St Francis Rangers F.C. is a football club based in

Haywards Heath Haywards Heath is a town in West Sussex, England, south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and northeast of the county town, Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, Crawl ...

, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Colwell Ground.

History

The club was founded in 2002 from the amalgamation of St Francis FC and Ansty Rangers. The team were promoted from the third division of the Sussex County League in 2004 and were promoted again three years later. In the 2015-16 season, ''The Argus'' newspaper dubbed St Francis Rangers 'the worst football team in England' during a season where they only won once and were relegated (at the time the article was written, the team had lost all of the 23 games they had played up to that point) from the Premier Division of the Southern Combination Football League to Division One, where they remained until the club folded in December 2018. On 23 May 2019,

Whitehawk F.C. Whitehawk Football Club is a semi-professional English football club based in Whitehawk, a suburb of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. The club currently plays in the . Whitehawk's home ground is the 3126-capacity Enclosed Ground, ...

Under 18's manager Del Tobias and a partner, took on the club, re-founded it and re-entered the team into the

2019–20 Southern Combination Football League The 2019–20 Southern Combination Football League season was the 95th in the history of the competition, which lies at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. The provisional club allocations for steps 5 and 6 were first announce ...

Division Two as an intermediate team with ambitions to rebuild the club.

References

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