Maldon & Tiptree F.C.

Maldon & Tiptree
Full name Maldon & Tiptree Football Club
Nickname(s) Town, Blues
Founded 1946
Ground Wallace Binder Ground, Maldon
(Capacity: 2,000 (500 seated))
Chairman Alan Brockhouse
Manager Ian Cousins and Adam Flanagan (caretakers)
League Isthmian League Division One North
2010–11 Isthmian League Division One North, 8th
Home colours
Away colours

Maldon & Tiptree F.C. is an English football club based in Maldon, Essex. The club are currently members of Division One North of the Isthmian League and play at the Wallace Binder Ground.

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History

Maldon Town were formed in August 1946 as part of the Maldon Social and Athletic Club.[1] They joined Division Two of the Chemlsford & Mid-Essex League. The following season they played in the North Essex League before returning to the Chlemsford & Mid Essex League in 1949. They won the Premier Division in 1949–50 and 1950–51 and then then joined the Premier Division of the Essex & Suffolk Border League. They won the league cup in 1964–65 and the Premier Division the following season, after which they joined the Eastern Counties League.

In 1971–72 the club finished second from bottom in the ECL and rather than go through the re-election process, resigned and joined the Essex Senior League. They won the ESL in 1984–85 and returned to the ECL in 1996 when they joined Division One.[2] In 1997–98 they finished second and were promoted to the Premier Division. In 2003–04 they finished second to AFC Sudbury and were promoted to Division One East of the Southern League. They finished third in their first season and defeated Uxbridge on penalties in the play-off final, earning promotion to level seven of the football pyramid, and were placed in the Premier Division of the Isthmian League. However, they were relegated at the end of the season. In 2006–07 they finished fourth in the division, but were barred from taking part in the play-offs due to ground grading issues.[1]

In September 2009 the club was taken over by nearby Tiptree United chairman Ed Garty, with Tiptree moving to Maldon's Wallace Binder ground.[3] In 2010 Tiptree withdrew from the Essex Senior League and were amalgamated into Maldon Town to form Maldon & Tiptree.[4][5]

Ground

Maldon Town originally played at the Sadd's Ground on the Causeway.[1] In 1947 they moved to the Promenade, where they spent three seasons before moving to a ground on Fambridge Road that was named for Wallace Binder, who had financed the move. In 1994 they moved to a new ground on Park Drive, which was also named the Wallace Binder ground. The record attendance at the new ground was set in 2003 when 1,163 watched the FA Vase semi-final against AFC Sudbury.

Honours

Club records

References

  1. ^ a b c Blakeman, M (2010) The Official History of the Eastern Counties Football League 1935-2010, Volume II ISBN 9781908037022
  2. ^ Maldon Town at the Football Club History Database
  3. ^ Shock changes at Maldon Town and Tiptree United Daily Gazette, 18 September 2009
  4. ^ Merger of Maldon Town and Tiptree United is a sad necessity according to Colin Wallington Daily Gazette, 25 March 2010
  5. ^ Maldon Town to become Maldon and Tiptree Football Club Daily Gazette, 14 April 2010

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