Oakham United F.C. was a football club based in
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 48,527 in 2019. It is the largest town in the district of Ashfield,
four miles west of Mansfield, two miles from the Derbyshire border and 12 miles nort ...
,
Nottinghamshire. It was formed in 1969 and was in existence up to 1996. There was often some confusion from visiting teams with the club named after an area of nearby
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
.
The club's most successful years came in the mid-1990s, finishing twice as runner-up in the
Central Midlands Football League Supreme division, before becoming champions in the club's final year in the 1995–96 season. The club was unable to gain promotion from the league due to its Mansfield Hosiery Mills ground not meeting the criteria of the
Northern Counties East League, one side of the ground over-lapping onto a cricket pitch. An ambitious plan to move to nearby
Huthwaite and change the name to Sutton Town (at the time the old
Sutton Town
Sutton Town A.F.C. was a football club based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The previous club was a member of the Northern Counties East League Premier Division until 2007 when they resigned, but the new club joined the Central M ...
was known as Ashfield United) never materialised and the club resigned from the league.
The Hosiery Mills ground was planned to be developed as the new home of
Mansfield Town
Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Stags', they ...
, but they chose to stay at Field Mill. The ground was closed and the club house was later burnt down by vandals. The site is now a large
B&Q store.
A totally separate
club of the same name has been formed in
Oakham,
Rutland
Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire.
Its greatest len ...
playing in the
Peterborough and District Football League
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
References
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External links
Football Club History Database
Defunct football clubs in Nottinghamshire
Association football clubs disestablished in 1996
1969 establishments in England
1996 disestablishments in England
Central Midlands Football League
Midland Football League (1889)
Northern Counties East Football League