Buckland Athletic Football Club is a football club based in

Newton Abbot Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its 2011 population of 24,029 was estimated to reach 26,655 in 2019. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era as the home of the So ...

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. They are currently members of the and play at Homers Heath.

History

The club was established in 1977 as a youth team and joined the Torbay Pioneer League.History
Buckland Athletic F.C. After winning the Devon Youth Cup, the club entered senior football, joining Division Three of the Devon & Exeter League in 1987. They won the division at the first attempt, and were promoted to Division Two. They were promoted again the following season, moving up to Division One. A fourth-place finish in Division One in 1992–93 saw Buckland promoted to the Premier Division. They went on to win the Premier Division title and Football Express Cup in 1994–95, and the East Devon Senior Cup the following season. The club won the Premier Division Cup in 1997–98, and after retaining it the following season,Old cups no longer
Devon & Exeter League they were Premier Division champions again in 1999–2000.Premier Division
Devon & Exeter League After winning their second Premier Division title, Buckland moved up to the

Devon County League The Devon County Football League was a football competition based in England. It consisted of 20 clubs and sat at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System. History The league was formed in 1992 in order to form an intermediate level be ...

, and were runners-up in their first season. In 2007 the league merged with the South Western League to form the

South West Peninsula League The South West Peninsula League (SWPL) is a football competition in England, which was formed in 2007 from the merger of the Devon County League and the South Western League. The league is restricted to clubs based in Cornwall, Devon and West ...

, with Buckland placed in the Premier Division. They were Premier Division champions in 2009–10 and retained the title the following season. After finishing as Premier Division runners-up in 2011–12, the club were promoted to the Premier Division of the Western League. In 2014–15 they were Western League runners-up.

Ground

The club initially played at Sandringham Park, before moving to Decoy during the 1990–91 season. Within two years they moved to Homers Lane. In 2005 the club relocated to their current Homers Heath ground on Kingkerswell Road. The ground was officially opened on 13 July by Steve Perryman prior to a friendly match against Plymouth Argyle.

Honours

*South West Peninsula League **Premier Division champions 2009–10, 2010–11 **Throgmorton Cup winners 2009–10 **Charity Bowl winners 2009¢, 2011–12 *Devon and Exeter League **Premier Division champions 1994–95, 1999–2000 **Division Three champions 1987–88 **Premier Cup winners 1997–98, 1998–99 *Devon St Lukes Bowl **Winners 2010–11, 2011–12Devon Cups
Football Club History Database *East Devon Senior Cup **Winners 1995–96 *Football Express Cup **Winners 1994–95

Management staff

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, 2012–13 *Best FA Vase performance: Quarter-finals, 2016–17

References

External links

Official website
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