Northwood F.C.
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| Full name | Northwood Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Woods |
| Founded | 1926 |
| Ground | Northwood Park, Chestnut Avenue, Northwood |
| Capacity | 3,075 (308 seated) |
| Chairman | Ian Barry |
| Manager | Mark Burgess (player-manager) |
| League | Southern League Division One Central |
| 2015–16 | Southern League Division One Central, 7th |
Northwood Football Club is an English football club based in Northwood in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The club is affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association. They play their home games at Northwood Park, also known as Chestnut Avenue – the road on which the ground is located. The club will play in the Southern Football League Division One Central for the 2016–17 season having finished 7th in the previous campaign.
Their current manager is former Northwood player Mark Burgess, who took the job following the departure of Gary Meakin in November 2012.
A club in the Northwood area was established in 1899, however Northwood as they are today were not believed to have been formed until 1926. Their early history is largely unknown and it is unclear what leagues they played in until 1931, when they joined the Harrow & Wembley League. They were champions of this league for six years in a row just prior to World War II and three more times after the war. This success did not last, however, and the 1950s and 1960s were mainly spent playing local junior-level football. In 1969 the Woods joined the Middlesex County Senior League. Northwood began life as Northwood Rovers and later United, but after The Second World War they dropped the suffix, to become what they are today – simply Northwood FC.
In 1978, Northwood won the Middlesex League Championship and were able to step up to the Hellenic League Division One, which they won in their debut season. This led to promotion to the Premier Division, where they spent five, mostly mid-table, seasons.
The club moved across the pyramid in 1984 to the London Spartan League, which was renamed back to the Spartan League in 1992. In an eight-season spell, Northwood finished in the top three on four occasions, culminating with the Premier Division title in the 1991–92 season, leading to admission to the Isthmian League in 1992. In 1994, the club progressed to the final of the Middlesex Senior Charity Cup but were beaten by Staines Town.
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