St Neots Town F.C.
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| Full name | St Neots Town Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Saints | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1897 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Rowley Park, St Neots | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chairman | Bob Bridges | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Scott Houghton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | United Counties Premier Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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St Neots Town F.C. are a football club based in St Neots, England
[edit] History
The Club was formed in 1879 and was then known as St Neots, the first recorded formal honour was the Hunts Senior Cup, which was won during the Cups inaugural season of 1888/89. The Club then went on to lift the trophy a further four times before the turn of the century. In the 1901/02 season the Club recorded its first known double when it collected the Hunts Senior Cup (for the sixth time) and the Fellowes Cup.
Around 1924/25, the Club was renamed St Neots and District and promptly celebrated by winning the Hunts Senior Cup once again. The local Scott Gatty Cup was then won on three consecutive occasions between 1927-29 and within the following twenty years the Club went on to win the Senior Cup a further four times.
In 1949/50 the Club were founder members of the Metropolitan League and recorded the League and Cup Double, deciding not to defend their titles they resigned from the league and joined the Central Alliance League. However they then rejoined the Metropolitan League the following season and finished runners up in both the League and the Cup, playing against the reserve sides of Spurs, Arsenal and West Ham. During the 1950's the Club was renamed once more to its present name and was of a size where it could afford to employ a full time Manager/Secretary and 20 contract players.
In 1961/62 they were again runners up in the Metropolitan League Professional Cup - a trophy eventually won in 1965 when Gillingham were beaten. In 1966/67 they joined the United Counties League and also drew Walsall away in the First Round of the F.A. Cup, who were at that time second in the Third Division with an unbeaten home record. The Saints lost 2-0 with both goals coming in the last nine minutes. The next season the Club did the UCL double and then lifted the cup once more the following season.The Town set a national record for a Senior Football Trophy, winning the Hunts Senior Cup 12 consecutive seasons from 1957 to1969 bringing the total to 33 wins.
However the Club was forced to disband in 1987 after the landlords of "Shortsands" sold the ground for housing. Without a home the Town reformed in 1989 and played local junior football in the Huntingdonshire and District Football League, rewriting the record books again. Winning it four seasons in succession, a record for the League and securing promotion back into the ranks of Senior football, rejoining the United Counties League. At the same time the reserves weighed in with three league titles in their respective seasons and the Club won the Hunts Junior Cup three times and were runners up on the other occasion. In addition the Hunts Benevolent Cup was secured twice and the League Cup once.
During April 1992 a 40 year lease was signed on a 4.5 acre site to the east of the town and with tireless fund raising by the new committee, the new ground development Rowley Park commenced. With a new pitch laid and the erection of a Clubhouse facility boasting a player's lounge, function suite and large changing accommodation the Club was back on the local football scene. In that first and memorable season the Club lifted the Division One league title at the first attempt and won promotion back to the Premier Division after a very competitive season. Re admission to the F.A Cup and F.A Vase followed with the erection of a 150 seater stand and floodlighting make the Rowley Park facilities the envy of many UCL Clubs.
The Saints have now firmly established themselves one of the leading Clubs at their level and season 2001/2002 has seen the Club reach the last sixteen of the FA Vase for the first time in their history, finally bowing out 2-1 at Durham City. The new 200 plus seater 'Cambridge Road' stand was officially opened by the town crier, when St. Neots Town played Leicester City on October 22nd, in season 2002/03.
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