Grays Athletic F.C.
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| Full name | Grays Athletic Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Gravelmen, The Ath, The Blues |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Ground | Mill Field Aveley, Thurrock (Groundshare with Aveley F.C.) |
| Capacity | 4,000(400 seated) |
| Manager | Jamie Stuart |
| League | Isthmian League Premier Division |
| 2015–16 | Isthmian League Premier Division, 15th |
Grays Athletic Football Club is an English football club that represents the town of Grays, although they play in the neighbouring town of Aveley after leaving the New Recreation Ground at the end of the 2009–10 season. The club is currently a member of the Isthmian League Premier Division.
Grays Juniors were founded in 1890 as an amateur club, rising through the ranks to senior status, before merging with former Southern League club Grays United to form Grays Athletic. The newly formed club joined the Grays & District League Division. Other teams competing in Grays at the time were Grays Amateurs, Grays Avenue Swifts, Grays Hotspurs and Grays Wednesday – with whom they shared the Recreation Ground pitch.
Grays Athletic became founder members of the Athenian League, in which they briefly played before World War I (1912–1914, and again since 1958). In 1945 they were one of the nine founder members of the Corinthian League, which they won that first season.
After playing in the Isthmian League between 1983 and 2004, they were founder members of the new Conference South. They were divisional champions at the first attempt, and also won the FA Trophy. In the 2005–06 season, they took an early lead in the Conference National, remaining unbeaten for a record equalling 15 games, but eventually finished in third place and were beaten in the semi-finals of the promotion play-offs by Halifax Town. They did, however, successfully retain the FA Trophy with a 2–0 win over Woking.
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