Colden Common Football Club is a football club based in Otterbourne, near Winchester, Hampshire, England. The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association.[1] The club is an FA Charter Standard club.[2] The club are currently members of the Hampshire Premier League Senior Division.
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| Full name | Colden Common Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Commoners | |
| Founded | 1898 (re-formed 1956) | |
| Ground | Oakwood Park, SO21 2ED Otterbourne | |
| Chairman | Steve Davenport | |
| Manager | Connor Doswell & Nathan Morgan | |
| League | Hampshire Premier League Senior Division | |
| 2022–23 | Hampshire Premier League Senior Division, 1st of 17 | |
| Website | Club website | |
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History edit
The club was founded in 1898 and re-formed in 1956, supported by the Banford family. Their Sunday league team, started in 1973, won numerous trophies before moving into Saturday football,[3] and by the 1986–87 season had progressed to Hampshire League Division One. In 1992, they won the Hampshire League championship, a feat repeated in 1996,[4] and won the Southampton Senior Cup in 1994.[5] When the Hampshire League was reorganised in 1999, the club was placed in the Premier Division, at what was then level 9 of the English football league system, but was administratively relegated two years later because the ground failed to meet Premier Division standards.[4]
In 2004, they won the "double" of the Division One title, thus earning promotion to the Wessex League, and Hampshire Intermediate Cup.[6][7] Unable to apply for admission to Wessex League Division Two because of the requirement for floodlights,[8] Colden Common were placed in Division Three, and went on to win the division title. Having finished their programme, it was still possible for Hayling United to overtake them by winning their last four games with a 19-goal swing,[9] but they were unable to do so.[4] In 2007, they withdrew from the Wessex League, because their inability to develop their home ground made it impossible for them to progress up the leagues, and joined the Hampshire Premier League.[10] They won their second consecutive Hampshire Premier League title in 2010.[11]
2021-22 brought The Stallions the Hampshire Premier League Senior Division title with a late penalty scored by Ben White away at Hayling United in their final game of the season to earn a 1-1 draw and the title-winning point, with CCFC becoming the first team to have won the Hampshire Premier League Senior Division three times. In 2022-23, Colden Common defended their league title with two games to play, completing the 'treble' of league title, the HPFL League Cup, and the Hampshire FA Saturday Trophy (formerly the 'Intermediate Cup').
Ground edit
Colden Common play their home games at Oakwood Park Recreational Ground, Oakwood Avenue, Otterbourne, SO21 2ED.[12]
Notable former players edit
England international Steve Guppy played for Colden Common at the beginning of his career, before joining Wycombe Wanderers.[13][14]
Honours edit
League honours edit
- Wessex League Division Three[4]
- Winners (1): 2003–04
- Hampshire Premier League[15]
- Winners (4): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2021-2022, 2022-23
- Hampshire League[4]
- Winners (2): 1991–92, 1995–96
- Hampshire League Division One[4]
- Winners (1): 2004–05
Cup honours edit
- Hampshire FA Saturday Trophy[4]
- Winners (1): 2022-23
- Southampton Senior Cup[15]
- Winners (1): 1993–94
- Andover Senior Cup[15]
- Winners (1): 2002–03
- Hampshire Intermediate Cup Final[16]
- Winners (2): 2012–13, 2022-23
- Hampshire Premier League Cup[17]
- Winners (1): 2012–13
References edit
- ^ OFFICIAL LEAGUE HANDBOOK 2011–12 Hampshire Premier League
- ^ "Clubs". HampshireFA. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ "A Colden Common History". Colden Common F.C. Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g COLDEN COMMON at the Football Club History Database
- ^ "Southampton D.F.A. Competition Winners – Senior (Saturday) Cup". Southampton Division Football Association. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "Hampshire League: Riddell takes his Common side to the top". Daily Echo. Southampton. 19 April 2004. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "Victories for the Common people ..." Daily Echo. Southampton. 26 April 2004. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "VT step up to the Wessex". Daily Echo. Southampton. 20 May 2004. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "Sydenhams Wessex League – Division 3: Fleetlands 1, Colden Common 1". Daily Echo. Southampton. 28 April 2005. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ "Common optimism". Daily Echo. Southampton. 1 August 2007. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Steele, Ian (9 May 2010). "Colden Common clinch title". NonLeague24. Retrieved 4 March 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "COLDEN COMMON PLAYERS". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Lamont, Ian (19 September 2002). "O'Neill's faith rewarded by Guppy" (reprint). The Times. NewsBank. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Doogan, Brian (1 December 2002). "Guppy answers his true calling". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ a b c "Colden Common F.C. – Main Page". Coldencommonfc.co. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ "Common bag another trophy (From Hampshire Chronicle)". Hampshirechronicle.co.uk. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ "Colden comeback takes trophy (From Daily Echo)". Dailyecho.co.uk. 5 May 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.