Leverstock Green Football Club is a football club based in the

Leverstock Green Leverstock Green is a suburb in Hemel Hempstead, in the English county of Hertfordshire. It is located on the eastern edge of the town. Leverstock Green has a school, Leverstock Green Church of England Primary School, cricket club, tennis clu ...

suburb of

Hemel Hempstead Hemel Hempstead () is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of London, which is part of the Greater London Urban Area. The population at the 2011 census was 97,500. Developed after the Second World War as a ne ...

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

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. They are currently members of the and play at Pancake Lane.

History

The club was established around 1895.History
Leverstock Green F.C. They joined Division Three of the West Herts League in 1908. In 1954 the club moved up to Division Two of the

Hertfordshire Senior County League The Hertfordshire Senior County League is a football competition based in Hertfordshire, England. Founded in 1898, there are currently two divisions at senior level and two divisions at reserve and development level. Sitting at step 7 of the Nat ...

. They were runners-up in their first season in the division and were, earning promotion to Division One B, which became Division One the following season. The club were relegated to Division Two at the end of the 1966–67 season, but were promoted back to Division One in 1973–74 after finishing second in Division Two. Leverstock Green were Division One champions in 1978–79, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Although they were relegated to Division One in 1983–84, the following season saw them finish as runners-up in Division One, securing an immediate promotion back to the Premier Division. The club were relegated again in 1986–87, but were promoted back to the Premier Division at the end of the 1988–89 season having finished as runners-up in Division One. They were Premier Division runners-up in 1990–91, after which the club moved up to the Premier Division 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 1993 Leverstock Green were demoted to the Senior Division of the South Midlands League as their ground did not have floodlights. They went on to finish as runners-up in 1995–96 and then won the division in 1996–97. At the end of the season the league then merged with the

Spartan League The Spartan League was a football league in England covering London and adjacent counties. Established in 1907, it merged with the South Midlands League in 1997 to form the Spartan South Midlands League. History The Spartan League was establish ...

to form the

Spartan South Midlands League The Spartan South Midlands Football League is an English football league covering Hertfordshire, northwest Greater London, central Buckinghamshire and southern Bedfordshire. It is a feeder to the Southern Football League or the Isthmian League, ...

, with Leverstock Green placed in the Senior Division. The division was renamed Division One in 2001, and the club were promoted to the Premier Division at the end of the 2002–03 season after a fourth-place finish.

Ground

The club initially played near the village green or in a field now part of the Horseshoe road, with the nearby Rose & Crown pub used as changing rooms.Leverstock Green Football Club
Leverstock Green Chronicle They later moved to the Pancake Lane ground, which was part of the Gorhambury Estate owned by John Grimston. When Grimston died, the land on which the ground is located was transferred to

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, although it is managed by the

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. Floodlights were installed in 1999 after several years of opposition from the local council. New changing rooms were built in 2007 and a 113-seat stand was installed during the 2009–10 season.

Honours

*South Midlands League **Senior Division champions 1996–97 *Hertfordshire Senior County League **Division One champions 1978–79 *Herts Charity Shield **Winners 2006–07, 2010–11Honours
Leverstock Green F.C.

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, 2014–15, 2018–19 *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: Fifth round, 2010–11

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