Woodford Town Football Club is a

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club based in

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in the

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. They are currently members of the and play at Ashton Playing Fields.

History

Established as Mauritius Sports in 2002, the club was founded with the aim of providing a good standard of footballing opportunity for the Mauritian community in London, as well as providing a feeder for British-born Mauritians to play for their country at international level.Haringey & Waltham Development 4 Bowers & Pitsea 1
Destination Havant 'Ville Departing Waterloo The new club joined Division One of the London Intermediate League for the 2001–02 season, before becoming members of the Premier Division of the

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in 2003.Middlesex County League 2000–2006
Non-League Matters They merged with CMB (Metal Box) in 2004, and played as Mauritius Sports (CMB) in the 2004–05 season before reverting to their original name. The club were accepted into the Essex Senior League for the 2007–08 season following a merger of Mauritius Sports and Walthamstow Avenue & Pennant and were initially named Mauritius Sports & Pennant. Two years later they were renamed Mauritius Sports Association UK, before becoming Haringey & Waltham Development in 2011. Following its association with the Greenhouse London sports charity, the club changed its name again in 2013, becoming Greenhouse London, and then Greenhouse Sports in 2015. The club became Haringey & Waltham in 2016. Although they finished bottom of the league in 2016–17, they were reprieved from relegation. They then changed their name to Woodford Town 2017 for the 2017–18 season, succeeding the club who left 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, ...

in 2016. The 2017 part of the name was dropped in 2019.

Ground

The club played at Waltham Forest's Wadham Lodge ground in

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until 2011, when they moved to Coles Park in Haringey to groundshare with Haringey Borough. In 2016 they moved to the

Terence McMillan Stadium The Terence McMillan Stadium is a small Sport of athletics, athletics and association football, football stadium in Plaistow, Newham, Plaistow, in the London Borough of Newham of East London, East London, England. It is named after the first ma ...

in Plaistow before starting a groundshare with Broxbourne at Goff's Lane for the 2017–18 season. The club relocated to the Harlow Arena prior to the 2018–19 season, and announced their intention to return to Woodford at Ashton Playing Fields for 2020. The club were due to move into Ashton Playing Fields in November 2020, however new lockdown measures due to the

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postponed the club's return to Woodford. The stand at the new ground is named the 'Jas Athwal Stand' in recognition of

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, the Leader of

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, for his contribution to bringing the club home to Woodford. On 13 August 2021, Woodford played their first game at the stadium, losing 2–1 against Stansted in front of 822 spectators.

Records

*Best

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performance: First qualifying round, 2013–14, 2023-24 *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: Second round, 2011–12, 2015–16

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