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| Full name | Mole Valley SCR Football Club |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| League | Combined Counties League Division One |
Mole Valley SCR F.C. are a football club based in Leatherhead, Surrey, England. They were formed in 2008 by the merger of two clubs: Mole Valley Predators and Sutton Common Rovers. Mole Valley Predators were members of the Combined Counties League Premier Division in 2005-06, but resigned from the league at the end of the season and now only field youth and veteran sides. The new club plays in the Combined Counties League Division One.
History
Chairman and Life President Alan Salmon founded Sutton Common Rovers in 1978, when the club began life as I.N.R.A.D. based in Carshalton. The club entered a new era when Alan moved to Sutton and arranged sponsorship with his new neighbour, Centre 21 FC was born. This era saw the club running one Saturday side, three Sunday sides and three Youth sides. Centre 21's sponsorship continued until the club's youth players were no longer under 21 years old.
The club again sought new an identity; Sutton Common Road was formed and subsequently abbreviated to SCR F.C. Since then the club has had five major sponsors whose names have been incorporated into the club's affiliated name: SCR Plough (twice), SCR Grapes, next the club's longest sponsor SCR Litten Tree (7 years) and finally SCR Kingfisher, Ewell with whom they started our venture in Saturday football in 204/05 until the then landlord Andy Coxs' departure.
It was at this point that the club took the decision to revert back to using the SCR name alone, feeling that as they strove for continued promotion they needed to disassociate themselves with the ‘pub team’ image. That said the club did take sponsorship form the Fox & Hounds public house in Carshalton for the Saturday first team in 2006/07, but the decision was made that the pub name would not be incorporated into the affiliated name, for the above reason.
The club entered yet another new era for the season 2007/08, with the introduction of a third Saturday side co run by Alex Avis and Tony Williams and the first team moved to the Middlesex County Football League (and a name change Sutton Common Rovers) in the pursuit of Combined Counties football, having made an unsuccessful application from the Surrey South Eastern Combination at the end of season 2006/07 having finished joint top (3rd on goal difference by 1 goal).
Harry Barrett continued to run the first Surrey South Eastern Combination side until February 2008 when several personal factors meant unfortunately he had to step down. This paved the way for John Waddingham and Ben Jeffcoate to take the reins as caretaker managers. During this shake-up several additional changes took place in 2007/08 season; Alex moved in a new temporary role as 1st team assistant and within the team Sunday management the arrival of the youngest of the Salmons, Justin taking over jointly the 1st team with Dave Newbury. Stephen Snowdon and Alan Reed continued for the 4th season at the helm of the Sunday 2nd team. A third-place finish in the Middlesex County League Premier division in 07/08 meant that the club's promotion to the CCL was not assured but months of hard work and determination from the management team at SCR eventually secured a place within the league constitution for the club's first time in their 30-year history at the league AGM in June 2008. The club also took the decision to take their reserve team into the CCL. Taking a place within the leagues Reserve Division under the joint guidance of Justin Salmon and Alex Avis, Alex has since elected to concentrate on playing and now been replaced by Simon Pike. Darren Salmon remains at the helm of the 1st with new additions Peter Hayne as assistant & Ken Bremner as club playing coach and the returning Gary Brigden as goalkeeping coach.
This season (08/09) has also seen the latest name change of the club, this time with the inclusion of "Mole Valley" to form the new name Mole Valley SCR F.C. reflecting the area in which they play.
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