Crawley Green Football Club is a

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club based in

Crawley Green Crawley Green is a suburb of south-east Luton near to London Luton Airport, in the Borough of Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The area is roughly bounded by Crawley Green Road to the north, Devon Road to the south, the Midland Main Line to the we ...

, an area of Luton, Bedfordshire England. Affiliated to the

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, they are currently members of the and play at the Brache.

History

The club was established in November 1989 by a merger of three Sunday league clubs, Ramridge Rangers, Stopsley Harriers and The Wyvern.History
Crawley Green F.C. After absorbing Somerset Tavern in 1992, the club established a Saturday team. They joined Division One of the

South Midlands League The South Midlands League was a association football, football league covering Bedfordshire and some adjoining counties in England. It was founded in 1922 as the Bedfordshire County League and merged with the Spartan League in 1997 to form the ...

in 1995, and when the league merged with the Spartan League to form the Spartan South Midlands League in 1997, they were placed in Division One North. However, they left the league at the end of the 1997–98 season. In 1999 the club rejoined the Spartan South Midlands League, and were placed in Division One, which was renamed Division Two in 2001. They won the Division in 2004–05, but were not promoted. In 2007–08 they finished as runners-up and were promoted to Division One. In 2011–12 they won the Division One Cup. They won it again in 2015–16. The season also saw them finish second in the league and earning promotion to the Premier Division.

Ground

After the club's formation, they obtained a 99-year lease on the Crawley Green Sports & Social Club. A new clubhouse was built and opened by Luton Town manager

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on 9 June 1992. However, the first team were later forced to groundshare at Barton Rovers due a lack of floodlights, although the reserves still play at the Sports & Social Club. Unable to upgrade the Sports & Social Centre,"Crawley Green", ''

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'', Autumn 2018, p19 in 2018 the club moved back to Luton to play at the Brache, Luton Town's training ground. The Brache had previously been used by Vauxhall Motors (Luton) until an artificial pitch was installed for hockey in 1991, forcing the club to resign from the

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; the pitch was later upgraded to 3G astroturf. A wooden stand remains in place from the Vauxhall Motors era.

Honours

*Spartan South Midlands League **Division Two champions 2004–05 **Division One Cup winners 2011–12, 2015–16 *Bedfordshire Senior Trophy **Winners 2004–05, 2009–10,Senior Trophy finals 2002–2013
Bedfordshire FA 2014–15

Records

*Best FA Cup performance: First qualifying round, 2010–11 *Best

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performance: Second round, 2023–24

References

External links

Official website
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