Swanley Furness F.C.

Danson Furness F.C. was a football club based in Swanley, England. They were formed as Danson (Bexley Borough) and were playing in the London Spartan League by 1983, entering the Kent League in 1987.[1] After a merger with Furness F.C. in 1991 they became Danson Furness United,[2] then after two seasons they changed it again to Furness.[3] They won the Kent League title in 1996 and changed their name to Swanley Furness in 1997.[4] In 1998, they dropped to Division Two of the Kent League due to the absence of floodlights. They later changed their name to Danson Furness and then left the Kent League in 2005 and folded.[5]

Furness had been founded originally in 1968 as the football club of Furness Withy Shipping Group playing in the London Shipping League. They were based at Brackley Road, Beckenham in Kent. After the company withdrew its support in 1982 the name "Withy" was dropped but the football club continued to progress in the South London Alliance which it had joined in 1973.

Danson played at Crook Log in Bexleyheath. After the merger, the club moved in with Alma Swanley F.C., sharing the ground at Greencourt Road in Crockenhill. Alma Swanley folded in 1994 whereupon Furness leased the ground on their own.

Action photo below by Mike Floate, Football Grounds Frenzy.

Furness v Cray Wanderers at Greencourt Road, November 1996

PReferences

  1. ↑ Danson (Bexley Borough) at the Football Club History Database
  2. ↑ Danson Furness United at the Football Club History Database
  3. ↑ Furness at the Football Club History Database
  4. ↑ Swanley Furness at the Football Club History Database
  5. ↑ Danson Furness at the Football Club History Database


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