Club History
Warlingham F.C - A Brief History
Warlingham F.C was founded in 1896 and is affiliated to the Surrey F.A. The clubs base is at Church Lane, Warlingham where they moved in the early twenties. At this time they amalgamated with Warlingham C.C to form Warlingham Sports Club.
In the early years the team played at various local venues including Blanchman's field (now a nature reserve), the School field just past the green, and what are now allotments off Hillbury Road. The current Church Lane site was left to the people of Warlingham for the pursuit of sport and is now used to support our 13 junior teams and our "A", "B", and 2 Veterans teams.
For the coming season 2011-2012 we have again entered into a ground sharing agreement with Ryman South team Whyteleafe having spent an enjoyable year there last season. This allows us to retain our position in the Combined Counties league and pursue promotion to the CCL premier division. We will continue to look for alternative local sites to build our own facility to meet the ever increasing demands of the Football Association.
Our reserve team and new "C" team will play at Verdayne (Hamsey Green Playing Field), which was leased, from Tandridge District Council in March 2004 specifically to allow us to gain promotion to the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties league.
In our long history we have gained virtually every honour available in Intermediate football and also achieved success at the next level having won the Combined Counties Div 1 title in season 05/06 and the Reserve section in both 04/05 and 06/07. Last season we entered the FA Vase for the first time and embarked on another exciting chapter in our history, reaching the 2nd round proper and finally losing 1-0 to Reading Town F.C. This year we will make history again with our first entry into the FA Cup.
In September 2008 we completed work on a new floodlit Astro training facility which has improved what we can offer our members in both our adult and colts sections.
Season 10/11 was a disappointing year for our adult teams with them all closing the year in strong positions in their respective leagues and then falling away in the New Year.
Our Colts section continues to go from strength to strength and we are beginning to see the very real benefit of players coming through into the senior teams. Last year we ran 13 Colts teams and the U11's B won the Tandridge South Division. The U12's A won the Tandridge League Cup. The U13's won the Epsom Premier Division and the U14's won the Epsom League Division 1 with the U15's gaining promotion to the Epsom League Division 1. Our Soccer School has also proved successful and has already created new teams in Mini Soccer for the Colts section.
We ran 6 senior teams during season 2010-11 and will add another team for 2011-2012. With our Colts section running 13 teams we will start the season bigger than we have ever been in our history - again!
Warlingham F.C. is a "community" club providing football for local people from age 4 through to Veterans and look forward to the future with excitement and determination as we strive for further success across all our teams.
This season we have been working hard to attain the FA’s Charter Standard accreditation. This was achieved in December 2011. A special thank you goes out to Vice Chairman, Paul Antino and the wider management team who worked so hard to achieve this.
Warlingham F.C was founded in 1896 and is affiliated to the Surrey F.A. The clubs base is at Church Lane, Warlingham where they moved in the early twenties. At this time they amalgamated with Warlingham C.C to form Warlingham Sports Club.
In the early years the team played at various local venues including Blanchman's field (now a nature reserve), the School field just past the green, and what are now allotments off Hillbury Road. The current Church Lane site was left to the people of Warlingham for the pursuit of sport and is now used to support our 13 junior teams and our "A", "B", and 2 Veterans teams.
For the coming season 2011-2012 we have again entered into a ground sharing agreement with Ryman South team Whyteleafe having spent an enjoyable year there last season. This allows us to retain our position in the Combined Counties league and pursue promotion to the CCL premier division. We will continue to look for alternative local sites to build our own facility to meet the ever increasing demands of the Football Association.
Our reserve team and new "C" team will play at Verdayne (Hamsey Green Playing Field), which was leased, from Tandridge District Council in March 2004 specifically to allow us to gain promotion to the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties league.
In our long history we have gained virtually every honour available in Intermediate football and also achieved success at the next level having won the Combined Counties Div 1 title in season 05/06 and the Reserve section in both 04/05 and 06/07. Last season we entered the FA Vase for the first time and embarked on another exciting chapter in our history, reaching the 2nd round proper and finally losing 1-0 to Reading Town F.C. This year we will make history again with our first entry into the FA Cup.
In September 2008 we completed work on a new floodlit Astro training facility which has improved what we can offer our members in both our adult and colts sections.
Season 10/11 was a disappointing year for our adult teams with them all closing the year in strong positions in their respective leagues and then falling away in the New Year.
Our Colts section continues to go from strength to strength and we are beginning to see the very real benefit of players coming through into the senior teams. Last year we ran 13 Colts teams and the U11's B won the Tandridge South Division. The U12's A won the Tandridge League Cup. The U13's won the Epsom Premier Division and the U14's won the Epsom League Division 1 with the U15's gaining promotion to the Epsom League Division 1. Our Soccer School has also proved successful and has already created new teams in Mini Soccer for the Colts section.
We ran 6 senior teams during season 2010-11 and will add another team for 2011-2012. With our Colts section running 13 teams we will start the season bigger than we have ever been in our history - again!
Warlingham F.C. is a "community" club providing football for local people from age 4 through to Veterans and look forward to the future with excitement and determination as we strive for further success across all our teams.
This season we have been working hard to attain the FA’s Charter Standard accreditation. This was achieved in December 2011. A special thank you goes out to Vice Chairman, Paul Antino and the wider management team who worked so hard to achieve this.
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