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| Full name | Westfield Football Club | ||
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| Nicknames | The Field, The Yella | ||
| Founded | 1953 | ||
| Ground | Woking Park | ||
| Capacity | 1,500 | ||
| Chairman | Steven Perkins | ||
| Manager | Andrew Crossley | ||
| League | Isthmian League South Central Division | ||
| 2024–25 | Isthmian League South Central Division, 12th of 22 | ||
Westfield Football Club is a semi-professionalfootball club based in theWestfield area ofWoking, England. The club is affiliated to theSurrey County Football Association.[1] They are currently members of theIsthmian League South Central Division.
The club was established in 1953 asWestfield Boys Club and started playing in the local Woking and District Football league.[2] During their time in the local leagues, the club won the Surrey Junior Charity Cup and the Surrey Junior Cup.[2] After a few seasons, the club moved up to theSurrey intermediate leagues.[2]
For the 1962–63 season, the club joined the Parthenon League, now under the name ofWestfield and finished runners-up at the first attempt.[3] The following season saw the club join theSurrey Senior League.[4] Their ninth season in the Surrey Senior League, 1972–73, saw the club clinch the league title and complete a double success by winning the league cup.[2] Further success followed the next season as they successfully defended the league title.[4] In April 1974Dorking FC invited Westfield to play a friendly to inaugurate their new floodlights. Westfield won the match 1 - 0. Not long afterDorking FC merged withGuildford City to form Guildford and Dorking United. The 1974–75 campaign saw the club make their debut in theFA Vase, where they lost toChertsey Town, and finished bottom of the league; however, they did not suffer relegation back to the intermediate leagues.[5]
In 1978, the club became a founder member of theHome Counties Football League, which was then renamed theCombined Counties Football League the following season.[6] The club remained in the Combined Counties Football league for the next twenty-seven seasons, despite finishing in the bottom three times within this period. They also managed to advance to the Concours Challenge Trophy, but lost out toHartley Wintney in the final.[5][7] This period also saw the club enter theFA Cup for the first time when they metDorking in the extra preliminary qualifying round, but lost 2–1.[5] The 2005–06 campaign saw the club finish in eleventh place, but they were relegated to Division one as their ground did not meet the criteria to remain in the Premier Division.[8]
In 2011–12, the club reached its first cup final for in twenty years when they metWarlingham in the Division One Challenge Cup, but lost 4–2.[9] In 2013, the club's youth team was transferred to the Sturridge Football Academy, owned byDaniel Sturridge and operated in part by Leon Sturridge and Cleveland Clarke. However, as of May 2025, the U18s has been put back in control of the club.[10]
In 2017–18, Tony Reid's side went one better than their runners up position the previous season, after they clinched theCombined Counties Football League title with six games remaining. The Yellows beat local rivalsKnaphill 4–1 at Woking Park (12 April 2018) to secure the championship and promotion to step 4 of theNational League System for the first time in their history.
2018-19 saw the club finish in 5th place, losing the play-off semi-final to Bracknell Town.[11]
The club remained in contention for promotion to theIsthmian League Premier Division during the 2019–20; however, the season was eventually abandoned due to thecoronavirus pandemic, after the UK Government placed all four nations on lockdown from 23 March 2020. This prompted Reid and his assistantMartyn Lee to resign on 15 April 2020, with both seeking new managerial roles within the higher echelons of the non-League football pyramid.
On 16 May 2020, Westfield formally announced the appointment of Simon Lane, who had previously managed atEgham Town,Northwood,Windsor and Eton andWingate and Finchley. On 9 February 2023, it was announced that Lane had left the Woking Park side to joinKingstonian.[12]
On 25 February 2023, the club announced it had appointed formerArsenal,Fulham andWoking midfielder Ian Selley.[13]
The 2023/24 season proved to be one of great excitement, which saw the club reach the playoffs again, but fell in extra time away toMarlow.
A week later the club lifted the Aldershot Senior Cup for the first time after defeatingBadshot Lea on penalties. The Field had progressed to the final the previous season, where they met a then Combined Counties Division Badshot Lea side, but were defeated 2-0.
On 16 May 2024, the club announced that Ian Selley had resigned so that he could take up the vacant Manager position atLeatherhead. He was replaced by player-manager Andrew Crossley, who guided the Field to a 12th placed finish in the 2024/25 campaign.
The 2025/26 campaign has seen an indifferent start to the league campaign, with the Field recording two wins and two losses in their opening four games, but have made a historic run to the Second Qualifying Round of theFA Cup, defeatingRusthall, Leatherhead andSheppey United along the way. They are due to hostNational League South sideHorsham at Woking Park - one of the biggest games in the club's history.
Westfield play their home games at Woking Park, Woking, Surrey, GU22 9BA. The ground is located on the north side of Kingfield Road, Woking, on the south side is fellow local non-league sideWoking F.C. The top of Woking's Leslie Gosden Stand and floodlights atKingfield Stadium are visible from the balcony at Woking Park.
The Field moved to their current location around 1960, with floodlights being installed in 1998.[14] Major work was undertaken to the ground in the 2010–11 season, which saw the building of a new stand and facilities and the pitch being dug up and raised in May 2011.[14][15] A new 50 seater stand was constructed in March 2014 at the western end of the football ground to comply with FA Ground Grading requirements (shown in picture to right), this was later expanded to 104 seats in March 2019 following the club's promotion to theIsthmian League.[16][17]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Westfield Football Club had operated a women's football team,Westfield Ladies FC. It had been affiliated to the men's team since forming in 2009 until 2014, and contributes into the club's community development programme. The Ladies won their respective league in their opening season and played their homes games at Woking Park. However, after only a few seasons the ladies team was dissolved leaving only the senior men's team and the reserves (now U18s).
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