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| Full name | Polytechnic Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Poly |
| Founded | 1873–75 |
| Ground | Polytechnic Stadium, London |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Chairman | Sean Harney |
| Manager | Geoff Brown |
| League | Southern Amateur League Senior Division 1 |
| 2015–16 | 1st (champions), Southern Amateur League Senior Division 1 |
Polytechnic Football Club, originally, Hanover United Football Club is a football club from Chiswick, West London, England. It is believed to be the first football club to use United in its name. The club is a full member of the Football Association, the Amateur Football Alliance and the Southern Amateur League, and is a FA charted Standard club. It was named "Polytechnic" after the former name of the current University of Westminster (The Royal Polytechnic Institution).
The club was originally established in 1873 or 1875, and was originally called Hanover United Football Club The club entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1879, entering the First round, where they met Grey Friars but lost 2–1. In 1892, under the name Polytechnic Football Club, the club became founder members of the Southern Alliance finishing fourth in the league's only year in existence. The FA Amateur Cup was also entered in 1895. The club played in the Southern Suburban League for a few seasons in the early 1900s before joining the Olympian League for the 1909–10 season.
The 1911–12 season then saw the club become members of the Spartan League. The club stayed in the top division until the end of the 1928–29 season when, finishing bottom, they were relegated to Division One. However, they were subsequently relegated the next season to Division Two East. The club returned to Division One at the end of the 1935–56 season, when they finished third in the division and remained there until the Second World War. After the war the club were placed in the Western Division. The league the following season was then returned to a top division with two division underneath and the club was placed in Division One Western after finishing sixth the year before. The 1951–52 season saw the club finish as runners-up in Division One Western and gain promotion back to the Premier Division. However again they could only last one season in the top division and, after finishing bottom, were relegated.
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