Whitstable Town F.C.

Whitstable Town

Full name

Whitstable Town Football Club

Nickname(s)

The Oysterboys

Founded

1886

Ground

The Belmont Ground
Whitstable
Kent

Capacity

3,000

Chairman

Gary Johnson

Manager

Wayne Wilson & Ian Cox

League

Isthmian League Division One South

2015–16

Isthmian League Division One South, 23rd (Relegated)

Home colours

Away colours

Whitstable Town F.C. is a football club based in Whitstable, Kent, England. The club was established in 1885 and joined the Kent League in 1950. In the 1996–97 season, the team reached the 5th round of the FA Vase. They were champions of the Kent League Premier Division in the 2006–07 season and were promoted to the Isthmian League.

History

Whitstable (yellow shirts) take on Guildford City in a 2006 FA Cup tie

Although the first recorded football match in Whitstable was in 1885, the first record of Whitstable Town's existence was the following year. After a couple of years playing in a field behind the railway station, the club relocated to The Belmont Ground in 1888, where they play to this day.

In 1909 the Oystermen joined the original Kent League, where they played until it folded in 1959, winning the Division Two title three times. They also lifted the Kent Amateur Cup (now Kent Senior Trophy) in 1929. After the collapse of the Kent League, the club played for a while in the Aetolian League, but this meant long trips to play London teams as opposed to the earlier money-spinning East Kent derbies, and this was a period of financial struggle for the club, which dropped into the amateur leagues for a number of years.

In the late 1960s the Kent League reformed, with the Oystermen among the founder members. They also attracted national publicity in 1989 when striker Gerry Allen scored a goal after just 4 seconds of a match.

They had remained members of the Kent League until their promotion to the Isthmian League in 2007. The 2006–07 season marked the best in the club’s history when supporter Tony Rouse took over as chairman from long time servant of the club Joe Brownett. Rouse appointed first team captain Marc Seager as the club’s manager taking over from Matt Toms. Under Marc Seager’s leadership the team won the Kent League and the Kent Senior Trophy.

In 2012 former local referee Gary Johnson took over as chairman from Joe Brownett (after his second spell in the chair) who stepped down after many years at Whitstable Town.

Ground

Whitstable Town play their home games at The ‘Belmont Ground’, Belmont Road, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 1QP.

The Belmont Ground boasts a seated stand along one side as well as covered terracing behind each goal. Within the last ten years the dressing rooms and clubhouse have been completely refurbished, a new snack bar built and floodlights erected. Whitstable Town are the best supported Kent team in the Isthmian League South. Their major local rival is Herne Bay. When the two teams were most recently in the same league, their matches regularly attracted 400 or more fans. More recent matches against Margate in the FA Cup and Dover in the Isthmian League have attracted more than 1,000 supporters.

Current squad

Luke Doherty, Sam Bewick, Scott Punton, Dan Eason, Ben Kitcherside, Kieron Campbell, Ryan Perkins, Ira Jackson, Calum McGeehan, Ryan Cheek, Reiss Crimmen, Malachi Robinson, Kareem Boyle, Conner Heffernan, Cameron Heffernan

Honours

Thanet League Champions 1908-09, 1909-10, 1910-11
Faversham & District League 1922-23, 1923-24, 1937-38
Canterbury Charity Cup 1926-27
Kent League Division Two (Mid Kent) 1927-28
New Brompton League 1927-28, 1928-29, 1933-34, 1934-35
Kent Amateur Cup 1928-29
Kent League Division Two 1933-34, 1949-50
Faversham Charity Cup 1935-36
New Brompton League (K Division) 1948-49
Kent Amateur League (Eastern Division) 1960-61
Kent League Cup 1979-80
Hurst Electrical Floodlight Cup 1993-94
Kent Senior Trophy 2000-01, 2006-07
Kent League Premier Division 2006-07
Kent League Shield 2007-08

Club records

Best league position: 8th in Isthmian League Division One South (Step 4), 2014-15
Best FA Cup performance: 3rd qualifying round, 1957-58, 1988-89, 1989-90
Best FA Trophy performance: 2nd round, 2013-14
Best FA Vase performance: 5th round, 1996-97

Sources

Whitstable Town at the Football Club History Database

External links

Whitstable Town FC Official web site

Isthmian League

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Coordinates: 51°21′11.081″N 1°1′43.252″E / 51.35307806°N 1.02868111°E / 51.35307806; 1.02868111 51:21:11.081N 1:1:43.252E

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