Athletic Newham Football Club is a football club based in

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at the

Terence McMillan Stadium The Terence McMillan Stadium is a small Sport of athletics, athletics and association football, football stadium in Plaistow, Newham, Plaistow, in the London Borough of Newham of East London, East London, England. It is named after the first ma ...

in Plaistow.

History

The club was founded in 2015 as a youth team, then known as Lopes Tavares London, before moving into adult football the following season, joining the Premier Division of the

Essex Alliance Football League The Essex Alliance Football League is an Football in England, English football league for clubs based in Essex and north-eastern Greater London. The league has six divisions (Senior, Premier, Divisions One, Two, Three and Four), of which the Senio ...

. They played at the Memorial Recreation Ground in

West Ham West Ham is an area in East London, located east of Charing Cross in the west of the modern London Borough of Newham. The area, which lies immediately to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally an ancien ...

. They finished eighth in their first season and fifth in 2017–18, before successfully applying to join the new Division One South of the

Eastern Counties Football League The Eastern Counties Football League, currently known as the Thurlow Nunn League for sponsorship purposes, is an English football league at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It currently contains clubs from Norfolk, Suffol ...

for the 2018–19 season. On 27 August 2020, the club announced the renaming of the club to Athletic Newham. In 2021, the club were promoted to the

Essex Senior League The Essex Senior Football League is an English men's football league. It contains clubs from the Essex FA, Hertfordshire FA, London FA, Middlesex FA and the Amateur Football Alliance. It is a feeder league to Division One North of the Isthm ...

based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.

Stadium

The club play at the

. The stadium has one stand with seats for 192 spectators.Terence McMillan Stadium
Groundhopper United: Ground #302 - Terence McMillan Stadium
accessdate: January 25, 2020 The stadium is named after the first Mayor of Newham.Terence McMillan Stadium

accessdate: January 25, 2020 The club share the ground with Clapton.

Records

*Highest league position: 6th in

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*Best

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performance: Fourth round, 2021–22 *Best

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...

performance: Preliminary Round, 2021–22

References

External links

Official website
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