Andover

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Ground: The Portway Stadium, Portway Industrial Estate, Andover, SP10 3LF

Telephone: 01264 351302

Chairman: Tim Kynnersley

Secretary: Chris Jeremy

Manager: Ady Burford

Club History:

Andover Football Club were formed in 1883 and their first game was on the 27th October 1883. During the next 30-years the club won the Salisbury League seven times, the North Hants May League five times and reached the Hampshire Junior Cup final twice. The era between 1919 and 1945 brought two Hampshire League Championships and three Russell Cotes Cup wins.

After the Second World War, Andover carried on playing in the Hampshire League, winning the championship in 1949, 1951 and 1962, The Hampshire Senior Cup in 1949,1951 and 1956, The Russell Cotes Cup in 1953, 1959, 1961 and 1962 and the Pickford Cup in 1951.

After winning the Hampshire League in 1962, the club moved up into the Western League, reaching the F.A. Cup 1st round proper against Gillingham from the fourth division, losing 0-1 at the Walled Meadow.

Andover won the Hampshire Senior Cup in 1965, and finished in the runners up spot in the Western League in 1969/70 and 1970/71. Andover were promoted into the Southern League in 1971 and during the next 21-years struggled to compete, their best seasons being 1987/88 and 1991/92.

In 1989 the club moved to a new £850,000 stadium at The Portway, and in the 1999/2000 season had a new owner. The club gave notice to withdraw from the Southern League and apply to rejoin the Wessex League for the 1993/94 season. The Lions reached their eighth Hampshire Senior Cup final in the 1999/2000 season, losing to Aldershot Town.

The golden spell of 1951 was repeated in 2000/01 & 2001/02 with a hat trick of trophies in each season, claiming the Wessex League Championship twice, Hampshire Senior Cup, Russell Cotes Cup, Wessex League Cup and the North Hants Senior Cup.

After a summer of turmoil and change of ownership the season 2002/03 with a very young team saw the club do well, by finishing seventh in the league and winning the North Hants Senior Cup.

During the summer of 2003 the club was close to going out of existence, and twelve supporters of the club, who are professional people joined ranks and secured the future of this historic club. The 2003/04 season brought success in the F.A. Vase competition, reaching the quarterfinals for the first time in the clubs history. Andover also finished 6th in the league and won the North Hants Senior Cup for the 5th time. ">

Honours

F. A. Vase

Quarter Finalists 2004,

Hampshire Senior Cup

Winners 1949,1951, 1956, 1965, 2001

Finalists 1931, 1933, 1957, 2000

Russell Cotes Cup

Winners 1924, 1932,1938, 1945, 1959, 1961, 1962, 2002

Finalists 1926, 1935, 1942, 1949, 1952, 1954

Pickford Cup

Winners 1951

Hampshire Junior Cup

Winners 1920

Finalists 1894, 1911, 1913

Hampshire Intermediate Cup

Winners 1960, 1961

Hampshire League

Winners 1914, 1925, 1934, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1962

Runners Up 1907, 1956

Hampshire League Division Two

Winners 1962

Runners Up 1938

Salisbury & District League

Winners 1895, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1913, 1929

Runners Up 1920

North Hants May league

Winners 1899, 1901, 1902, 1908, 1909

Runners Up 1904, 1905, 1906

Hampshire Combination League

Winners 1988

North Hants Invitation Cup

Winners 1968

Finalists 1975

Andover Open Cup

Winners 1987, 1988

Finalists 1991

North Hants Senior Cup

Winners 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004

Finalists 2002

Jewson Wessex League

Winners 2001, 2002

Runners Up 1994, 1998

Jewson Wessex League Cup

Winners 2002

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