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====Reserve team history==== Through the 1960s and 70s, Argyle's Reserve team played in the [[Plymouth and West Devon Football League|Plymouth & Devon Combination League]], with their home games at Cottage Field, next to [[Home Park]]. Argyle later entered into [[The Football Combination]], before withdrawing from the Combination in mid-season in 1981β82, for financial reasons. In 1982 the side entered the [[Western Football League]], leaving at the end of the 1992β93 season. The club had also entered a team in the [[South Western League]], but withdrew from that competition after one season in 2007. The club's reserve team, up to the end of the 2010β11 season, played in [[The Football Combination]], and confirmed their withdrawal from it on 27 June 2011, alongside 18 other [[The Football League|Football League]] clubs.<ref>[http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymouth-Argyle-set-signings-spree/story-12839461-detail/story.html "Reserve withdrawal"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630081551/http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymouth-Argyle-set-signings-spree/story-12839461-detail/story.html |date=30 June 2011 }}. Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 30 June 2011.</ref> The reserves' honours include the [[Southern Football League|Southern League Championship]] in 1922, 1926, 1929, 1934 and [[Southern Football League Cup (England)|its League Cup]] in 1933, 1934 and 1936; 1934 was the first Southern League [[Double (association football)|Double]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Edwards |first=Leigh |title=The Official Centenary History of the Southern League |publisher=Paper Plane Publishing |location=Halesowen |year=1993 |isbn=1-871872-08-1 |page=54}}</ref> For the 2015β16 season, Argyle entered a team into the [[2015β16 South West Peninsula League|South West Peninsula League Division One West]], with home matches originally planned to be played at [[Bickleigh Barracks]], before a change of plan saw them played at Seale-Hayne, dubbed 'Hodges Park' after club legend [[Kevin Hodges]], outside [[Newton Abbot]].<ref>[http://www.devonlive.com/peninsula-league-approve-plymouth-argyle-reserve/story-26908082-detail/story.html "Peninsula League approve Plymouth Argyle reserve ground switch"]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Devon Live. Retrieved 14 May 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Supporters-allowed-Argyle-home-SWPL-games/story-26672383-detail/story.html "Argyle home SWPL games at Bickleigh Barracks"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626165311/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Supporters-allowed-Argyle-home-SWPL-games/story-26672383-detail/story.html |date=26 June 2015 }}. Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 10 June 2015.</ref> After applying for promotion and finishing 2nd behind Mousehole, the reserves side were promoted to the Premier Division for the [[2016β17 South West Peninsula League|2016β17 season]]. The team again moved grounds, playing their games at the home of the [[Devon Football Association|Devon FA]], Coach Road, in [[Newton Abbot]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/plymouth-argyle-reserves-promotion-hopes-rest/story-28666293-detail/story.html|title=Plymouth Argyle reserves promotion hopes rest on finding new ground|date=3 February 2016}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and finished 6th in 2016β17. In April 2019 it was announced that Argyle Reserves were pulling out of the [[South West Peninsula League]] at the end of the season. A new development team, run by the Argyle Community Trust would enter the new [[Devon Football League]] for the 2019β20 season.<ref>{{cite web|last=Errington|first=Chris|url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/plymouth-argyle-drop-out-south-2737942|title=Plymouth Argyle to drop out of South West Peninsula League at end of season|date=9 April 2019|access-date=9 April 2019|publisher=Plymouth Live|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410154119/https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/plymouth-argyle-drop-out-south-2737942|url-status=live}}</ref>
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