Bedfont Town Football Club was a semi-professional
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club based in
Bedfont,
Greater London
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,
England.
History
The club was established in 1965 as Bedfont Green, playing as a
Sunday league side in the West Middlesex Sunday Football League. In 1981 the club started playing Saturday football and joined the Hounslow & District League. Five years later they switched to the Woking & District League. They gained promotion to the
Surrey County Intermediate League (Western)
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in 2001. In 2004 they won the Premier Division title and were promoted to the
Combined Counties League Division One. They finished second in their first season in the new league and gained promotion once again. In 2009 they won the Combined Counties Premier Division and were promoted into the
Southern League Division One South & West
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for the 2009–10 season.
The club changed their name to Bedfont Town in 2010 and played their home games at The Orchard, the former home ground of
Bedfont, in a ground-share with
Feltham but folded in May 2012 after the club got into financial difficulties following the resignation of their chairman, and their landlords rejected a plan for the club to stay at The Orchard,
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, but withdrew at the end of the 2013-14 season.
Ground
The club initially played at Bedfont Recreation Ground (now home to Bedfont Sports) before moving to Ashford Recreation Ground on Clockhouse Lane, Ashford Ashford may refer to:
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, where they remained until the 2000s. They then played at Avenue Park in Greenford (previously home to Viking Greenford), and shared with Yeading and Windsor & Eton before returning to Bedfont in 2010 to play at The Orchard, which they shared with Feltham. The phoenix club, founded in 2012, played at Clockhouse Lane before resigning from their league.
Honours
* Combined Counties League Premier Division:
Records
*Highest League Position:
Former players
1. Players that have played/Managed in the football league or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league).
2. Players with full international caps.
3. Players that hold a club record.
*Charlie Ide
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* Dave Hogan
*Byron Bubb
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*Louis Dennis
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References
External links
Official websiteAFC Bedfont Green websiteYouth website
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Football clubs in England
Association football clubs established in 1965
Defunct football clubs in London
1965 establishments in England
Surrey County Intermediate League (Western)
Combined Counties Football League
Southern Football League clubs
Guildford and Woking Alliance League
Association football clubs disestablished in 2012
2012 disestablishments in England
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