Truro City FC ready to bring football home with name change and new manager

Cornwall’s biggest football club is ready to bring football home. Truro City Football Club is almost ready to return to the city and to a new ground after years of sharing in Plymouth and as far as Gloucester. Not only is its new ‘stadium’ at Langarth nearing completion, with the aim of welcoming its first game when the new 2024-25 season kicks off in August, but the club has also unveiled a new badge and nickname – and a new manager . .

The club said it had decided to update its crest and go even bolder, ditching the ‘White Tigers’ name and returning to its Cornish roots. In a post on its website and social media, the club said: “The White Tiger will no longer appear on any club crest or associated branding and this will see Truro City shed the White Tigers moniker , given the lack of historical links with the club and the Duchy as a whole.

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“Truro will resume their original nickname of Tinners, while using City, to reflect the club’s status as Cornwall’s only city club.” A spokesman for Tinners said the new updated logo made more of its hometown and Cornish heritage remain subtle.

They said: “We can unveil our new and updated crest ahead of the club’s return to Cornwall in a new playing facility for the 2024-25 season. Subtle changes have been made to the branding the club has used for the past six years.

“Truro Cathedral is now rendered in black on a white background, with St Piran’s flag placed below the town’s most prominent landmark. The main aesthetic features of the coat of arms are no longer housed in a shield and are given more importance than previously seen.

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“This new badge is the first of many exciting announcements ahead of Football Coming Home, with season tickets for next season going on sale on Friday 7 June.”

Ahead of the new season, Truro City FC have also unveiled John Askey as the club’s new first team coach on a multi-year deal. Aged 59, he has a wealth of managerial experience in both the English Football League and the top two tiers of National League football.

John, who hails from Stoke-on-Trent, enjoyed a successful playing career with Macclesfield Town and, having played for the Silkmen 679 times, is the club’s all-time leading appearance maker. After hanging up his boots in 2003, he moved into management and took over Macclesfield in the same year.

He said: “It’s a new start for the club coming to a new ground. It’s exciting times, although it will be challenging, but I’m looking forward to the project ahead. We hope everyone in Cornwall can get behind us. And we can be successful, that’s what it’s all about, turning this club into a successful one.”

John added: “Truro have done well over the last couple of years but we want to push on now and keep improving. We want conviction and as long as the fans see the players trying, that’s what we can expect. If you do that as a player, along with being strong, organized and fit, there’s no reason why we can’t compete.

“It will be tough initially but we have a great ground and the ground will be fantastic to play on so hopefully we can play some good football and entertain the fans by winning games.”

The club was promoted to the National League South at the end of the season last year. This year has proved quite a hectic season for the Tinners, with City enduring three different ‘home’ locations – none in Cornwall.

They began by sharing facilities with Plymouth Parkway before that agreement ended in February. The home games were then moved to the home of Taunton Tow, but the wet winter weather saw the team fail to play a home game in Somerset and for the last two months of the season they moved the games to Gloucester City.

Despite the nearly 400-mile round trip, not to mention playing eight home games in 14 days, the team secured their survival in Step Two of the National League System for 2024-25. And with a new home almost ready, City said its long years in limbo away from home are nearing an end.