Woodford Town F.C.


Woodford Town Football Club is a football club based in Woodford in the London Borough of Redbridge. They are currently members of the and play at the Harlow Arena in Harlow, groundsharing with Harlow Town.

History

The club was formed in 2007 by a merger of Mauritius Sports and Walthamstow Avenue & Pennant and were initially named Mauritius Sports & Pennant. Mauritius Sports had been established in 2000 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. 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 Middlesex County League in 2003.
The new club were accepted into the Essex Senior League for the 2007–08 season. 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 in 2016. The 2017 part of the name was dropped in 2019.

Ground

The club played at Waltham Forest's Wadham Lodge ground in Walthamstow until 2011, when they moved to Coles Park in Haringey to groundshare with Haringey Borough. In 2016 they moved to the Terence McMillan stadium in Newham 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 are set to move to a new ground in Woodford at Ashton Playing Fields for in 2019.

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