Canning Town Football Club is a

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club based in

Canning Town Canning Town is a district in the London Borough of Newham, East London. The district is located to the north of the Royal Victoria Dock, and has been described as the "Child of the Victoria Docks" as the timing and nature of its urbanisation ...

, in the

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, England. They are currently members of the .

History

The club was formed in 1948 by Eric Keylock who had decided to start his own football team after persuading his other founding company, Traffic Services, to provide sets of the club uniform. Keylock decided to pursue this endeavour after being discharged from the

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. During the 1980s, Canning Town competed in the

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. The club joined the Essex Intermediate League (later to become the Essex Olympian League) in 2000, winning Division Two in their first season in the league. The club first competed in the Premier Division for the first time in the 2007–08 season, remaining in the Premier Division for five seasons. Canning Town entered the

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for the first time in 2009, losing 7–0 to Erith Town in the first qualifying round. In the 2015–16 season, the first team won Division One of the Essex Olympian Football League and were promoted back into the Premier Division. In the 2016–17 season, they reached the first round proper of the FA Vase for the first time in their history, losing 5–4 at home against

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Ground

During the early 2000s, Canning Town played at Southern Road Playing Fields in Plaistow, later moving to Gooseley Playing Fields in

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by the mid-2000s. The club later moved to the

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in Plaistow, before moving to the

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Foundation ground in

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. On 22 May 2024, Canning Town announced their intention to move out of

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and groundshare with Rayleigh Town at their Rayleigh Town Sports & Social Club ground. In September 2011, Canning Town used

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's Mill Field ground for a 1–1

draw against

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Records

*Best league position: 7th in the Essex Olympian League, 2007–08 *Best

performance: First round, 2016–17

References

External links

Official website
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