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Wiltshire Senior League
Wroughton FC
Club Formed: 1888
Club Nickname:
Chairman: Kevin Cook
Club Contact Details
Secretary: Stuart Beggs
Email: stuart.beggs@labeyrie-fine-foods.com
Tel:
Mobile: 07515 007946

Manager:  Chris Flanagan
Email: flanners@hotmail.co.uk
Tel:   07539 734915
Club Social Media Details
Website:
Team Photo & Club Colours
 Fixtures and Results
Details of Home Ground
Name of Ground: The Weir Field
Ground Address: The Weir Field, Devizes Road, Wroughton, SN4 0SA

Ground Tel: (01793) 812319 (Wroughton Club)

 Match Day Programme?  No
Ground Directions: Ground is situated behind Wroughton Working Mens Club on Devizes Road, Wroughton.
Club History
Wroughton Football Club was formed in 1888 and in 1899 joined the re-formed Swindon & District League which had for a couple of years run only as a cup competition. Wroughton were one of twelve sides to start Season 1899-1900 in the re-formed league although three left before the season end. Wroughton finished in 7th place in that inaugural season. The Club remained in the Swindon & District League for the first half of the 20th century. First successes we have been able to trace came after the end of the First World War with Season 1921-22 being a particularly successful one for the club as they won Division 2 of the Swindon & District League and also lifted the Swindon Junior Cup.

Season 1936-37 was an interesting one for Wroughton as they finished the season in Division 1 level on points with Cricklade Road Prims and High Street Workmen. With goal average nor goal difference applying the management committee of the league decided that the three teams should play-off at the beginning of the following season with players registered for the Season 1936-37 and this would decide the championship. Wroughton won the delayed play-offs to take the league title.

After the Second World War, when the Swindon & District League reconvened, Wroughton found themselves in Division 2A and were to spend the post war period up until the mid-1960’s in the top two divisions of the Swindon & District League. During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s the Premier Division of the Swindon based league was dominated by a strong Highworth Town side who won the league nine times in eleven seasons and there were no championships for Wroughton.

Wroughton moved up to the Wiltshire League Division 1 (the second tier of football in the County) in Season 1967-68, finishing in 9th spot in a division of 14 sides which included the likes of Amesbury, Corsham Town, Malmesbury, Marlborough Town, Pewsey Vale and Purton. Following a re-organisation of football in the county, the following season Wroughton found themselves in the newly formed Football Combination alongside the top amateur sides in the county. In a division of 18 sides Wroughton struggled in the exalted company eventually finishing third from bottom in the inaugural season of the Combination. They climbed up to 12th the following season but that was as good as it got as they finished rock-bottom in Season 1970-71 to be relegated back to Division 1 of the Wiltshire League.

For a short two season period the club were members of the Hellenic League which they joined in 1972 from the Wiltshire League. They played in the newly formed Division 2 (the league’s 3rd tier) finishing in 5th spot but someway adrift of champions Walcot. The following season saw Division 2 merged with Division 1 and Wroughton found it a struggle in the newly enlarged division of 21 teams, eventually finishing in 16th spot in Season 1973-74. For the following season the decision was made to return to the Wiltshire League. The first season back saw a 10th place finish but a successful season in 1975-76, the last season of the old Wiltshire League, saw them finish up as runners-up in Division 1 to Garrad Athletic.

The formation of the new Wiltshire County League saw Wroughton classified as a Senior side and they started life in Division 2 of the new league. Wroughton spent their first eight seasons in the new league in the second division but a 3rd place finish in Season 1983-84 saw them promoted to the top division, helped by 21 goals that season from Nigel Mapstone. Mapstone was to finish top scorer in their first two seasons in the topflight, a credible top half finish in their first season unfortunately could not be matched in their following two seasons and they finished bottom of the table in Season 1986-87 and dropped down to Junior football for Season 1987-88.

After initially struggling in their first season back as a Junior side, Wroughton had a great second season. They kicked-off Season 1998-99 by winning their first 21 games before losing two on the bounce. This was to prove just a temporary loss of form as they won their last three games to win the Division 4 title by six points from Badbury, Wroughton’s Dave Lopez finished the season as the top scorer in the whole four divisions of the league with 40 goals. After such a great season disappointingly Wroughton were unable to remain in the league the following season, the first of three one season departures over the life of the league. 

Fortunately, they were only away for just a season returning to Division 2 as a Senior club in Season 1990-91 and what a season it turned out to be as they won the championship and promotion to Division 1 at the first attempt. They remained in the top division for a couple of seasons before returning to Division 2. Three seasons in the second tier came to an end at the conclusion of the 1995-96 Season when a 3rd place finish saw them promoted back to Division 1. They remained in the top division for seven seasons, with the division re-branded as the Premier Division in 1998-99. After two 3rd place finishes, Season 2003-4 saw them pull out of the league with their record expunged. 

Once again their absence was to be just one season, the club returning as a Junior side in 2004-5. Second season back saw them crowned champions of Division 1 with top striker Lee Curtis smashing 50 goals as they won 27 of their 28 league games to finish 21 points clear of second placed Pinehurst OB.  They also won the prestigious Wiltshire Junior Cup. The team took their form into the Premier Division, finishing as runners-up to Corsham Town Reserves in their first season back in the topflight. They went one better the following season when they took their first ever Wiltshire Senior League top division title in Season 2007-8. They dropped to 5th spot the following season and 9th the season after before two seasons of struggle at the wrong end of the table saw them once again pull out the league. 

Again, the absence was to be for just one season, and they have remained members of the Premier Division since Season2013-14, twice winning the league title. Season 2016-17 saw them finish six points clear of Shrewton United and Season 2018-19 saw them deny Kintbury Rangers a second successive title, the two sides also meeting in the Cup Final which Kintbury just edged. As well as the league titles Wroughton also lifted the league’s Senior Cup in both Season’s 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Wroughton were going well in both of the two seasons that in the end were curtailed due to Covid. In both Season 2019-20 and Season 2020-21 they sat in fourth position at the time the seasons were brought to an end and in the first of those two seasons Wroughton were unbeaten in their opening 15 games. Whilst the following season they were beaten twice they were still amongst the sides challenging for honours at the time the season was ended. Season 2021-22, the first completed season after Covid saw them start badly but an excellent second half of the season saw them eventually finish in tenth place.

Season 2022-23 was to prove to be one of mixed fortunes with Wroughton achieving a historic first ever appearance in the Wiltshire Senior Cup final, ultimately falling just short, losing to a strong Downton side who succesfully defended the cup they had won in Season 2021-22. In the league, whilst the top two of Trowbridge Town and Devizes Town were to finish over 20 points clear of the chasing pack, the battle for third spot was a lot more competitive with five sides,including Wroughton, battling it out going into the closing weeks of the season. In the end it was Pewsey who would secure that third-place finish.  Wroughton had looked the favourites to secure that third spot at one stage but following their history making first appearance in the Wiltshire County FA’s Senior Cup final their season fell away dramatically and saw them win just one of their last nine games, losing seven of them, to fall back to a final finish in seventh spot. They did have the consolation of having the division’s leading scorer with Jonathan Peachey-Score finding the net on 36 occasions in all competitions
 Wroughton 2022-23
 Wroughton 2021-22

Back row: Left to right Carlos Costa (assistant), Craig Jones (joint manager), Devon Mcalla, Jack Gibson, Ash Andrews, Daniel Murphy, Ben Jarrett (joint manager), Ian McDermid, Sam Long, Chris Flanagan, Lee Curtis (first team coach)

Front Row: Kyle Mouldon, Ollie Armstrong, Maxwell Cameron,Jamie Rathbone, Joshua Barnfield, Ollie While, Kristopher Redford

Wroughton 2020-21
Wroughton 2018-19
(picture John Cuthbertson)
Wroughton 2016-17
Wroughton 2015-16
Wroughton 2007-08
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