Glebe Football Club is a

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club based in

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in the

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, England. Affiliated to both the

Kent County Football Association The Kent County Football Association, known as ''Kent FA'', is the governing body of football in the county of Kent, England, and was formed in 1881. The Kent FA run over 20 County Cups at different levels of football for affiliated teams across K ...

and the

London Football Association The London Football Association (LFA) is the regional Football Association for inner areas of London. The London FA was established in 1882 and is affiliated to The Football Association. The London FA administers all levels of men's, women's and ...

,Glebe FC
Visit Chislehurst they are currently members of the and play at Foxbury Avenue.

History

The club was established by Rocky McMillan as Glebe Globetrotters in 1995, and was initially based in

West Wickham West Wickham is an area of South East London, England, mainly within the London Borough of Bromley with some parts lying in the London Borough of Croydon. It lies south of Park Langley and Eden Park, west of Hayes and Coney Hall, north of ...

.Everything we do we always exceed in, says Glebe chairman Rocky McMillan
Kentish Football, 1 July 2013 They were initially a youth team and were members of the Kent Youth League in 2013, when an adult team was formed and joined the

Kent Invicta League The Kent Invicta Football League was a football league in England, formed in 2011 to commence operations for the 2011–12 season. It covered the traditional English county of Kent, some of which is now in Greater London. It merged with the South ...

. In 2016 the league merged into the

Southern Counties East League The Southern Counties East Football League is an English football league established in 1966, which has teams based in Kent and Southeast London. Until 2013, it was known as the Kent League. There was a previous Kent League, that existed from ...

, becoming its Division One. In 2015–16 they won the London Senior Trophy, beating Tooting Bec 4–1 in the final.Glebe 4-1 Tooting Bec - It wasn't a surprise we knew the sack was coming, says Glebe manager Simon Copley
Kentish Football, 3 May 2016 In 2016–17 Glebe won the Division One title, earning promotion to the Premier Division.

Ground

After joining the Kent Invicta League, the club played at Holmesdale's Oakley Road ground in

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.Glebe sign 25-year lease on their Chislehurst based ground
Kentish Football, 26 November 2014 In 2014 they obtained a 25-year lease on Foxbury Avenue ground in Chislehurst, the former ground of

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rugby club. The first match at the new ground on 18 July 2015 saw the club lose 3–2 to Canterbury City in front of a crowd of 42.I said from day one that everything will be ready, says Glebe chairman Rocky McMillan
Kentish Football, 21 July 2015

Honours

*Southern Counties East League **Division One champions 2016–17 *London Senior Trophy **Winners 2015–16

Records

*Best

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...

performance: Second qualifying round, 2017–18 *Best

FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English footbal ...

performance: Fourth round, 2019–20, 2021–22

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