 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Sheerwater F.C." – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(July 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
 | |||
| Full name | Sheerwater Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Sheers | ||
| Founded | 1958 | ||
| Ground | Eastwood Centre | ||
| Capacity | 600 | ||
| Chairman | Chris Machay | ||
| Manager | TJ Barbato | ||
| League | Combined Counties League Premier Division South | ||
| 2023–24 | Combined Counties League Premier Division South, 19th of 20 | ||
Sheerwater F.C. are aNon-League football club who are based inSheerwater, inWoking,Surrey,England. They play their home fixtures at the Eastwood Centre and are members of theCombined Counties League Premier Division South.
The club was founded in 1958, by John French, and they began life as members of the Woking & District League. After achieving Intermediate status, they joined theSurrey County Intermediate League (Western) in 1967. The club was a founding member of the Home Counties League in 1978,[1] which was renamed a year later to theCombined Counties League. They are currently members of the Combined Counties Premier Division.
The Jam played some of their early gigs at the clubhouse, before releasing their breakthrough song "In The City".Paul Weller,Bruce Foxton andRick Buckler all went toSheerwater Secondary School which is now called The David Brown Secondary School and is situated adjacent to Sheerwater Football Club.
The club has played in the Combined Counties League since the 2000s, although they did enjoy a brief spell in the Combined Counties in the early 1980s. For most of their time in the Combined Counties First Division, they have finished either mid-table or bottom of the league yet survived in this league due to a lack of suitable replacements from Step 7.
The club were the victim of a hoax in 2007 when investment into the club was promised but not delivered. The event could have spelt the end of the club, but they survived into the current decade.
Club Stalwart Trevor Wenden has been at the club in a number of different capacities since the 1970s.
Sheerwater played their home games at Woking Athletic Ground, Sheerwater Recreation Ground, Blackmore Crescent, Sheerwater, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5QJ until the end of the 2017/18 season. From August 2018 until the end of the 2020/21 season, The Sheers played their home games at theKingfield Stadium, home toNational League clubWoking while their new Eastwood Centre ground, which houses a third generation artificial pitch and forms part of a multi-leisure facility, was being built in the grounds ofBishop David Brown School in Sheerwater.
The Sheers commemorated the official opening of Eastwood with a fixture againstWoking on 24 July 2021, which resulted in a 3–0 home defeat. The ground has a capacity of 600 spectators.
51°20′12″N0°31′33″W / 51.3368°N 0.5258°W /51.3368; -0.5258
| Towns, villages and hamlets |  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parks | |||||
| Places of worship | |||||
| Education | |||||
| Transport | |||||
| Buildings and structures | |||||
| Sport |
| ||||
| People | |||||
