Bosham F.C.
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| Full name | Bosham Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Robins |
| Founded | 1901 |
| Ground | Walton Lane, Bosham |
| Chairman | Alan Price |
| Manager | Andy Probee |
| League | Southern Combination Division Two |
| 2015–16 | Southern Combination Division Two, 6th |
| Website | Club home page |
Bosham F.C. are a football club based in Bosham, near Chichester, West Sussex, England. The club are currently members of the Southern Combination Division Two and play at Walton Lane.
Bosham F.C. were formed in 1901 and played in the local football leagues before they joined the Sussex County Football League as founder members of Division Three in 1983. In their second season of the Sussex County Football league the club finished runners-up to Oakwood, winning promotion to Division Two and also winning the Division Three Challenge Cup.
The club remained in Division two for seven seasons when they were relegated back to Division Three at the end of the 1991–92 season. During this period the club made its debut in a national FA competition the FA Vase, when they entered for four seasons in a row from the 1986–87 season, never winning a single game. In the 1993–94 season, the club was promoted back again as champions – albeit a short-live success, as the following two seasons saw successive relegations back to the West Sussex Football League.
Following an overhaul of both players and management, Bosham enjoyed a resurgence on the pitch resulting in one of their most successful seasons ever in 1998–99, winning the coveted ‘treble’ of the West Sussex Football League Premier Division; Malcolm Simmonds Cup and the Centenary Cup – a feat no other club has achieved. This success enabled the club to re-join the Sussex County Football league again in Division Three.
The first season back in the Sussex County league saw Bosham champions of Division three once again, scoring 109 goals along the way – an average of 3.6 per game. The Robins found themselves bottom of Division two again two seasons after promotion and ‘yo-yoed’ back down to Division Three.
The club struggled back at Intermediate level, but a late revival saw them finish one place off the bottom, five points clear of Uckfield Town. Although a relegation position, the resignation of Oving – coupled with only Wadhurst United meeting the requirements for promotion – spared them the drop.
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