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Sheerwater

Full name	Sheerwater Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Sheers
Founded	1958
Ground	Eastwood Centre
Capacity	600
Chairman	Chris Machay
Manager	TJ Barbato
League	Combined Counties League Premier Division South
2023–24	Combined Counties League Premier Division South, 19th of 20
Home colours Away colours

Sheerwater F.C. are a Non-League football club who are based in Sheerwater, in Woking, Surrey, England. They play their home fixtures at the Eastwood Centre and are members of the Combined Counties League Premier Division South.

History

The club was founded in 1958, by John French, and they began life as members of the Woking & District League. After achieving Intermediate status, they joined the Surrey County Intermediate League (Western) in 1967. The club was a founding member of the Home Counties League in 1978, which was renamed a year later to the Combined Counties League. They are currently members of the Combined Counties Premier Division.

The Jam played some of their early gigs at the clubhouse, before releasing their breakthrough song "In The City". Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler all went to Sheerwater Secondary School which is now called The David Brown Secondary School and is situated adjacent to Sheerwater Football Club.

The club has played in the Combined Counties League since the 2000s, although they did enjoy a brief spell in the Combined Counties in the early 1980s. For most of their time in the Combined Counties First Division, they have finished either mid-table or bottom of the league yet survived in this league due to a lack of suitable replacements from Step 7.

The club were the victim of a hoax in 2007 when investment into the club was promised but not delivered. The event could have spelt the end of the club, but they survived into the current decade.

Club Stalwart Trevor Wenden has been at the club in a number of different capacities since the 1970s.

Ground

Sheerwater played their home games at Woking Athletic Ground, Sheerwater Recreation Ground, Blackmore Crescent, Sheerwater, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5QJ until the end of the 2017/18 season. From August 2018 until the end of the 2020/21 season, The Sheers played their home games at the Kingfield Stadium, home to National League club Woking while their new Eastwood Centre ground, which houses a third generation artificial pitch and forms part of a multi-leisure facility, was being built in the grounds of Bishop David Brown School in Sheerwater.

The Sheers commemorated the official opening of Eastwood with a fixture against Woking on 24 July 2021, which resulted in a 3–0 home defeat. The ground has a capacity of 600 spectators.

Club Records

• Highest League Position:
  • 1st in Combined Counties League Division One: 2018–19
  • 4th in Combined Counties League Division One: 2017–18
  • 9th in Combined Counties League Division One: 2008–09, 2016–17,
  • 16th in Combined Counties League Premier Division: 2019–20
  • 10th in Combined Counties League Premier Division: 2020–21
  • 9th in Combined Counties League Premier Division: 2021–22
• FA VASE
  • 1st Round Proper: 2018-19 lost 6–0 away to Southall
• FA CUP
  • Extra Preliminary: 2019-20 lost 2–1 away to CB Hounslow

References

1. "SHEERWATER F.C. Football website provided by non-league.org web ring". non-league.org. Archived from the original on 4 December 2004.
2. "Football Club History Database - Sheerwater". fchd.info.

External links

• Official website
• Sheerwater at the Football Club History Database
• Information on Sheerwater FC given in Knaphill v Sheerwater Club Programme, April 2010)

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Towns, villages and hamlets	Brookwood Byfleet Castle Green Goldsworth Park Horsell Knaphill Mayford Mimbridge Old Woking Pyrford Sheerwater Sutton Green Westfield West Byfleet
Parks	Horsell Common Westfield Common Woking Park
Places of worship	All Souls' Church, Sutton Green Christ Church, Woking Church of St Andrew, Goldsworth Park Church of St. Edward the Martyr, Brookwood Church of St Mary the Virgin, Horsell St Dunstan's Church, Woking St John's Church, Woking St Mark's Church, Woking St Peter's Church, Old Woking Shah Jahan Mosque
Education	Bishop David Brown School Hoe Valley School St John the Baptist School, Woking Tante Marie The Winston Churchill School, Woking Woking College Woking High School
Transport	Brookwood railway station Byfleet & New Haw railway station West Byfleet railway station Woking railway station
Buildings and structures	Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Hospital Civic Offices Export House Kingfield Stadium McLaren Technology Centre Newark Priory New Victoria Theatre Rhoda McGaw Theatre Sutton Place Victoria Place Victoria Square Woking Crematorium
Sport	Football Knaphill F.C. Sheerwater F.C. Westfield F.C. Woking F.C. Hockey Woking Hockey Club
People	List of people from the Borough of Woking

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• Association football clubs established in 1958
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• Surrey County Intermediate League (Western)
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