Slough Town F.C.
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| Full name | Slough Town Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Rebels | ||
| Founded | 1890 | ||
| Ground | St. Leonards Road, Windsor (Groundshare with Windsor & Eton) | ||
| Capacity | 4,500 (covered 650, seated 400) | ||
| Chairman | tbc | ||
| Manager | Darron Wilkinson | ||
| League | Isthmian League Premier Division | ||
| 2005-06 | Isthmian League Premier Division, 17th | ||
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Slough Town F.C. is an English football (soccer) club. The club was officially founded in 1890 after the amalgamation of three local clubs, Swifts, Slough Albion and Young Mens' Friendly Society, who between them forged a new club, Slough FC. The club is a senior non-League football club representing Slough, England.
Nicknamed "The Rebels", the team are currently playing in the Isthmian League Premier Division.
History
Slough F.C. was originally formed in 1890 and initially played in the Southern Alliance alongside the likes of Tottenham Hotspur and Erith & Belvedere before later moving on to the Great Western Suburban League. in 1921 they attempted to join the Isthmian League but lost out to Wycombe Wanderers in the voting. Instead they chose to join the Spartan League.
In 1936 the owners of the club's ground, Dolphin Stadium, sold up to a greyhound racing consortium, who ordered the football club to vacate the stadium three years later. After being forced to groundshare with Maidenhead United for several years, the club agreed to a merge with Slough Centre F.C. in order to return to a ground in their home town. The new club took the name Slough United F.C.
After World War II Slough United were reluctant to rejoin the Spartan League and led a breakaway movement to form a new league, which became the Corinthian League. It was from this that the club derived its nickname of "The Rebels". Shortly after this the two clubs which had merged to form Slough United separated once again, with the former Slough F.C. continuing under the new name of Slough Town F.C.
Slough were Corinthian League champions in 1950-51 but in 1964 the league folded and Slough, along with many other former Corinthian clubs, joined an expanded Athenian League. They were champions of this league on three occasions, with the third win earning them promotion to the Isthmian League in 1973. During the 1980s they were league champions on two occasions, the second of which earned them promotion to the Football Conference. They lasted four seasons at this level, were relegated back to the Isthmian League, bounced back at the first attempt, and then played three more seasons of Conference football. In 1998 the consortium which had bought the club out of receivership seven years earlier decided that they were not prepared to pay for ground improvements required to remain in the Conference, and so the club was demoted back to the Isthmian League despite having finished in 8th place.
Further relegation to the Isthmian League Division One followed in 2000-01 but the club regained its Premier Division status in 2003-04 and remains there to this day.
Ground
The club has been based in Windsor, ground-sharing with Windsor & Eton, since they were evicted from Wexham Park Stadium, Slough, their home since 1973, at the end of the 2002-03 season.
Club Records
- Record Win: 17-0 v Railway Clearing House 1921/22
- Record Defeat: 11-1 v Chesham Town 1909/1910
- Record Transfer Fee Paid: £18,000 for Colin Fielder from Farnborough Town in 1991
- Record Transfer Fee Received: £22,000 for Steve Thompson from Wycombe Wanderers in 1992
Sources
- Slough Town at the Football Club History Database
- Slough United at the Football Club History Database
- Slough Centre at the Football Club History Database