Bicester Town Football Club is a football club based in

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, Oxfordshire,

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History

The club was established in 1873, a merger of Bicester Rovers and Bicester Harriers.The Foxhunters past and present
Bicester Town F.C. They joined the

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after winning the County Shield in 1903. They won the Oxfordshire Senior Cup in 1930 and again in 1939. In 1953 they were founder members of the Hellenic League, finishing as runners-up in its second season. They were placed in the Premier Division when the league gained a second division in 1956, and won the league title in 1960–61. The club were relegated to Division One after finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 1975–76, but returned to the Premier Division after winning Division One in 1977–78. They went on to win the Premier Division in 1979–80. The 2004–05 season saw the club relegated to Division One East. However, they finished as runners-up the following season, earning promotion back to the Premier Division. They were relegated again at the end of the 2009–10, and despite finishing second in Division One West the following season, folded after a dispute with their landlords. The club was reformed in 2015,FOOTBALL: Bicester Town bid for shock return
Oxford Mail, 15 May 2015 and rejoined the Hellenic League Division One East for the 2015–16 season. They were Division One East runners-up in 2017–18, after which the club were transferred to Division One West. The club resigned from the league shortly after the start of the 2018–19 season.Bicester Town have resigned from the Hellenic League
Football in Bracknell, 12 September 2018

Ground

Until

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the club played at several different grounds; starting at the Cricket Field in 1896 before moving to Banbury Road, then Station Road and London Road.Bicester Town
Pyramid Passion Following the war the club returned to the Cricket Field, before moving to a new ground on Oxford Road that had formerly been used as a golf course. A stand was built in the early 1930s and later extended, with a clubhouse and changing rooms built in 1960s. By 2004 the ground had a capacity of 2,000, with 250 seated; the record attendance was 955, set for a game against

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in 1994. A dispute with Bicester Sports Association, the ground's owners, forced the club to fold in 2011. When they reformed in 2015, the club started playing at Ardley United's Playing Fields ground.

Honours

*Hellenic League **Premier Division champions 1960–61, 1979–80 **Division One champions 1977–78

Club records

*Best

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performance: First qualifying round, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1954–55 and 1994–95 *Best FA Vase performance: Fourth round, 1978–79 *Record attendance: 955 vs

, 1994

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