Stony Stratford Town F.C.
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| Full name | Stony Stratford Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Stony |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Ground | Ostler's Lane Stony Stratford |
| Capacity | 400 |
| Manager | Gary Nicholls |
| League |
Spartan South Midlands League Division One |
| 2014–15 |
Spartan South Midlands League Division One, 18th |
Stony Stratford Town F.C. is a football club based in Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England. The club is affiliated to the Berks & Bucks Football Association. For the 2014–15 season, the first team is a member of the Spartan South Midlands League Division One.
The club was formed in 1898, and started playing in the local leagues. The club also played in the Berks and Bucks Cup competitions winning the Junior cup in the 1908–09 campaign. More success followed after the first world war when the club went on to win the North Bucks & District Football League in the 1925–26 season.
After the Second World War the club now playing under the name Stony Stratford Sports won Division two of the North Bucks & District Football League in the 1946–47 competition. The club then moved leagues and joined the South Midlands League in Division one. In their second season in the South Midlands league the club finished as runners up and gained promotion to the Premier Division. The 1952–53 season sbegan with the club changing its name to Stony Stratford Town again, and the season ended with the club leaving the league and returning to the North Bucks & District Football League. The club then became champions of Division two again in the 1956–57 season.
The 1960–61 season, saw the club rejoin the South Midlands League again, starting in Division one where they finished runners-up at the first attempt and gained promotion to the Premier Division. The club then quickly followed this up the next season with another runners-up position. The club spent the next thirteen seasons in the Premier Division, during which time they finished as runners-up three times in a row in the 1970–71, 1971–72 and 1972–73 competitions. Their fourteenth season in the Premier division, 1974–75, saw the club finish bottom of the division and relegated to Division one. Further relegation followed the next season as the club finished bottom of Division One and relegated to the Premier Division of the Northamptonshire Combination Football League.
After just one season in the Northamptonshire Combination Football League, the club moved to the premier division of the North Bucks & District Football League for the start of the 1977–78 campaign. The 1987–88 season saw the club rejoin the South Midlands league again, in Division one. For the start of the 1993–94 season, the league was restructured and the club was placed in the third tier, Division one, however they were quickly back in the second tier, the Senior Division, when they became champions of Division one that season. In 1997 the South Midlands League merged with the London Spartan League to form the Spartan South Midlands Football league and the club was placed in the Senior Division of the new league. The 1997–98 season also saw the club make their debut in the FA Vase, where they lost to Bicester Town in the second qualifying round. The club has since remained in Division One of the Spartan South Midlands Football league.
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