Wick & Barnham United F.C.

Wick & Barnham United
Full name Wick & Barnham United Football Club
Nickname(s) The Wickers
Founded 2013
Ground Crabtree Park, Wick
Ground Capacity tbc
Chairman Keith Croft
Manager Jon Tucker/Lee Tillyer
League Southern Combination Football League
Premier Division
2014–15 Sussex County League
Division Two, 3rd (promoted)

Wick & Barnham United F.C. is a football club based in Wick, near Littlehampton, England. Wick joined the Sussex County League Division Two in 1964. In the 1998–99 season, they reached the 4th round of the FA Vase. Prior to the 2013–14 season, they merged with near neighbours Barnham and are currently members of the Southern Combination Football League Premier Division.

History

Wick became founding members of the West Sussex Football League in 1896, joining the Junior Division.[1]

Wick joined Division Two of the Sussex County League in 1964–65 and then spent the next eighteen seasons in Division Two, eventually winning promotion in 1983 after finishing as champions. They then spent three seasons in Division One before being relegated, but bounced back the following season (1985–86) after winning Division Two for a second time.

From then until the end of the 2002–03 season, Wick were ever-present in Division One of the County League, winning the League Challenge Cup in 1987–88.

In 1989–90 they lifted the Division One title, as well as the RUR Charity Cup.[2] In 1992–93 they won the Sussex Senior Cup for the only time, beating Oakwood at the Goldstone Ground, 3–1. The 1993–94 season they won the championship for the second time, finishing 14 points clear of runners-up Whitehawk.

The league cup was won in the 1996–97[2] season and finished runners-up to Burgess Hill Town. The following season under manager Jimmy Quinn, Wick finished third in the League, but reached the semi-finals of the Senior Cup, and won the RUR charity Cup, which they retained in the following 1998–99 season.[3]

In 2000–01, the club finish third, but two seasons later in the 2002–03 campaign the club was relegated to Division Two.[4]

The club finished as runners-up to Crowborough Athletic in 2004–05 to move back in to the top division of the Sussex league.[5]

Carl Stabler joined as manager in 2006–07 with the remit of rising Wick Football Club out of the County League and after 3 seasons stepped up to Chairman and handed over the reins of the football side of the club to manager Vic Short.

Ground

Wick play their games at Coombs Way, Wick, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 7LS.

Honours

League honours

Cup honours

Club records

Former coaches

  1. Managers/Coaches that have played/managed in the football league or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league).
  2. Managers/Coaches with full international caps.

References

  1. ↑ "Shoreham F.C. – Early football in Shoreham and the 'Glory Years". Shoreham History Portal. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  2. 1 2 "Wick FC". Sussexcountyfc.milbint.com. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  3. 1 2 "Wick Football Club". Wickfc.milbint.com. 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  4. ↑ "Wick FC – Club History". Sussexcountyleague.com. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 WICK at the Football Club History Database
  6. ↑ "The Sussex Senior Cup". Sussexcountyleague.com. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  7. ↑ "The John O'Hara League Challenge Cup Final Results – Sussex County Football League". Sussexcountyleague.com. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  8. ↑ "R.U.R. Cup Final Results – Sussex County Football Association". Sussexcountyleague.com. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  9. ↑ "Floodlight Cup – Sussex County Football Association". Sussexcountyleague.com. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  10. ↑ "SCFL Division 2 Cup – Sussex County Football League". Sussexcountyleague.com. Retrieved 2012-10-15.

External links

Coordinates: 50°49′27.94″N 0°32′18.58″W / 50.8244278°N 0.5384944°W / 50.8244278; -0.5384944

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