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= King's Academy Sixth Form FC = King's Academy Sixth Form Football Club, also known as King's FC, is an English football club based in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, who play in the Cleveland Schools Football League. Formed in 2004, they have played at the The Printerbase Park since September 2015, their Second ground since formatting in 2004. Their longest-serving home was the OneStop Arena, where they played for 11 years, from 2004 to 2015. They were one of the founding members of the Cleveland Schools League in 2004. The club's main rivals are Macmillan A and Macmillan B.

The club's highest league finish to date was first in the 2013-14 season were they only conceded one goal. The club came close to folding in 2014 after experiencing severe financial difficulties and losing their long term Manager, John Rhodes. Before the club was saved by a consortium led by then board member and current manager John Stewart. King's FC were controversially deducted three points for failing to fulfill a fixture against Macmillan B during the 2015–16 season. The club's traditional kit is blue with white detailing. The various crests throughout the club's history, the most recent of which was adopted in September 2007, incorporates the King's FC initials on a shield.

2004-2013: John Rhodes
John Rhodes was appointed due to his ability to turn around struggling club's fortunes, and turn them into a competitive outfit, that could challenge the Trinity's and MacMillan's of the division. The following seasons saw Middlesbrough Schools Football League security maintained as King's FC slowly improved and were seen as a tough side to beat when playing at the OneStop Arena. During Rhodes' reign, Kings achieved their highest league placing of 1st in the 2012–13 season. The 2012-13 season was the most successful in the club's history as they finally won a major trophy after beating Unity City Academy 5–3 in the North Riding League Cup final under manager John Rhodes. This success also ensured that King's FC would qualify for Europe – the European Schools Cup – for the first time, in which they reached the last 16. European qualification was achieved for the second consecutive year after a dramatic 1–1 away draw with Nunthorpe, thanks to a late penalty save from the King's FC goalkeeper.

John Rhodes' reign came to a sudden end, after a fantastic season, when it was mutually agreed that he would depart from the club, due to a longstanding internal argument over the club's transfer policy, and budgeting restraints. King's FC still regard John Rhodes in the highest regard, and have since dedicated the North Stand of Printerbase Park to his honour, when in 2009 the John Rhodes Stand was unveiled.

2013-present: John Stewart
John Stewart, a former English semi-pro rugby player and current vice principal at The Kings Academy became the new Kings FC manager in May 2013, signing a 10 month rolling contract. He became the first Germany-born manager at the club. King's FC finished the season seventh in the final league standings.

Stewart's reign has been tarnished by a number of off-field incidents, which have added fuel to the fire surrounding his job security. The most recent of which has been the incident regarding The Fixture Crisis, during which Stewart refused to add his signature to a letter from the King's Academy Sixth Form FC Player's and Management Association to the FA.

After a poor start to the 2015-16 season he is as close as ever to be forced to leave his post, he often talks about his frustration about the effort about some members in the squad and former Sky Sports pundit Richard Keys who is a big supporter of the club spoke about how he has lost the dressing room and lacks creativity in formations and tactics which is why the team are suffering a poor run of form. There are a lot of viable candidates who have already put their name in the hat to be the successor to the job once the final straw is pulled and he is sacked, notable ones are the likes of Mr Coates of Macmillan and also former King's FC player of the season and current coach Chris Lynch.

Supporters
Traditionally supporters come from Middlesbrough itself and towns in the immediate area. King's FC have one of the highest proportions in Britain of locally born season ticket holders at 80%, and one of the highest proportions of female fans at 26%. A survey at the start of the 2007–08 season found Kings FC supporters were the loudest set of fans in the Cleveland Schools Football League.

King's FC supporters' main rivals are Macmillan A (with whom they contest the fiercely battled Nemesis derby), MacMillan B (with whom they contest the King-Mac derby), and Redcar and Cleveland College, a fact confirmed by planetfootball.com's 2014 survey. Unity City Academy see King's FC as their biggest rivals, but King's FC supporters have not reciprocated, as they do not see Unity City Academy as a top three rival.

King's FC fans had also been praised by Cleveland Police for their behaviour in previous rounds, particularly in the light of aggravation prior to and during the games in the European Schools Cup.

The biggest fan the club has is a young man named Dom Swash, his parents from a young age said he eat, sleeps and breaths King's Academy Sixth Form FC. He is always first in the queue for away tickets and often sits in the directors box free of charge for the services he has done for the team over the years. He is due to go to Texas in 2017 because of the vast affect he has on the team. He also has a part in the pre-match rituals as he likes to hold the players hands as they come out to hear the roar of crowd of which he gets very excited for.

In 2015, Dom was nominated for the lifetime achievement award, for his consistent and thorough support. With Carl Dale being nominated for Unsung Hero due to his dedication and sacrifice to the team over the years.

Media Relations
King's FC were the first school football club in the world to launch its own TV channel – "King's TV". The first broadcasts were tied to the club's first ever major cup final appearance in 2011, a full year ahead of Macmillan's MTV, which still claims to be the first in the world. The channel was the brainchild of then NTL Marketing Director, Peter Wilcock. Its programmes were not 'live' initially but were pre-recorded and hosted by local radio/TV broadcaster & King's fan, Dom Swash. King's TV went on to claim another 'first' when in August 2009 it become the first English school football club to broadcast time-delayed full-match footage of their league games on their own channel. King's TV ran through NTL cable television until July 2005. The club now show match highlights through a subscription-based scheme on their official website. Kings Academy Sixth Form FC's programme costs £2 per game and is a thrilling read. Dom Swash is the world leading collector of the programme as he holds every copy.

The club also has an Instagram page in the name of "@kingsacademysixthformfc" which has all news relating to the clubs progress. It has over 200 followers which is the biggest following of any college football team in the world.

Texas Tour
The King's FC outfit regularly qualify for the bi-annual tournament in the USA called the Texas cup. It is at the end of the season and recurs on the odd number of years. It is said how the way the teams are set up and the climate in south-west USA suits the way the teams play and often they put the best performances in across the pond. Due to the financial trouble that the Kings Academy Sixth Form FC have gone through in the past few years it is required that the players need to pay for the trip themselves.

Community
After formation in 2005, King's FC's first ten years of football were played at The King's Academy in Coulby Newham.

With the club's growing size, and qualification to the European Football League League, they had to move to a new ground in 2015, Printerbase Park. It was designed by the A-Level Product Design class of 2015 and would be the club's home for the foreseeable future.

After John Rhodes decided to leave the managerial role he still kept a foot in the door with the club in the form of chairman, owner and major investor. Before he left he said he would fund a brand new training complex in the hope it would push the King's Academy Sixth Form FC another level. It was a big project that took 6 weeks to build fitted with state of the arts floodlights, new fitted turf, new goals and new lines. It is said that the team now enjoy training a lot more and it is a major driving force of why players want to make the trip up North to join the club.

Finances
In 2010, Forbes valued King's Academy Sixth Form FC worth to be around £10,000, ranking them second after Nunthorpe, based on figures from the 2008–09 season. According to Deloitte, King's FC had a recorded revenue of £100 in the same period, ranking second to Trinity, who generated £115 in revenue. In 2013, Forbes magazine ranked Kings FC the third most valuable college sports team in the world, behind Conyers and Teesside High.

Along with Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Osasuna and Barcelona, King's FC is organised as a registered association. Unlike a limited company, it is not possible to purchase shares in the club, but only membership.

An audit by Deloitte in July 2010 showed that King's Academy Sixth Form FC had a net debt of £3000, 58% of net worth as valued by Forbes.

For 2011, King's FC gross debt stands at around £2500 and the net debt is at £2150. King's FC was found to have the highest average salary per player of all college sports teams in the world, just ahead of rival Outwood.

Player's and Management Association
In 2015, in reaction to the Fixture Crisis, the King's Academy Sixth Form FC Player's and Management Association was formed.

This was the second attempt to organise a union of professional footballers in the Middlesbrough Schools Football League, after the Association Footballers' Union (the "AFU"), formed in 2007, had been dissolved in 2008.

It is a member of the Institute of Professional Sport and FIFPro – the confederation of international football players' unions. Many of the key personnel within the PFA are also professionals, including Director of Football Trib Gosain and Chief Financial Officer James Craven.

The King's Academy Sixth Form FC Players and Management Association works to reduce inequalities between the corporate side of football, and grassroots development, aiming to build bridges between those who are underrepresented and those who are in positions of influence.

Following the Fixture Crisis of 2015, The Player's and Management Association acted in the interests of all those detrimentally affected and took action, writing to Greg Dyke, the head of the FA, to take immediate action to resolve this issue.

John Rhodes Centre of Excellence
The John Rhodes Centre of Excellence, is the name of The King's Academy Sixth Form FC football training facilities, originally located near the One-Stop Arena in the Coulby Newham district of Middlesbrough, and is often used to generically describe the King's FC youth academy. The youth academy of the King's Academy Sixth Form FC holds more than 300 young players, and has been praised since 2006 as one of the best in the world, being a significant factor in King's FC European and domestic success as well as the Clevelands County team's success at the 2010 District Cup. In 2010, John Rhodes Centre of Excellence achieved a record breaking honour becoming the first youth academy to have trained all three finalists for the Cleveland Schools d'Or in one same year, with Mitchel Brady, Alex Dixon and Dom Swash.

The original building itself was an ancient country residence built in 2006, and once Printerbase Park was inaugurated in 2015, the building was remodelled and extended for use as the club's social headquarters. With the gradual expansion of the club, the building became too small for headquarters, and on 2 September 2015, John Rhodes Centre of Excellence was converted into a dormitory for young players from outside of the catchment of the club.