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Tower Hamlets
Full nameTower Hamlets Football Club
Founded2000
GroundMile End Stadium, London
Capacity2,000 (439 seated)
ChairmanMohammed Nurul Hoque
ManagerAde Abayomi & AJ Ashinike
LeagueSouthern Counties East League Division One
2023–24Eastern Counties League Division One South, 15th of 22 (transferred)

Tower Hamlets Football Club is an English football club based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The club are currently members of the Southern Counties East League Division One and play at the Mile End Stadium.

Until July 2013 the club played under the name Bethnal Green United. The name was changed by the club's owners to be representative of the entire borough.

History

The club was established in 2000 by Mohammed Nurul Hoque and Akhtar Ahmed as a community club.[1] The club played in several leagues, including the Canary Wharf Summer League, the Inner London Football League and the London Intermediate League, before joining the Middlesex County League. They were granted Senior status after winning the league's Premier Division in 2009, and were promoted to the Essex Senior League. In the 2009–10 season they finished fifth in the ESL and won both cups operated by the Essex Senior League, beating Burnham Ramblers 4–1 in the final of the Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy.

Honours

  • Essex Senior League
    • League Cup winners 2009–10
    • Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy winners 2009–10
  • Middlesex County League
    • Premier Division champions 2008–09
    • Premier Division Cup winners 2007–08
  • Middlesex County Open Cup
    • Winners 2008–09
  • Tower Hamlets League
    • Champions 2002–03
    • League Cup winners 2002–03
  • Tower Hamlet's Mayors Cup
    • Winners 2012

Records

  • Best FA Cup performance: First qualifying round, 2010–11[2]
  • Best FA Vase performance: Fifth round, 2011–12[2]
  • Record attendance: 468 vs Clapton, Essex Senior League, 25 August 2017[3]

See also

The original Bethnal Green United badge.

References

  1. ^ Match report: Bethnal Green United 4–0 Basildon United Archived 25 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Two Footed Tackle
  2. ^ a b Bethnal Green United at the Football Club History Database
  3. ^ "Four Essex Senior League clubs record highest attendance ever as Tons come to own – analysing figures during Clapton fans' boycott". Clapton News. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

External links

Sport director : Diego Matos Bitencourt