| Full name | Broadbridge Heath Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Bears | ||
| Founded | 1919 | ||
| Ground | The Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre Broadbridge Heath |
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| Manager | Steve Painter | ||
| League | Sussex County League Division Three |
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| 2010–11 | Sussex County League Division Three, 6th |
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Broadbridge Heath F.C. are a football club based in Broadbridge Heath, near Horsham, in West Sussex, England currently playing their home fixtures at the Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre on Wickhurst Lane.
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Broadbridge Heath FC was founded in 1919 by local ex-members of the armed forces who had just returned from the 1914-18 Great War. In the very first season of competitive football, with only 12 registered players, the club won the Horsham & District Championship, and Challenge Cup. In 1970-71, the League amalgamated with the West Sussex Football League with the Club joining Division Three.
Promotion was won to Division Two the following season.
In 1978-79, following promotion from the Premier Division of the WSFL, Broadbridge Heath joined the Southern Counties Combination League, which at that time, was a feeder to the Sussex County League. The SCCL amalgamated with the County League in 1983-84, with Broadbridge Heath becoming founder members of Division Three. The club moved to its new facilities at Wickhurst Lane in 1987 and won promotion to Division Two the following year. Since then the club has remained in senior football, and spent a season (1998–99) in Division One before relegation back to Division Two, where they have sustained a mid-table position.
With Horsham and Horsham YMCA close by, low attendances have always been a problem, combined with the absence of any bar revenue. However with a large development of approx 2,000 houses planned for the area, the future of Broadbridge Heath Football Club, in their own facilities, away from the Leisure Centre, is now a realistic possibility, guaranteeing the future of the club.
Since relegation in 2008, for the 2011-12 season, they are members of the Sussex County League Division Three.
They first entered the FA Cup in the 2004–05 season.[1]
The current management team at Broadbridge Heath F.C.[2]
Manager: Steve Painter
Assistant Manager: Sam Chapman
Club Coaches: Steve Hoare & Damian Francis
Club Physio: Nicola Gorman
Reserve Team Manager: Mick Robinson
Assistant Reserve Team Manager: Mike Balfour
Youth Team Managers: Chris Higgins, Martin Wood, Nik Mulcahy Neil Brewster
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