Steyning Town F.C.
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| Full name | Steyning Town Community Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Reds / Town / the Barrowmen |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Ground | The Shooting Field, Steyning |
| Chairman | Richard Woodbridge |
| Manager | Gerry Murphy |
| League | Southern Combination Division One |
| 2016–17 | Southern Combination Division One, 6/18 |
Steyning Town Community Football Club is a football club based in Steyning, England. The club is an FA chartered community club, affiliated to the Sussex County Football Association. The club are currently members of the Southern Combination Division One and play at the Shooting Field.
The club was established in 1892, and were originally called Steyning. The club became founding members of the West Sussex Football League in 1896, joining the junior Division.
The club joined Division Two of the Brighton, Hove & District Football League for the 1919–20 season. The club remained in division two until the end of the 1933–34 season, when they finished as champions and gained promotion to Division one. The club spent three seasons in the top division of the league before being relegated, but they finished as champions two seasons later in the 1938–39 campaign,but were not promoted.
After the second World War, the club was still playing in Division Two of the Brighton & Hove league. The club remained in this division until the end of the 1951–52 campaign when they gained promotion to Division one. The 1963–64 camapign saw the club leave division one, when after finishing as runners-up, they gained promotion to Division two of the Sussex County League.
For the next 17 seasons Steyning stayed in Division Two of the Sussex County league, until they gained promotion as champions, to Division One at the end of the 1977–78 campaign. After their first season in Division one the club in 1979, they changed their name to their present one. The next season then saw the club make their debut in the FA Cup, where they met Sutton United, in the first qualifying round, but lost 3–1. In the 1984–85 season, they reached the Quarter Finals of the FA Vase, but managed to claim silverware when they won the Division One title for the first time. In the following seasons the club retained the league title and completed a treble by winning the Sussex Senior Challenge Cup and league cup.
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