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Football club
Chesham Town
Nickname(s)the Amber and Blacks
Founded1879
Dissolved1917
GroundNew Road
Home colours

Chesham Town Football Club was an English football club from Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

History

Chesham and Waterside FC was founded by Rev Reade, curate of Christ Church, Chesham in 1879. The first game was against Amersham in October 1879. In 1894 it became founder members of the Southern League. It was renamed Chesham Town in 1899 and continued to play in the Southern League until 1904, when it finished 11th and bottom of the table.

After a successful 1907–08 season, in which the club won the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup and the Lowndes Challenge Cup, it re-entered the Southern League in 1908 - simultaneously taking part in the second division of the South-Eastern League, which the club won in 1908–09 - but left four years later to become founder members of the Athenian League. It left the Athenian at the end of the 1913–14 season to join the Great Western Suburban League.

In 1917 the club merged with Chesham Generals to form Chesham United, which is still in existence.

Colours

The club wore amber and black jerseys, black shorts, and black socks.

Ground

The club played at the New Road Ground.

References

  1. "A Retrospect". Bucks Examiner: 8. 6 May 1898.
  2. "Chesham Town Football Club". Bucks Herald: 6. 6 June 1908.
  3. "Chesham Town Football Club". Bucks Examiner: 3. 16 July 1909.
  4. "Great Western Suburban League, The radius Enlarged. Chesham Town Admitted". South Bucks Standard. 26 March 1914. p. 7.
  5. "Chesham United Football Club". Bucks Examiner: 3. 16 November 1917.
  6. "F. Halsall". Athletic News: 4. 14 April 1902.
  7. "Chesham Town Football Club". Bucks Examiner: 3. 16 July 1909.
  8. "Berks & Bucks Cup". Bucks Examiner: 8. 21 December 1906.

External links

  • Chesham at the Football Club History Database
  • Chesham Town at the Football Club History Database


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