John Hunt, formally opened the ground by cutting a chocolate and cream coloured ribbon - the new colours of the club. Also in attendance were the Sheriff of York (Mr Arnold Rowntree), Mr. Roger Lumley MP, Mr. Arnold Kingscott, treasurer of the Football Association, and other personalities in the football world. The attendance was 8,106 with receipts of nearly £400 and the result was a 2-2 draw. City were represented by Duckworth,Archibald, Johnson, G Maskill, Harris, Bolton, Williams, Fenoughty, Baines, McDonald, Mitchell. Tom Mitchell scored first goal and Reg Baines followed with a penalty to earn a 2-2 draw.
320917	Reg Baines is the first player to score a hat trick at Bootham Crescent.
321126	Ground record crowd see City lose 1-3 to Scarborough in an FA Cup tie.
330422	New record attendance of 8,673 for a league game see City go down 1-2 against eventual champions Hull.
330903	City slump to a record Bootham Crescent defeat when losing 2-6 to Rochdale in front of 4,363.
350112	New record ground attendance of 13,612 see City lose 0-1 to Derby in the FA Cup.
350800	1934/5 Reserves switch to Yorkshire League to cut expenses as concerns are raised over the costs involved in move to Bootham Crescent. Plans to widen approach road to Bootham Crescent would greatly facilitate spectators coming and going from ground. Chairman Arthur Brown publicly thanks Supporters Club having already raised 950 out of 1500 pounds required to provide Popular Stand.
351116	City beat Mansfield 7-5 in the highest goals aggregate game seen at Bootham Crescent.
360800	Opening of current social club beneath Main Stand. Due to financial difficulties, City asked for a loan to fund it. Only Yorkshire Clubs Brewery offer financial support. The brewery removed old wooden hut, a legacy of the cricket ground and rebuilt in their own yard. The work took 2 years to complete and it was furnished with second hand cinema seats. Its believed to no longer exist.
360919	League record attendance of 10,629 see City's good start to season ended by Chester in 0-2 defeat.
370317	Only 1,600 see City beat Hartlepools United 5-0 in a midweek afternoon game in the new fangled Third Division North Cup, am early forerunner of The Autoglass Cup. .
370800	37/8 Supporters Club (membership 1,489) complete Popular Stand at cost of £1,500. Supporters Club "Shilling Fund" provide much funding, building starts at £500 when Dick Leckenby, A YCFC director, provides the deeds to his home as collateral to allow building work to start. Supporters Club members barrow loads of rubbish to form raised base of Popular Stand.
380108	Ground record attendance of 13,917 see City beat Coventry 3-2 in FA Cup Round 3 replay.
380122	Ground record attendance of 18,795 see Reg Baines score a hat trick as City beat West Bromwich Albion 3-2 in Round 4 of the FA Cup.
380212	Ground record attendance of 23,860 see City beat Middlesbrough 1-0 in FA Cup Round 5 thanks to a Peter Spooner goal.
380305	Ground record attendance of 28,123 see City draw 0-0 with Huddersfield in FA Cup Round 6. It was the fourth new record in under 2 months and stands to this day. . Today's capacity is just one third of the all time record. Seating of The Popular Stand, the lose of The Enclosure and today's onerous health and safety regulations account for the shortfall. Over 58,000 see City lose the replay at Leeds Road
390114	City's all time worst home defeat is witnessed by 3826 as Rochdale win 7-0.
400000	WW2 During the war the tunnel at the back of the Popular Stand was used as an air raid shelters for pupils and staff of the nearby Shipton Street School. The ground suffered slight damage after the air raid on York in April 1942. Houses at the Shipton Street end were bombed.
400000	War time bomb falls on Shipton Street end of ground
410201	York 7 Sheffield Wednesday 0. 2500 see Bert Brenen score 4 in City's win a war time FA Cup.
410913	More high scoring as City beat Middlesbrough 9-5. Local born scores 4 and Charlton's Bert 'Sailor' Brown also scores in front of a 3,600 crowd. At the time City's close proximity to army barracks enabled them to field many famous guest players, including several internationals.
420228	5,176 see City beat Leeds 8-1.
421017	A representative match was staged in which a Football League XI defeated the Northern Command 9-2, watched by 5,500. After the match, Mr. Fred Howarth, the secretary of the Football League, wrote the following letter to the club: "May I take this opportunity, on behalf of the League, of congratulating your club, directors and officials alike, for the excellence of the arrangements. You will appreciate that always in representative matches our chief concern is the smoothness of the arrangements. You did your part splendidly. The League thanks you for staging the match, which was a complete success, both from the entertainment side and from the financial side. They are grateful for the kindly attention of your directors and will remember with pleasure their first official visit to your lovely city."
430123	First live radio broadcast from Bootham Crescent as City run out convincing 4-0 winners over Sunderland.
430424	City's war time record crowd of 16350 see City crash out of the FA Cup when they can only draw 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday in the semi final second leg.
441028	City 10 Gateshead 2 in front of 1,500.
450427	2,106 see City's lose their last home war time game 1-2 against Hartlepools United. A few weeks earlier over 10,000 had seen City bow out of the FA Cup against Sheffield Wednesday when losing 1-6.
460000	Post WW2. In the early post-war period, considerable improvements were made to the ground. Deeper drainage was completed, the Bootham Crescent end banking was concreted and tannoy equipment was installed.
461019	Post war boom in soccer attendances. City attract new record attendance for a league game when 15,485 see Doncaster win 4-1. That season 6 of City's league games attracted 5 figure attendances, the highest being 22,249 for the game at Hull.
470830	Alf Patrick becomes the first City player ever to score 4 goals in a game.
480900	9/48 At the shareholders' annual meeting, it was announced that the club had purchased the Bootham Crescent ground which had been on lease since 1932. The chairman, Mr. W.H. Sessions, stated that an agreement had been signed and felt that the club now owned one of the best grounds in the Third Division. The balance sheet revealed that the ground was bought for £4,075 and the buildings, which cost £7,444, had been depreciated so that the whole ground and equipment was listed at £7,204 at current value in 1949. To celebrate the purchase of the ground, a dinner was held at the Royal Station Hotel at which the deeds were handed to the chairman. Among those present were past and present directors and many enthusiasts who had worked over the years for the club. Also in attendance was the club's first captain back in 1922, Billy Smith.
481120	York City 6 Rotherham 1, filmed by Coal Board for a documentary and watched by a new home record league gate of 19,216
481128	Alf Patrick becomes the first City player ever to score 5 goals in a game.
490000	Late 40s / Early 50s Concreting was completed to the terracing in the Popular Stand - thanks to the efforts of the Supporters' Club - and the Shipton Street end.
490423	City set all time record attendance for a league game when 21,010 see City go down 1-3 to Hull. 3 weeks earlier, over 40,000 had seen City win 3-2 at Hull.
520500	England met Ireland in the first Schoolboy international to be played at Bootham Crescent. The attendance was 16,000 and England, who won 5-0 and were captained by Wilf McGuinness, who was later to manage York City.
540800	Season starts with over 23,000 through the turnstiles for the first 2 home games of the season. Did they know something was about to happen as Arthur Bottom scored a hat trick on his debut on the first day of the season.
541225	Last Xmas day football at Bootham Crescent (v Mansfield)
550219	21,000 see City's historic 3-1 win over Spurs in Round 5 of the FA Cup. The game was one of 5 successive games to attract attendances of over 10,000 to Bootham Crescent.
550600	Summer 1955. Major work was carried to extend the Main Stand towards Shipton Street. Look closely and to this day you will spot the join where the last quarter was added to The Main Stand. Profits from the FA Cup run, together with a Stand Extension Fund, helped in this project.
560128	22,000 see City draw 0-0 with Sunderland in the FA Cup Round 4. City lose replay.
560600	The following year a concrete wall was built at the St Olave's Road (Bootham Crescent) end. The project cost more than £3,000 had a two-fold purpose - a safety precaution and a support for additional banking and terracing. The FA Cup tie in 1955 against Tottenham Hotspur had been restricted to a 21,000 capacity by the police, but with the improvements made the limit had risen to 23,600 when Bolton Wanderers provided the opposition in January 1958.
570202	Arthur Bottom scores 4 times as City record their biggest ever when beating Southport 9-1 in front of 8,801 at Bootham Crescent.
580125	23,600 see City draw 0-0 with Bolton in the FA Cup Round 4. City lose replay.
580800	Bryan Foster joined the groundstaff. He duly became head groundsman and, apart from a period 1971 to 1975 when he held similar appointments at Bury and then Preston, he has served the club until his untimely death. For many years the Bootham Crescent pitch has had an excellent playing surface and in recognition of his long and outstanding service, Bryan was presented with a gold watch from the directors in March 1988.
581226	Highest home attendance of season (10,382) see City beat Barrow 1-0 as City gain first ever promotion.
590600	Summer 1959 Floodlights (24 bulbs per pylon) were installed at the ground, at the cost of £14,500, a substantial sum of which was raised by the Auxiliary Club. The installation was based on a system of lighting developed by the General Electric Company Ltd, who designed and supervised the project. Messrs Shepherds of York were responsible for the concrete bases and erection of the four 100 feet towers. The electrical sub-contractors were Messrs F.H. Wheeler of Scunthorpe.
591028	Official opening of floodlights. City lose 2-8 in friendly against Newcastle in front of a 9,414 crowd
600409	Lowest Bootham Crescent crowd of the season (4,751 against Brentford) as City go straight back down to Division 4. The home FA Cup tie against Barrow attracted 7,631. Away attendances dipped as low as 925 at Accrington and 2,055 at Bournemouth. Incidentally City's FA Cup tie at Bournemouth attracted 14,749.
601010	The League Cup starts. City's first game results in a 0-1 home defeat by Blackburn in front of 10,933.
610600	St Olave's Road end. Extend terrace, now all concrete
620922	City's poor start to the season continues in front of a record low Bootham Crescent attendance of 2,986.
621208	Another low of 2,511 see City draw with Barrow.
630308	City's league fixtures resume after severe winter weather caused chaos to the fixtures. 4,083 see City beat Newport. The previous home game on December 15 saw City beat Stockport in front of 2,610. During the barren spell 11,722 saw City go down 0-5 at Southampton in an FA Cup tie.
631123	Only 23,68 see City lose to Aldershot.
631221	Was Christmas shopping to blame as the attendance plunges to only 1,653 as City lose 0-2 to Oxford.
650326	13,444 see Weddle score a hat trick in the 4-0 win over Tranmere.
650424	2 Paul Aimson goals help City to a 4-0 win over Halifax in the last game of the promotion winning season.
660312	19,372 see City lose 1-2 against Hull. The lowest home crowd of the season being 2,702 against Brentford just 2 weeks later.
670325	Lowest home league crowd (1,912) of the season see City beat Luton 5-1.
680000	Supporters Club open their programme shop behind terrace of Grovesnor Road end.
680111	14,531 see City and Middlesbrough draw replayed FA Cup tie.
680200	First major neutral match at Bootham Crescent when the Tigers played Middlesbrough in a FA Cup Round 3 second replay. Boro won 1-0 in front of 16,524.
680600	New floodlights erected, remain until 1995
690000	Referee drops dead during a game against Halifax
690104	Gordon Banks helps to draw 11129 to see Stoke win an FA Cup tie 2-0.
700000	Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, City were regularly (well once a season, more in 1974-6) featured as the main match on Yorkshire TV's Sunday afternoon football programme. A temporary TV gantry was always erected on top of The Popular Stand and necessitated the commentator (John Helm, Keith Macklin et al) undertaking a perilous, horizontal climb up a ladder.
700000	The very early 1970s saw the ability to change ends before the game and at half time to be behind the goal City were attacking ended with the closure of the tunnel beneath The Popular Stand.
701219	Last home game of year attracts only 3,102 as mid table City beat Crewe 1-0.
710123	13,775 see City score 2 late goals to earn 3-3 draw with Division 1 high flyers Southampon.
710419	City's 16 game unbeaten league run ends in front of 14,321 as Oldham win 1-0 in thrilling clash between 2 already promoted sides. There had been a late change of referee amid fears of possible threats of trouble from Leeds United supporters protesting against referee Ray Tinker's controversial decisions in Leeds v WBA game at Elland Road 2 days earlier that cost them the championship.
710424	5 days later and only 5,021 turn up to see City beat Scunthorpe 2-0 in pouring rain. Scunthorpe get rid of Kevin Keegan that summer after his missed a penalty in his last appearance for Scunthorpe.
710908	Highest crowd (10,700) of season see City draw a League Cup game 2-2 with a Middlesbrough side including World Cup hero Nobby Stiles.
730900	Rock N Roll revival concert; legend has it that Shakin Stevens was on the bill.
731121	2pm, Wednesday afternoon kick off against Manchester City in Round 4 of The League Cup. Schools and factories report high absenteeism as energy saving regulations prohibit the use of floodlights during the "3 Day Working Week" necessitated by the miners strike. 15360 see a 0-0 draw. Maine Road star, Rodney Marsh, runs out onto the pitch minus his shorts.
740210	Energy saving regulations mean a Sunday afternoon home fixture against Watford. A higher than normal 7,638 crowd see a 2-2 draw. The previous home games had drawn 4,699 and 3,727 crowds. Grimsby had attracted 5,890 on Boxing Day.
740224	Another Sunday fixture. Above average 7,149 see City beat Cambridge 2-0.
740306	10,392 see City beat promotion rivals Bournemouth by 4-1.
740316	City beat high flying Bristol Rovers 2-1 in a controversial game in front of the television cameras.
740427	City's home season ends with a 1-1 draw with Oldham in front of 15,583 and television cameras. Players do a lap of honour chased around the pitch by the majority of the jubilant fans to celebrate City's only ever entry into Division 2.
740600	Ground improvements in readiness for our first campaign outside the bottom 2 divisions. They included the installation of seats in The Popular Stand, they were purchased second hand from Manchester City (increasing the seating capacity to 2,762) and the car park was first tarmaced (previously it was a pot holed cinder affair).
740817	Barry Lyons scores City's first ever Division 2 goal in front of 9,396 against Aston Villa.
740827	Lowest crowd (6,321) of the season see City's first ever Division 2 win. 1-0 against Cardiff.
741116	City beat Norwich 1-0 in font of Yorkshire TV cameras. Unfortunately, in those days and with our floodlights, the film was of such poor quality that only first half highlights could be shown on YTV (and then in black and white only rather than colour).
741221	City's Division 2 record crowd of 15,314 see City lose (probably the most one sided) 1-0 to Manchester United. At the time, United's reputation suffered from the exploits of some of its supporters. Many York people stayed away from the match. BBC TV cameras were scheduled to cover the game but decided not to in view of the lack of quality floodlights. 46,802 saw the return game at Old Trafford at Easter. Over 7,000 visiting supporters (John Byrne included) trudge / march / rampage through the car park at the height o the hooligan era. Was this the day the City's directors decided that The Shipton Street rather than The Grovsenor Road end should be for home supporters?
750107	15362 see City lose 1-3 to Arsenal, after extra time, in an FA Cup replay.
750600	New floodlights installed on the then existing pylons, each with 30 (more powerful) bulbs rather than the previous 24.
750910	Liverpool's first visit to results in a lucky 1-0 win in the League Cup.
760224	City's Division 2 low crowd of 2,857see a 0-2 defeat at the hands of Orient.
760814	Shipton Street now offically deemed to be the home end.
770507	Only 1,748 see the last home game of the season, a 1-1 draw with Reading, as City go straight down to Division 4. It was one of three home games to attract attendances below 2,000.
770927	All time low crowd of 1,551 see City beat Reading 2-0.
771203	New low of 1284 see City draw 0-0 with Torquay. The season saw 12 home league crowds below 2,000.
781216	Highest gate of season see City beat non league Scarborough 3-0 in an FA Cup tie.
800000	Early 1980s. Cracks appeared in the concrete wall which had been built in 1956 at the back of the Bootham Crescent end. The rear f the terracing was cordoned off and the capacity of the ground was reduced to under 13,500, less than half the attendance record set in 1938.
800000	198x clock in memory to young supporter erected
800801	1980. Floodlights were updated and improved at a cost of £20,000. They were officially switched on by former Wolves player and Northern Ireland international, Derek Dougan, prior to a friendly game against Grimsby Town on 1 August. The referee for this game was Keith Usher, who was later to become club secretary.
810100	Early 1981. Gymnasium was built at the Bootham Crescent end for £50,000. To help towards this City received £15,000 from the Sports Council and £20,000 from the Football League Improvement Trust.
810505	Even a John Byrne goal cannot enliven an all time low crowd of 1,167 in a 1-2 defeat by Northampton on the last day of the season.
820828	1,737 see Denis Smith's first game as City Manager. A 0-0 draw with Torquay.
821000	Firework display to celebrate the centenary of the Yorkshire Evening Press.
830123	7,097 Sunday crowd, better only once during the season, see City come from behind to beat Scunthorpe 2-1.
830419	Highest crowd of the season see a John Byrne goal beat high flying Hull 1-0. After match violence from the Hull supporters mars the evening.
830600	Improvements were made to the administration facilities. New offices for the manager, secretary, match-day and lottery manager were built together with a vice presidents' lounge. Jack Dunnett, chairman of the Football League, officially opened the lounge prior to a game against Wrexham in November 1983.
830903	A new season and only 2,772 turn up to see City beat Rochdale 2-0 at the start of the championship winning season.
840221	5,837 see City's first game in the new Associate Members Cup. A 1-2 defeat by Hull.
840408	11,297 Sunday crowd, the highest of the season, see a 1-1 draw with second placed Doncaster.
840420	Good Friday and City make certain of promotion with a 4-1 win over Halifax in front of 7,120.
840428	6,063 turn up to see City beat Hartlepool 2-0 to clinch the championship. It was the first ever instance of the players using the directors box after the game to acknowledge the crowd.
840507	The last home game of the season. 8,026 see City beat Bury 3-0. Roger Jones is presented with the trophy in the directors box by Ian Jones, a member of the Football League Management committee after the game.
841103	The faithful 2,921 are treated to an inspired Keith Walwyn performance in a 7-1 win over Gillingham in pouring rain.
850126	Millions see City beat Arsenal 1-0 on Match Of The Day as a mobile crane is used for the first time at Bootham Crescent to provide the main TV camera position. Previously a temporary television position had been erected on top of the Popular Stand from which all the TV staff, including the commentator had had to climb up to.
850202	10,442 see City beat Wigan 2-0. The main attraction being the issue of vouchers to buy tickets for the forthcoming FA Cup tie with Liverpool.
850216	Another frozen pitch and City draw 1-1 with Liverpool. 13,485 see the game. Security fencing was erected for the first time at the ground.
850317	A large Bradford City contingent amongst the 10,442 crowd sees their heroes maintain their promotion push with a 2-1 win. The last ever 5 figure attendance for a league game at Bootham Crescent.
850600	1985 During the successful seasons of 1983-4 and 1984-5 many problems had arisen in handling big crowds. This was largely due to the problem of the ground having only two of its four sides available for entry and exit plus the home supporters funnelling through the car-park to the Shipton Street end. Extensive improvements at a cost of approximately £100,000 were made and eight new turnstiles were installed at that end. At the same time, other ground improvements were made, including dressing-rooms refurbishment incorporating new baths and showers, new referee's changing room, physiotherapist's treatment room, improved police control room and new Shipton Street end toilets.
860000	1986-7. Hospitality boxes were built into the Main Stand. Video equipment was installed inside the ground and crash-barriers strengthened. Ground safety requirements were met and in September 1989 it was announced that the ground capacity had been increased to 14,628.
860215	12,752 see Liverpool happy to go back to Anfield with a 1-1 draw after another FA Cup Round 5 game.
870411	Lowest crowd of the season. Only 2,202 see City beat Newport 3-0.
870509	Denis Smith's last game as City manager. A Martin Butler goal earns a 1-1 draw with Notts County and a one year reprieve from Division 4.
871006	Leeds attract 6,059 to Bootham Crescent for a League Cup tie and return home 4-0 victors.
871017	Attendance dips below 2,000, to 1,984, for the 2-2 draw with Aldershot. Only 1,932 see City lose 1-2 to Rotherham 3 days later.
871218	Season low of 1,801 see a 1-1 draw with Brentford.
880209	Yorkshire Evening Press run story on plans to "roof the Shippo".
880304	Public meeting votes to go ahead with plan to "roof the Shippo".
880404	3,215 see City lose 0-2 to Grimsby on Easter Monday. In the Social Club after the game a committee is elected to raise the money to build the roof.
880600	Summer 1988 American football game as part of the York festival.
881203	Season low of 1,698 see City beat Hereford 4-1.
890100	January 1989. Rugby League football was staged for the first time at Bootham Crescent. York RLFC entertained Leeds and the attendance was 11,347. For the record Leeds won 28-9.
890920	Season high of 4,526 see Southampton win a League Cup game 1-0.
900908	David Longhurst dies on the pitch just before half time in the game against Lincoln.
910824	David Longhurst Stand sees league action for the first time against Gilingham
921100	Family Stand opens (v Barnet)
930100	Family Room opens (v Darlington)
950200	Drainage collapses
950500	New drainage pipes laid (main drain across the pitch at Shipton St end and 14 feeder pipes, length of the pitch. Cost about £11,000 (Philliskirk & Sons, Green Hammerton
950600	New lights to cost £122,000, new pylons 27.5 metres high, 500 lux. (Thorvill Electricals, Staffordshire, Old lights (30m high) destined for York RI
050423	Hundreds of fans invade pitch at the end of the first season back in non league football to celebrate 4-0 win over Farnborough and hopefully the start of a glorious new era under Billy McEwan.