A.F.C. Aldermaston
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| Full name | Association Football Club Aldermaston |
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| Nickname(s) | The Atom Men |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Ground | AWE Recreational Society, Aldermaston |
| Chairman | Martin Desay |
| Manager | Kieran Jennings |
| League | Hellenic League Division One East |
| 2015–16 | Thames Valley Premier League Premier Division, 7th (promoted) |
A.F.C. Aldermaston is a football club based in Aldermaston, Berkshire, England. The club is affiliated to the Berks & Bucks Football Association, and currently play in the Hellenic League Division One East. The club has played at AWE Aldermaston (on the Hampshire–Berkshire border) since its establishment in 1952.
The club motto, Facta Non Verba, comes from a Latin phrase meaning "deeds, not words".
The club was founded as AWRE Football Club in 1952 by Charles Green, Ted Hall, Gordon Carter, and Don Sharp, and were nicknamed "the Atom Men" after the newly founded Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. As the AWRE complex was still under construction when the club was established, the players used empty contractors' huts as changing rooms – carrying the tin bath into whichever building was designated for that day's football. The players were also responsible for the pitch, and would mow and mark out the pitch before the match started. The club received support from William Penney during his work at AWRE on the Operation Hurricane project.
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, the club was asked to change its name, and became AFC Aldermaston. In 1979 they were promoted from the Reading & District League into Division One of the Hellenic League, where they spent the next seven seasons. From 1986 until 1991 the club played in local football leagues, including the North Hampshire League, before joining Division Three of the Hampshire League in 1991. They finished fifth in their first season, earning promotion to Division Two. However, they were relegated back to Division Three the following season, where they remained until 1999. Upon reorganisation of the Hampshire League prior to the 1999–2000 season, Aldermaston were placed in the Premier Division.
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