Enfield Town Football Club is a

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club based in

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, England. Established in 2001 as a fan-led breakaway from

, the club are currently members of the and play at the

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. The club badge features the

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History

The club was founded on 23 June 2001 by the Enfield Supporters' Trust after Trust members considered that the regime in charge of

no longer had the interests of the club at heart and lacked sufficient will to bring about the return of the club to its home town, having left

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in 1999. This followed the chairman of Enfield withdrawing from an outline agreement with the Supporters' Trust which would have seen the Trust take over the running of a debt-free club and receiving £100,000 from money from the sale of Southbury Road which was held in an

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. The balance of over £600,000 would have been paid to the chairman. The newly formed club were admitted to the

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for the 2001–02 season, three divisions below the Isthmian League Premier Division where Enfield continued to play. The club's first season saw them finish second in the league and win the League Cup, the Capital Counties Feeder Leagues Trophy, and the

Middlesex Senior Charity Cup The Middlesex Senior Charity Cup is a knock-out system football competition that has been running since 1901. It was presented in 1901 by C.S. Goldmann, Esq. and was first played for in the 1901–02 season, the first winners being Clapton Orien ...

. The following season they won the Essex Senior League, but were not promoted due to ground grading issues. Despite only finishing fourth in the 2003–04 season, in May 2004 the Isthmian League invited the club to join Division Two, but later rescinded the offer. They won the Essex Senior League for a second time in 2004–05, and were promoted to Division One East of the Southern League, which Enfield were also members of. They finished third in their first season in the Southern League, qualifying for the play-offs, where they were beaten 3–1 after extra time in the semi-finals by Wivenhoe Town. In the summer of 2006 the club were transferred to Division One North of the Isthmian League. The 2006–07 season saw them finish third again, but they lost 4–2 to

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in the play-off semi-finals. At the end of the season Enfield were liquidated and Enfield Town chairman Paul Millington released a statement suggesting that the two clubs should merge and "return the name of Enfield to the top of the non-league world". However, the Enfield players, officials and supporters rejected the offer and formed a brand new club named Enfield 1893. Enfield Town qualified for the play-offs again in 2009–10 after finishing fourth. However, after beating Wingate & Finchley 3–2 in the semi-finals, they lost 3–1 in the final to Concord Rangers. In 2011–12 they were runners-up in the division and went on to win the play-offs with a 1–0 win over

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in the final, earning promotion to the Premier Division. At the start of the 2012–13 season the club won the

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, defeating

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3–1. They retained it the following season, beating YB SK Beveren of Belgium 8–2. In 2016–17 they finished fourth in the Isthmian League Premier Division before losing 4–2 to

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in the play-off semi-finals. The 2018–19 season saw the club win the Isthmian League's League Cup, beating

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2–0 in the final.

Ground

Enfield Town's Queen Elizabeth Stadium 2017 (1)

Enfield Town's Queen Elizabeth Stadium 2017 (2)

The club originally played at

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' Goldsdown Road ground, and were later joined by Enfield 1893. In October 2008, Enfield Council announced a deal with the club allowing the club to relocate to the Queen Elizabeth Stadium, close to Enfield's old Southbury Road ground. At the end of the 2009–10 season the club was awarded a grant of £81,504 by the Football Stadium Improvement Fund towards the first phase of works on the new ground. They left Goldsdown Road at the end of the 2010–11 season, taking with them much of the ground's infrastructure, which resulted in Enfield 1893, who had won the Essex Senior League, not being able to take promotion to the Isthmian League as the ground no longer met the league's standards. After spending the first few months of the 2011–12 season groundsharing at the Cheshunt Stadium in

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, they moved into the

in November 2011, with the first match being a victory against Harefield United in the

Middlesex Senior Cup The Middlesex Senior Cup is the most prestigious football cup competition in the historic county of Middlesex, England. The competition is run mainly for non-League clubs in the region, although league clubs have been known to enter the compe ...

on 9 November.Enfield Town FC get £6m Queen Elizabeth Stadium off to a winning start
Enfield Independent, 11 November 2011 The ground was officially opened with a friendly match against

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on 16 November, a game which saw the club's record attendance of 969.

Club officials

Managerial history

Other teams

Reserves

The club set up a reserve side in time for the 2006–07 season and joined the Eastern Division of the Capital League. The club's U21 team play in the Isthmian League's U21 North Division.

Women's team

The club also have a women's team, who play in the

FA Women's National League The FA Women's National League, formerly WFA National League and FA Women's Premier League (WPL), is a group of six football divisions run by the English Football Association. Founded in 1991 by the Women's Football Association, the League includ ...

Honours

*Isthmian League **League Cup winners 2018–19 *Essex Senior League **Champions 2002–03, 2004–05 **League Cup winners 2001–02, 2003–04 *Cherry Red Books Trophy **Winners 2001–02 *Middlesex Charity Cup **Winners 2001–02, 2007–08 *Supporters Direct Cup ** Winners 2006–07 (joint), 2011–12, 2012–13 * George Ruffell Memorial Shield **Winners 2009–10

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: Fourth qualifying round, 2015–16 *Best

FA Trophy The Football Association Challenge Trophy, commonly known as the FA Trophy, is a men's football knockout cup competition run by and named after the English Football Association and competed for primarily by semi-professional teams. The compet ...

performance: Third qualifying round, 2012–13 *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: Third round, 2003–04, 2004–05 *Record attendance: 969 vs

, friendly match, November 2011Town aiming for big Easter crowd
Enfield Town F.C. *Biggest victory: 7–0 vs Ilford, 29 April 2003Mike Williams & Tony Williams (2016) ''Non-League Club Directory 2017'', Tony Williams Publications, p322 *Most appearances: Rudi Hall *Most goals: Liam Hope, 108 (2009–2015)Hope says farewell to Town
Enfield Today, 2 June 2015

References

External links

Official website
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