East Thurrock United F.C.
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| Full name | East Thurrock United Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Rocks |
| Founded | 27 April 1969 |
| Ground | Rookery Hill, Corringham |
| Capacity | 3,500 (160 seated) |
| Chairman | Brian Mansbridge |
| Manager | John Coventry |
| League | National League South |
| 2015–16 | Isthmian League Premier Division, 3rd (promoted via play-offs) |
East Thurrock United Football Club is a football club based in Corringham, Essex, England. They are currently members of the National League South and play at Rookery Hill.
The club was founded on 27 April 1969 by a group of fans who felt that the area around Corringham and Stanford-Le-Hope should have a senior non-league football club, following the successful Corringham Social Sunday league team. The new club played in the Southern Essex Combination for the 1969–70 season and finished third in the league, before joining the reserve section of the Greater London League in 1970. They went on to win the division at the first attempt. The league merged with the Metropolitan League at the end of the season to form the Metropolitan–London League, with East Thurrock remaining in the reserve division. After winning the division in 1971–72, they moved up to the senior divisions, joining Division Two. They also won this division at the first attempt and were promoted to Division One.
After the league merged with the Spartan League to form the London Spartan League in 1975, East Thurrock were placed in Division Two. They remained in Division Two until restructuring saw them moved into the Premier Division in 1978. In 1979 the club switched to the Essex Senior League. In 1988–89 they won the League Cup, a feat they repeated in 1991–92, a season that also saw them finish third in the league, earning promotion to Division Three of the Isthmian League. In 1999–2000 they were Division Three champions, earning promotion to Division Two. Two seasons later they were placed in Division One North upon league reorganisation, before being moved into the Eastern Division of the Southern League for the 2004–05 season as part of wider restructuring of the non-League pyramid. After finishing as Eastern Division runners-up in the first season, they were promoted and moved back to the Isthmian League, joining its Premier Division.
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