Haringey Borough Football Club is a

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club based in

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in the

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, England. Formed in 1973 by a merger of Edmonton and Wood Green Town, they are currently members of the and play at Coles Park.

History

The club was established in 1973 by a merger of

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and Haringey Borough (formerly Wood Green Town), and was initially named Edmonton & Haringey.Senior History
Haringey Borough F.C. The new club took Edmonton's place in Division One of the

Athenian League The Athenian League was an English amateur football league for clubs in and around London. The league was originally to be called the Corinthian League,Athenian Football League minutes 1912-1921 (National Football Museum, Preston). but this nam ...

, and adopted their current name after finishing bottom of the division in 1975–76. The league was reduced to a single division in 1977 and the club finished bottom of the league in 1981–82. When the Athenian League was disbanded at the end of the 1983–84 season, Haringey joined Division Two North of the Isthmian League. With many of the players and the management team leaving shortly before the start of the 1988–89 season, the club dropped out of the league, before joining the Premier Division of the Spartan League for the 1989–90 season. In 1990–91 the club won the

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. In 1995 they were renamed Tufnell Park, taking the name of one of the clubs that had merged to form Edmonton, but reverted to the Haringey Borough name the following year. When the Spartan League merged with the

South Midlands League The South Midlands League was a football league covering Bedfordshire and some adjoining counties in England. It was founded in 1922 as the Bedfordshire County League and merged with the Spartan League in 1997 to form the Spartan South Midland ...

in 1997 to form 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, ...

, the club were placed in Premier Division South for the 1997–98 season; a seventh-place finish saw them placed in the Premier Division for the following season. Haringey were relegated to Division One at the end of the 2006–07 season, which had seen them finish bottom of the Premier Division. However, they were Division One runners-up the following season, earning an immediate promotion back to the Premier Division; the season also saw them win the Division One Cup. In 2011–12 the club won the league's Challenge Trophy. At the end of the season they were transferred to the

Essex Senior League The Essex Senior Football League is an English men's football league. It contains clubs from the Essex FA, Hertfordshire FA, London FA, Middlesex FA and the Amateur Football Alliance. It is a feeder league to Division One North of the Isthm ...

, where their Coles Park tenants Greenhouse London also played. The 2014–15 season saw the club win the Essex Senior League, earning promotion to Division One North of the Isthmian League. In 2016–17 Haringey finished fifth in Division One North, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. However, they lost 5–4 to Maldon & Tiptree in the semi-finals. The club finished fourth in the division the following season, and after beating

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2–0 in the semi-finals, they won the final 3–1 against

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to secure promotion to the Premier Division. The 2018–19 season saw the club reach the first round of the

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for the first time, going on to lose 1–0 at home to

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. In October 2019, the Haringey players left the pitch during an FA Cup fourth qualifying round game against Yeovil Town after the Haringey goalkeeper, Valery Pajetat, was reportedly spat at and hit by an object thrown from the Yeovil Town end. The

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announced their intention to investigate the incident.

Ground

The club have played at Coles Park since their establishment; the ground had been home to Wood Green Town since 1930. The ground currently has a capacity of 2,500, of which 280 is seated. A new record attendance was set on 16 December 2017 when a crowd of 1,133 saw Haringey lose 2–1 to

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in their first appearance in the first round of the

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.Leyton Orient come from behind to dump brave Haringey Borough out of the FA Trophy
East London Advertiser, 16 December 2017 This was bettered on 9 November 2018 for the FA Cup first round match with AFC Wimbledon, which had an attendance of 2,710. On 23 March 2019, a record league attendance of 875 was set for a 3–1 win over local rivals

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. The ground was one of the venues used for the 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup. Prior to the 2018–19 season, Hashtag United began groundsharing at Coles Park.

Honours

*Essex Senior Football League **Champions 2014–15 *Spartan South Midlands League **Challenge Trophy winners 2011–12 **Division One Cup winners 2007–08 *London Senior Cup **Winners 1990–91

Records

*Best

performance: First round, 2018–19 *Best

performance: First round, 2017–18 *Best

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performance: Quarter-finals, 1977–78 *Record attendance: 2,710 vs

, FA Cup first round, 9 November 2018Haringey Borough 0–1 AFC Wimbledon
BBC Sport, 9 November 2018

Women's team

The club's women's team was established in 1999, joining the

Eastern Region Women's Football League The Eastern Region Women's Football League is at the fifth and sixth levels of the English women's football pyramid, with the seven other Regional Leagues – London & SE, Southern, South West, East Mids, West Mids, North East and North West ...

. They were Division Two runners-up and then Division One runners-up, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Although the team were relegated to Division One South at the end of the 2011–12 season, they were promoted back to the Premier Division at the first attempt. They were league champions in 2016–17.Premier Division
FA Full Time

References

External links

Official website
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