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F.C. Broxbourne Borough

Coordinates: 51°42′23.526″N 0°3′31.874″W / 51.70653500°N 0.05885389°W / 51.70653500; -0.05885389
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Broxbourne Borough
Full nameBroxbourne Borough Football Club
Nickname(s)Boro
Founded1991 (as Somersett Ambury Victoria & Elm)
GroundGoffs Lane,
Broxbourne
Hertfordshire
Capacity5,000 (300 seated)
ManagerGeoff O'Vell
LeagueSpartan South Midlands League
Premier Division
2014–15Spartan South Midlands League
Division One, 2nd (promoted)

Broxbourne Borough F.C. is a football club based in Broxbourne, England. They changed their name from Somersett Ambury V & E to Broxbourne Borough V & E in 2002. Currently they are members of the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division. In the summer of 2012, the club was liquidated, reformed by removing the V & E from their name and demoted to Division Two. They are now known simply as Broxbourne Borough.

History

The club was formed in 1959 as Somersett F.C. by Colin Plowman and Robert Le Moignan who attended Chace Boys School, in Enfield, and played in the Edmonton Youth Saturday League for the first one two season, finishing bottom, failing to win a match. In 1961, the club joined the Enfield Alliance Football League. In 1975, the club accepted an invitation to join the V & E Youth Club Centre at their present site in Goffs Lane, Cheshunt. In 1982, Cheshunt Rangers merged with the club. In 1989, the club joined the McMullens League. In 1991, Ambury, a Premier Division team from the Mercury Waltham Sunday League, merged with Somersett to become Somersett Ambury V & E, then known locally as SAVE F.C. In 1993, the club joined the Herts Senior County League, and, in 1997, the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division.

Ground

The club's home ground

Their Goffs Lane ground was featured in David Bauckham's book Dugouts, with particular attention drawn to its enormous ten-seat wooden dugouts.[1]

Honours and records

  • FA Cup
    • Preliminary Round 2004–05

References

  1. ^ Bauckham, David (2006). Dugouts. New Holland. ISBN 1-84537-478-9.

Sources

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