Fleet Spurs Football Club are a football club based in

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, England. They play in the . The club is affiliated to the

Hampshire Football Association The Hampshire Football Association, also known as ''Hampshire FA'', is the governing body of football in the county of Hampshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its ...

and is an FA Charter Standard Development club.

History

Fleet Spurs were established in 1948, originally playing friendlies. In 1951 the club then joined the Aldershot & District Football League, where they remained until the end of the 1964–65 season. For the 1965–66 season the club joined the Surrey Premier League and became League A champions in the 1968–69 season. The club, though, returned to the Aldershot & District League from the 1971–72 season. They joined Division Three of the

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in 1991 after becoming dual Aldershot Senior League champions and Peter Benyon Cup winners the season before. In their first season in the Hampshire League they immediately gained promotion to Division Two. Six seasons later in the 1997–98 they gained further promotion as they climbed to Division One as Division Two champions. The club stayed in the top flight of the Hampshire League though for just two seasons as when the league was re-organised they were placed in the newly formed Division One, just below the Premier Division. The club then stayed in Division One until the end of the 2003–04 season, when the

Wessex League The Wessex Football League is an English association football league formed in 1986, with its premier division currently at the fifth step of the National League System, or the ninth tier of the overall English football league system. The part ...

merged with the

and Fleet Spurs were placed in the newly formed Division Three of the Wessex league. At the end of the 2006–07 season Division Three was renamed Division Two and the club was promoted to Division One as Division Two was disbanded. Since then the club has remained as a member of the

Division One. In the 2010–11 season the club made its debut in its first FA national competition when they entered the FA Vase for the first time. A season later the club made their debut in the

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being knocked out by fellow debutants Shrewton United. In November 2013, they were obliged to change their badge, which included a stylised cockerel, because its similarity to

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's logo infringed that club's copyright. At the end of the 2020–21 season the club were transferred to Division One of the Wessex League.

Ground

Fleet Spurs play their games at Kennels Lane in Southwood, near Farnborough.

Honours

League honours

Division Two **Champions (1): 1997–89 *Surrey Premier League A Division **Champions (1): 1968–69 *Aldershot Senior League **Champions (1): 1990–91

Cup honours

*Surrey Premier League Cup **Runners-up (1): 1970–71 *Peter Benyon Cup: ** Winners (1): 1990–91 *Hampshire Junior Cup B Winners: ** Winners (1): 1952–53 *Aldershot Junior Cup Winners: ** Winners (1): 1952–53

Records

*Highest League Position: 3rd in

Division One 2009–10 *

best performance: Extra Preliminary Round 2011–12, 2012–13 * FA Vase best performance: Second Qualifying Round 2010–11,

References

External links

Official website
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