Andover Town F.C.
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| Full name | Andover Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Town |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Ground | Portway Stadium, Andover |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Chairman | Stuart Barlow |
| Manager | Neil Benson |
| League | Wessex League Premier Division |
| 2016–17 | Wessex League Premier Division, 13/22 |
Andover Town F.C. is a football club based in Andover, Hampshire, established in 2013. The club competes in the Wessex League Premier Division, the ninth tier of English football.
The club was formed in 2013 when the new leaseholders of the Portway Stadium, Sparsholt and Andover Colleges, were accepted into the Wessex Football League.
Andover Town FC also has a youth side playing in the Division E of the Football Conference Youth Alliance League, Division 2 of the Hampshire County Youth Football League and the FA Youth Cup. The youth side is made up of students from both Sparsholt College and Andover College, with home fixtures often played at Sparsholt College Hampshire.
On the 9 October 2013, Andover Town was involved in a Hampshire Senior Cup tie at Brockenhurst. After the match finished 0–0 after extra time, the subsequent penalty shootout resulted in 29 consecutive goals being scored, with Brockenhurst winning 15–14. This was later confirmed by the Football Association as an English record (and possibly a world record) for the highest number of consecutive goals scored in a penalty shootout.
At the end of their first season Andover Town finished second in Wessex League Division One and were promoted to the Wessex Premier Division for the 2014–15 season. They also finished as runners-up in the Andover Open Cup, losing on penalties to Otterbourne FC (having drawn 3–3 after extra-time) and went on the become the winners of the Salisbury Hospitals Cup, defeating Bemerton Heath Harlequins in the final 3–2.
Andover Town ended the season on 73 points, winning 23 of the 30 games, drawing four and losing three games. In the 30 games played Andover scored 108 goals, with Michael Dixon being their top goalscorer with 34 goals in 29 games. Town also ended the season with fewest goals conceded, only conceding 28 goals, with goalkeeper Michael Weatherall keeping 13 clean sheets.
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