Kings Langley F.C.

Kings Langley Football Club are a semi-professional association football club in the village and civil parish of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England. The club have spent the majority of their history in the Hertfordshire County League, they joined the Spartan South Midlands Football League in 2001, winning the Premier Division in the 2015-16 season and are currently members of the Southern League Premier Division - the seventh tier of the English football league system, following a third consecutive promotion in 2016 when they became champions of the Southern League Division One South. In doing so, Kings Langley join Truro F. C. , Chester F. C. , F. C. United of Manchester and Gretna F. C. as the only clubs in the United Kingdom with three or more successive promotions. They are also unofficially the highest-ranked village football club in England. HistoryKings Langley Football Club was founded in 1886, with the village doctor, Frederick Fisher, as its first Chairman. Founder members of the West Herts League in the 1891–92 season, Kings Langley also won the St. Mary’s Cup in front of 3, 500 people at the Watford Recreation Ground that season, retaining it the next year and losing the final on a replay the year after that. Early grounds included Groomes Meadow, Blackwell Meadow, and Kings Langley Common, and although it has been stated that the club did not settle at Home Park until 1913, the ground is known to have hosted a 1898–99 match against Hemel Hempstead Town in front of 300 spectators.

Kings Langley Football Club are a semi-professional association football club in the village and civil parish of Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England. The club have spent the majority of their history in the Hertfordshire County League, they joined the Spartan South Midlands Football League in 2001, winning the Premier Division in the 2015-16 season and are currently members of the Southern League Premier Division - the seventh tier of the English football league system, following a third consecutive promotion in 2016 when they became champions of the Southern League Division One South. In doing so, Kings Langley join Truro F. C. , Chester F. C. , F. C. United of Manchester and Gretna F. C. as the only clubs in the United Kingdom with three or more successive promotions. They are also unofficially the highest-ranked village football club in England. HistoryKings Langley Football Club was founded in 1886, with the village doctor, Frederick Fisher, as its first Chairman. Founder members of the West Herts League in the 1891–92 season, Kings Langley also won the St. Mary’s Cup in front of 3, 500 people at the Watford Recreation Ground that season, retaining it the next year and losing the final on a replay the year after that. Early grounds included Groomes Meadow, Blackwell Meadow, and Kings Langley Common, and although it has been stated that the club did not settle at Home Park until 1913, the ground is known to have hosted a 1898–99 match against Hemel Hempstead Town in front of 300 spectators.