Bristol City Football Club - 9ct gold and enamel Gloucestershire Football Association Senior Challenge Cup Winners 1972-1973 Medal, awarded to club legend Tom Ritchie, hallmarked Birmingham, 1972, 26mm diameter, 16.3g gross approx, plus two Bristol City F. C. football programmes, vs. Middlesbrough 16th September 1972 and vs. Bristol Rovers 29th April 1974 (3)

Awarded to Thomas Gibb ('Tom') Ritchie, Bristol City F. C. club legend.

The Senior Challenge Cup was initiated in 1887 as the 'Gloucestershire Cup' as a knockout competition by the Gloucestershire Football Association, but from 1909 became an annual fixture between Bristol City and Bristol Rovers foot ball clubs.
The 1973 fixture was held on 1st May, with City triumphing 5-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw. Tom Richie was one of the successful penalty takers.

Tom Ritchie (b. 1952) played for City from 1969 to 1981, returning for a second spell on a free transfer 1982-84, and scored 102 goals for the club in his 414 appearances (second at the time behind John Atyeo). He is one of the few players to play for the club in all four divisions, including promotion to the top flight (the old First Division) in 1976, and winning the Anglo-Scottish Cup vs St. Mirren in the 1977-78 season, the opponents managed at the time by a relatively unknown Alex Ferguson.

The match between Bristol City and Bristol Rovers was played at Eastville on 1st May 1973, and after a 2-2 draw the match went to penalties where Bristol City triumphed 5-3.