Hebburn Town Football Club is a

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club based in

Hebburn Hebburn is a town in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It governed under the borough of South Tyneside; formerly governed under the county of Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the south ...

Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newcastl ...

, England. The club are currently members of the and play at Hebburn Sports & Social Ground.

History

The club was founded in 1912 as a

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for the Reyrolles company. Playing under the company name, they joined Division Two of the Jarrow and District Junior League.History
Hebburn Town F.C.Hebburn Town
Northern League After

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they joined Division One of South Shields Combination League, before switching to the Tyneside Combination in 1923. They joined the Tyneside League in 1927, and were league champions in 1938–39. During

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they joined the Northern Combination in 1941, and after winning the

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in 1942–43, they won the league title in 1943–44. The club then joined the

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for the 1944–45 season, before returning to the Northern Combination in 1945. The club remained in the Combination until rejoining a relaunched North Eastern League in 1959. In 1960 Reyrolles joined the

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, and were league champions in 1966–67. In 1986 they were renamed Hebburn Reyrolles, before changing their name to Hebburn in 1988. In 1989 they moved up to Division Two of the Northern League, and after finishing fourth in 1991–92, a season that also saw them win the Durham Challenge Cup for a second time, they were promoted to Division One. Despite finishing eleventh in 1994–95 the club were relegated back to Division Two due to issues with their ground. They were promoted again after finishing third in 1999–00 and then adopted their current name. However, they finished in the bottom two in their first season back in Division One and were relegated again. A third-place finish in Division Two in 2011–12 saw Hebburn promoted to Division One. However, they were relegated back to Division Two at the end of the 2013–14 season. In 2017–18 the club were Division Two runners-up, resulting in promotion to Division One. In 2019–20 they won the

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, beating

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3–2 in a match that was delayed until May 2021 due to the

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. After the 2020–21 season was also curtailed, the club were promoted to Division One East of the

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. They won the Northern League's JR Cleator Cup in July 2021, defeating West Auckland Town 3–1 in the final.

Honours

*FA Vase **Winners 2019–20 *Northern League **JR Cleator Cup winners 2021 *Wearside League **Champions 1966–67 *Northern Combination **Champions 1943–44 *Tyneside League **Champions 1938–39 *Durham Challenge Cup **Winners 1942–43, 1991–92

Records

*Best

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performance: Fourth qualifying round, 2011–12 *Best

FA Trophy The Football Association Challenge Trophy, commonly known as the FA Trophy, is a men's football knockout cup competition run by and named after the English Football Association and competed for primarily by semi-professional teams. The compet ...

performance: Third qualifying round, 2021–22 *Best

performance: Winners, 2019–20 *Record attendance: 1,705 vs Plymouth Parkway, FA Vase quarter-finals, 29 February 2020 *Biggest win: 13–0 vs Birtley Town Northern League League Cup, 1 October 2019Mixed emotions for Hebburn Town boss despite thumping 13-0 win
Shields Gazette, 4 October 2019 *Heaviest defeat: 10–3Mike Williams & Tony Williams (2016) ''Non-League Club Directory 2017'', Tony Williams Publications, p487

References

External links

Official website
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History

Honours

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