Boreham Wood FC

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Boreham Wood FC
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Basic data
Surname Boreham Wood Football Club
Seat Borehamwood
founding June 24, 1948
Website borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach Luke Garrard
Venue Meadow Park
Places 4502
league National League
2019/20 5th place
home
Away

The FC Boreham Wood (official: Boreham Wood Football Club ) - also known as The Wood - is a football club from the English town of Borehamwood , Hertfordshire . The club, founded in 1948, played in amateur leagues until 1974, then in the Isthmian League for over 30 years . In 2015 the club was promoted to the National League , the top division in non-league football .

history

A team called Tunnel United is said to have existed in Borehamwood as early as the 1880s , and a team called Boreham Rovers appeared for the first time after the First World War . The club disbanded in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II. During the Second World War there was a U18 team under the name Boreham Wood Swifts , which disbanded in 1946 when a large number of the players were called up for military service. After the end of the fighting, the Boreham Rovers were re-established for the 1946/47 season, in 1947 the club was renamed Boreham Wood , and in 1948 they merged with the Royal Retournez , a team formed from war returnees, which was also the official founding date of the current one Association applies.

Boreham Wood initially played in the local Mid-Herts League, from 1952 onwards they played successively in the Parthenon League , Spartan League and Athenian League , all of which were amateur leagues. In the 1973/74 season the club was champions of the Athenian League and reached the first main round of the FA Cup for the first time . After the separation of professionals and amateurs was lifted, they joined the Isthmian League in 1974 , where they played until 2004, when they were assigned to the Southern League for two years for geographical reasons . In 2006 they rose as champions of the eight-class Eastern Division of the Southern League to the Premier Division of the Isthmian League, and in 2010 they were fourth in the table via the play-offs (2-0 final win over FC Kingstonian ) and were promoted to the six-class Conference South . There they stayed in the middle of the table for the following seasons, in 2015 they reached the play-offs as runner-up, in which they defeated FC Whitehawk 2-1 in the final and rose to the National League . 2018 was Boreham Wood as a table Fourth of Final Ranking in the ascension play-offs, first sat down against AFC Fylde and Sutton United through, but lost the final in Wembley Stadium to Tranmere Rovers 1: 2, although after a sending off in the first minute of the game played the entire game in the majority. They were also successful in the FA Cup 2017/18 , in which they reached the second main round for the third time after 1996/97 and 1997/98.

successes

  • Conference South play-off winners: 2014/15
  • Isthmian League Premier Division play-off winner: 2009/10
  • Isthmian League Division One champions: 1994/95, 2000/01
  • Isthmian League Division Two champions: 1976/77
  • Southern League Division One East champions: 2005/06
  • Champion of the Athenian League Division One: 1973/74
  • Athenian League Division Two Champion: 1968/69
  • Winner of the League Cup of the Isthmian League: 1996/97
  • Winner of the Herts Senior Cup : 1971/72, 1998/99, 2001/02, 2007/08, 2013/14, 2017/18
  • Winner of the Herts Charity Cup : 1980/81, 1983/84, 1985/86, 1988/89, 1989/90
  • London Challenge Cup winner : 1997/98

League affiliation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk: THE HISTORY OF BOREHAM WOOD FOOTBALL CLUB - PART 1: HOW IT ALL BEGAN (Jan. 8, 2014) , accessed October 3, 2018
  2. ↑ borehamwoodtimes.co.uk: Rovers return as Wood (October 23, 2002) , accessed October 3, 2018
  3. ↑ borehamwoodtimes.co.uk: Wood's Golden Years (Jan. 1, 2000) , accessed October 3, 2018
  4. ↑ bbc.com: Boreham Wood 1-2 Tranmere Rovers (May 12, 2018) , accessed October 3, 2018