Chesham Town
| Chesham Town | |
| Full name | Chesham Town Football Club |
| place | Chesham |
| Founded | 1879 (as The Chesham and Waterside Club ) |
| Dissolved | 1917 |
| Club colors | |
| Stadion | |
| Top league | Southern Football League / Athenian League |
| successes | |
Chesham Town (officially: Chesham Town Football Club ) was an English football club from the city of Chesham , Buckinghamshire, in the south of England . The club was one of the founding members of the Southern League in 1894 ; In 1917 the association merged with the Chesham Generals to form Chesham United .
history
In Chesham the first football club existed with "The Chesham and Waterside Club" as early as 1879, which renamed itself in December 1880 because of the inclusion of an athletics department in "The Chesham Football & Athletic Association" and according to the club history published in 1998 it should change itself in January 1883 have resolved again. On the other hand, at the annual general meeting of the Chesham Football Club held in September 1883 at the Mechanics' Institute , the place where it was founded in 1879, persons previously active at the club were still responsible. For example, William Lowndes was club president, an office he had held at the Chesham Football & Athletic Association since 1880, and JG Stone, Jr., who continued to shape the club for years, was club secretary, a position he was already exercising as of June In 1881 Reverend Gerald ML Reade, one of the founding members from 1879, was adopted.
In 1894 Chesham was one of the founding members of Division Two of the Southern League , in 1899 the club was renamed Chesham Town. After the club had left the league in 1904, they returned in 1908, before leaving again in 1912 to become a founding member of the pure amateur league Athenian League . In terms of sport, the seasons in the Southern League and Athenian League were mixed. In the Southern League they finished third in 1899/1900 and 1909/10 (of eleven and six teams, respectively), but often they placed themselves at the bottom of the table, so also in 1903/04 and 1911/12 when they left the league . Also in the two seasons in the Athenian League one was penultimate (1912/13) and last (1913/14). The most successful performance in the FA Cup came in the 1899/1900 season, when they lost 7-1 to Reading FC , first division of the Southern League, in the fifth and final qualifying round ; in the FA Amateur Cup they advanced to the third main round in the 1908/09 season (0-2 against Dulwich Hamlet ).
While regular gaming was suspended due to the First World War , Chesham Town and the Chesham Generals, founded in 1887, merged to form Chesham United in 1917 , an idea that was first discussed in 1902.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Gibbins: The History of Chesham United . Chesham 1998, ISBN 0-9532691-0-8 , pp. 1 f .
- ↑ CHESHAM. . In: Bucks Herald , September 22, 1883, p. 3. (link subject to charge)
- ↑ TESTIMONIALS TO THE REV. G. M L. READE . In: Bucks Herald , June 18, 1881, p. 6. (link with costs)
- ^ Peter Gibbins: The History of Chesham United . Chesham 1998, ISBN 0-9532691-0-8 , pp. 19th f .