Woodford Town 2017 F.C.

Woodford Town 2017
Full name Woodford Town 2017 Football Club
Nickname(s) The Woods
Founded 2007
Ground Goffs Lane, Cheshunt
Ground Capacity 5,000 (300 seated)[1]
Chairman Tony Scott
Manager Tony Levoli
League Essex Senior League
2016–17 Essex Senior League, 22nd of 22

Woodford Town 2017 Football Club is a football club based in Woodford in the London Borough of Redbridge. They are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at Goffs Lane in Cheshunt, groundsharing with Broxbourne Borough.

History

The club was formed in 2007 by a merger of Mauritius Sports and Walthamstow Avenue & Pennant and were initially named Mauritius Sports & Pennant.[2] Mauritius Sports had been established in 2000 with the aim of providing a good standard of footballing opportunity for the Mauritian community in London, as well as providing a feeder for British-born Mauritians to play for their country at international level.[3] The new club joined Division One of the London Intermediate League for the 2001–02 season,[4] before becoming members of the Premier Division of the Middlesex County League in 2003.[5]

The new club were accepted into the Essex Senior League for the 2007–08 season. Two years later they were renamed Mauritius Sports Association UK,[6] before becoming Haringey & Waltham Development in 2011.[7] Following its association with the Greenhouse London sports charity, the club changed its name again in 2013, becoming Greenhouse London,[8] and then Greenhouse Sports in 2015.[9] The club became Haringey & Waltham in 2016.[10] Although they finished bottom of the league in 2016–17, they were reprieved from relegation.[11] They then changed their name to Woodford Town 2017 for the 2017–18 season.[12]

Ground

The club played at Waltham Forest's Wadham Lodge ground in Walthamstow until 2011, when they moved to Coles Park in Haringey to groundshare with Haringey Borough. In 2016 they moved to the Terrence McMillan stadium in Newham.

Records

See also

References

  1. ↑ Broxbourne Borough V&E Pyramid Passion
  2. ↑ Mauritius Sports & Pennant at the Football Club History Database
  3. ↑ Haringey & Waltham Development 4 Bowers & Pitsea 1 Destination Havant 'Ville Departing Waterloo
  4. ↑ Mauritius Sports at the Football Club History Database
  5. ↑ Middlesex County League 2000–2006 Non-League Matters
  6. ↑ Mauritius Sports Association at the Football Club History Database
  7. 1 2 Haringey & Waltham Development at the Football Club History Database
  8. 1 2 Greenhouse London at the Football Club History Database
  9. 1 2 Greenhouse Sports at the Football Club History Database
  10. ↑ Haringey & Waltham at the Football Club History Database
  11. ↑ Club allocations – Steps 5 & 6 2017/2018 The Football Association
  12. ↑ Shock omission as Senior League constitution confirmed Waltham Forest F.C.

Coordinates: 51°42′21″N 0°03′36″W / 51.705866°N 0.059874281°W / 51.705866; -0.059874281

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