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Dorchester Town F.C.
Dorchester Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Dorchester, Dorset, England, currently playing in the Southern League Premier Division South.
The club is an FA chartered standard club affiliated with the Dorset County Football Association. The home venue is the Avenue Stadium, on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The club was a founder member of the Conference South in 2004, from which it was relegated in 2014.
The history of the club can be traced back to 1871, but the club in its current format was founded (reformed) on Monday 18 October 1880 as Dorchester Football Club. Dorchester were Dorset Senior Cup finalists in 1888 and 1890 before joining the Dorset League in 1896. The club struggled for many year's due to the importance of the town's market impacting player availability on Saturday's and in 1908/09 the club imposed a policy of only playing fellow Dorchester teams and visiting military teams. This policy lasted for one season before Dorchester FC, Dorchester Wanderers, Dorchester United, Dorchester Athletic and Dorchester Rovers football club's all merged together to create The Dorchester Town Football Club on 26 August 1910. Despite being founder members of the Dorset league, the club had little success before winning the championship in 1937/38 with a 2–0 victory at Sherborne on 25 April 1938.
The club joined the Western League in 1947, winning promotion from Division Two in 1950, and going on to take the league championship in 1954/55. The fifties proved to be a successful decade for the Magpies, winning the Dorset Senior Cup for the first time, and having a number of good runs in the FA Cup, facing the likes of Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers, Port Vale and Plymouth Argyle. In 1954, Dorchester reached the 2nd Round before eventually losing out to York City in front of 5,500 fans at the old Avenue ground. York went on to reach the semi-finals.
Following four more victories in the Dorset Senior Cup, the club entered the Southern League (Division One South) in 1972. They first tasted success in this division when they finished runners-up to Margate in 1977/78, going unbeaten in the final 16 matches of the season, with manager David Best utilizing his links with his old club AFC Bournemouth to attract former first-teamers such as John O'Rourke, Jack Howarth, and Harry Redknapp to the Avenue.
The formation of the Alliance League (now the Football Conference) unfortunately meant the Magpies returned to the reformed Southern Division a year later, but the club celebrated its centenary by winning the Southern Division in 1979/80 by a one-point margin over Aylesbury. Stuart Bell succeeded David Best as manager during the season, and the Magpies went unbeaten in the last 14 games to clinch the title. A young Trevor Senior impressed alongside ever-present top scorer Paul Thorne, whilst Graham Roberts joined neighbours Weymouth early in the campaign for £6,000 before going on to star for Tottenham Hotspur and England.
Senior stayed with Dorchester for a further two seasons, before signing for Portsmouth during the 1981/82 season for £35,000, going on to play for Watford, Middlesbrough and Reading, where he broke the Berkshire club's all-time goalscoring record. Before leaving the Magpies, Senior helped the club reach the 2nd Round of the FA Cup again before losing out to AFC Bournemouth in a replay at Dean Court in front of a crowd of 8,700. A goal four minutes from the end of extra time was enough to end Dorchester's dreams of a place in the third round – a feat they have still yet to achieve.
Relegated at the end of the 1983/84 season following a severe financial crisis, the club only just avoided dropping out of the league altogether the following year. However, a remarkable turnaround followed, and Dorchester returned to the Premier Division as champions at the end of the 1986/87 season, taking the title following a goalless draw at runners-up Ashford on the final day of the season.
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Dorchester Town F.C.
Dorchester Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Dorchester, Dorset, England, currently playing in the Southern League Premier Division South.
The club is an FA chartered standard club affiliated with the Dorset County Football Association. The home venue is the Avenue Stadium, on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The club was a founder member of the Conference South in 2004, from which it was relegated in 2014.
The history of the club can be traced back to 1871, but the club in its current format was founded (reformed) on Monday 18 October 1880 as Dorchester Football Club. Dorchester were Dorset Senior Cup finalists in 1888 and 1890 before joining the Dorset League in 1896. The club struggled for many year's due to the importance of the town's market impacting player availability on Saturday's and in 1908/09 the club imposed a policy of only playing fellow Dorchester teams and visiting military teams. This policy lasted for one season before Dorchester FC, Dorchester Wanderers, Dorchester United, Dorchester Athletic and Dorchester Rovers football club's all merged together to create The Dorchester Town Football Club on 26 August 1910. Despite being founder members of the Dorset league, the club had little success before winning the championship in 1937/38 with a 2–0 victory at Sherborne on 25 April 1938.
The club joined the Western League in 1947, winning promotion from Division Two in 1950, and going on to take the league championship in 1954/55. The fifties proved to be a successful decade for the Magpies, winning the Dorset Senior Cup for the first time, and having a number of good runs in the FA Cup, facing the likes of Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers, Port Vale and Plymouth Argyle. In 1954, Dorchester reached the 2nd Round before eventually losing out to York City in front of 5,500 fans at the old Avenue ground. York went on to reach the semi-finals.
Following four more victories in the Dorset Senior Cup, the club entered the Southern League (Division One South) in 1972. They first tasted success in this division when they finished runners-up to Margate in 1977/78, going unbeaten in the final 16 matches of the season, with manager David Best utilizing his links with his old club AFC Bournemouth to attract former first-teamers such as John O'Rourke, Jack Howarth, and Harry Redknapp to the Avenue.
The formation of the Alliance League (now the Football Conference) unfortunately meant the Magpies returned to the reformed Southern Division a year later, but the club celebrated its centenary by winning the Southern Division in 1979/80 by a one-point margin over Aylesbury. Stuart Bell succeeded David Best as manager during the season, and the Magpies went unbeaten in the last 14 games to clinch the title. A young Trevor Senior impressed alongside ever-present top scorer Paul Thorne, whilst Graham Roberts joined neighbours Weymouth early in the campaign for £6,000 before going on to star for Tottenham Hotspur and England.
Senior stayed with Dorchester for a further two seasons, before signing for Portsmouth during the 1981/82 season for £35,000, going on to play for Watford, Middlesbrough and Reading, where he broke the Berkshire club's all-time goalscoring record. Before leaving the Magpies, Senior helped the club reach the 2nd Round of the FA Cup again before losing out to AFC Bournemouth in a replay at Dean Court in front of a crowd of 8,700. A goal four minutes from the end of extra time was enough to end Dorchester's dreams of a place in the third round – a feat they have still yet to achieve.
Relegated at the end of the 1983/84 season following a severe financial crisis, the club only just avoided dropping out of the league altogether the following year. However, a remarkable turnaround followed, and Dorchester returned to the Premier Division as champions at the end of the 1986/87 season, taking the title following a goalless draw at runners-up Ashford on the final day of the season.