Histon F.C.
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| Full name | Histon Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Stutes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1904 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Glassworld Stadium, Impington |
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| Capacity | 3,009
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| Chairman | Gareth Baldwin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Steve Fallon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Conference South | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | Conference South, 5th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Histon Football Club are an English football team based in the village of Impington, approximately 5km north of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. They play in the Conference South league, where they are currently the most northerly football club. They are nicknamed "The Stutes", thought to originate from the club's previous name Histon Institute and they play their home matches at the Glassworld Stadium, Bridge Road in Impington. Their current manager is Steve Fallon.
Their reserve team are unusual in playing at a high level of the National League System. They joined the Eastern Counties Football League Division One in 2001 and achieved second place in 2002. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division.
Histon's traditional rivals used to be Ely City, but the clubs have not met in recent years and Histon now consider Cambridge City to be their main rivals and a recent 5-0 drubbing of Cambridge United in the 2006-07 FA Trophy will have done nothing to enhance their relations with the local giants.
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[edit] History
The club was formed in 1904 as Histon Institute F.C. and played for many years in the Cambridgeshire Football League.
In 1960 the club (which by now had dropped the "Institute" from their name) joined the Delphian League, but just three years later this league disbanded. Histon, along with most of the other member clubs, joined the Athenian League. In 1966 they switched to the Eastern Counties League, where they were to play for nearly twenty-five years. When the ECL adopted a two-division format in 1988, Histon were placed in the Premier Division. They were relegated to Division One in 1995 but were promoted back up just two years later. In the 1999-00 season they won the Premier Division title and were promoted to the Southern Football League.
The 2003-04 season saw Histon finish 2nd in the Southern League's Eastern Division to claim promotion to the Premier Division, and they followed this up by winning the Premier Division championship at the first attempt, and with it promotion to Conference South, the highest level at which the club had ever played.
In their first season at this level Histon finished in 5th place, enough to secure a place in the play offs for promotion to the Conference National. They won their first game away at Farnborough Town 3-0, but lost 2-0 in the play-off final at Broadhall Way against St. Albans City.
In the FA Cup they managed to reach the second round proper after beating Hednesford Town in the first round. The team managed a draw away at Nuneaton Borough but were defeated in the replay at the Glassworld Stadium 2-1. They would have played Premiership club Middlesbrough if they had won. Nonetheless the second round replay saw 3,077 people at the Glassworld Stadium, the highest attendance of the whole season.
[edit] Club honours
- Southern League
- Premier Division champions 2004-05
- Eastern Division, Runners-up 2003-04
- Merit Cup winners, 2003-04
- Eastern Counties League
- Premier Division Champions 1999-00
- Division One Champions 1996-97
- League Cup winners 1990-91
- Professional Cup winners 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04
- Invitation Cup winners 1977-78, 1979-80, 1984-85, 1996-97, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2004-05
- Non League Fair Play Award, Winners, 2003/04
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Sources
- Histon at the Football Club History Database
