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| Full name | Enfield Town Football Club | |||
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| Nickname | Towners | |||
| Founded | 2001 | |||
| Ground | Queen Elizabeth II Stadium,Enfield | |||
| Capacity | 2,500[1] | |||
| Chairman | Paul Reed | |||
| Manager | Gavin MacPherson | |||
| League | National League South | |||
| 2024–25 | National League South, 19th of 24 | |||
| Website | enfieldtownfootballclub.co.uk | |||
Enfield Town Football Club is afootball club based inEnfield,Greater London, England. Established in 2001 as a fan-led breakaway fromEnfield, the club are currently members of theNational League South and play at theQueen Elizabeth II Stadium. The club badge features theEnfield beast.
The club was founded on 23 June 2001 by the Enfield Supporters' Trust after Trust members considered that the regime in charge ofEnfield no longer had the interests of the club at heart and lacked sufficient will to bring about the return of the club to its home town, having leftSouthbury Road in 1999.[2] This followed the chairman of Enfield withdrawing from an outline agreement with the Supporters' Trust which would have seen the Trust take over the running of a debt-free club and receiving £100,000 from money from the sale of Southbury Road which was held in anescrow account byEnfield Council. The balance of over £600,000 would have been paid to the chairman.[3]
The newly formed club were admitted to theEssex Senior League for the 2001–02 season, three divisions below the Isthmian League Premier Division where Enfield continued to play. The club's first season saw them finish second in the league and win the League Cup, the Capital Counties Feeder Leagues Trophy, and theMiddlesex Senior Charity Cup.[4][5] The following season they won the Essex Senior League, but were not promoted due to ground grading issues. Despite only finishing fourth in the 2003–04 season, in May 2004 the Isthmian League invited the club to join Division Two, but later rescinded the offer.[6] They won the Essex Senior League for a second time in 2004–05,[7] and were promoted to Division One East of theSouthern League, which Enfield were also members of. They finished third in theirfirst season in the Southern League, qualifying for the play-offs, where they were beaten 3–1 after extra time in the semi-finals byWivenhoe Town.
In the summer of 2006 the club were transferred to Division One North of the Isthmian League.[8] The2006–07 season saw them finish third again, but they lost 4–2 toAFC Sudbury in the play-off semi-finals. At the end of the season Enfield were liquidated and Enfield Town chairman Paul Millington released a statement suggesting that the two clubs should merge and "return the name of Enfield to the top of the non-league world".[9] However, the Enfield players, officials and supporters rejected the offer and formed a brand new club namedEnfield 1893. Enfield Town qualified for the play-offs again in2009–10 after finishing fourth. However, after beatingWingate & Finchley 3–2 in the semi-finals,[10] they lost 3–1 in the final toConcord Rangers.[11] In2011–12 they were runners-up in the division and went on to win the play-offs, beatingGrays Athletic 3–1 on penalties (after a 2–2 draw) in the semi-finals and then defeatingNeedham Market 1–0 in the final, earning promotion to the Premier Division.
At the start of the 2012–13 season the club won theSupporters Direct Cup, defeatingWrexham 3–1. They retained it the following season, beatingYB SK Beveren of Belgium 8–2. In2016–17 they finished fourth in the Isthmian League Premier Division before losing 4–2 toDulwich Hamlet in the play-off semi-finals. The2018–19 season saw the club win the Isthmian League's League Cup, beatingAFC Hornchurch 2–0 in the final.[12] In2021–22 they finished third in the Premier Division before losing 3–2 toHornchurch in the play-off semi-finals. The club finished third again thefollowing season, this time beatingWingate & Finchley 1–0 in the play-off semi-finals before defeatingChatham Town 3–0 in the final to earn promotion to theNational League South.
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The club originally played atBrimsdown Rovers' Goldsdown Road ground, and were later joined by Enfield 1893. In October 2008, Enfield Council announced a deal with the club allowing the club to relocate to the Queen Elizabeth Stadium, close to Enfield's old Southbury Road ground. At the end of the 2009–10 season the club was awarded a grant of £81,504 by the Football Stadium Improvement Fund towards the first phase of works on the new ground.
They left Goldsdown Road at the end of the2010–11 season, taking with them much of the ground's infrastructure, which resulted in Enfield 1893, who had won the Essex Senior League, not being able to take promotion to the Isthmian League as the ground no longer met the league's standards. After spending the first few months of the 2011–12 season groundsharing at the Cheshunt Stadium inCheshunt,[13] they moved into theQueen Elizabeth II Stadium in November 2011, with the first match being a victory againstHarefield United in theMiddlesex Senior Cup on 9 November.[1] The ground was officially opened with a friendly match againstTottenham Hotspur on 16 November,[14] a game which saw a then-record attendance of 969.[15]
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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| Position | Name | ||||||
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| Chairman | Paul Reed | ||||||
| Vice Chairman | Paul Millington | ||||||
| Manager | Gavin MacPherson | ||||||
| Assistant Manager | Jon Nurse | ||||||
| First Team Coach | Steve Conroy | ||||||
| Goalkeeping Coach | Dean Hurlow | ||||||
| Source:Enfield Town | |||||||
| Manager | Period | G | W | D | L | Win % | Honours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jim Chandler | 2001–08 | 354 | 215 | 58 | 81 | 60.7 | Essex Senior League 2002–03, 2004–05 Essex Senior League Cup 2001–02, 2003–04 Cherry Red Books Trophy 2001–02 Middlesex Charity Cup 2001–02, 2007–08 Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy 2002–03 |
| Stewart Margolis | 2008–09 | 59 | 24 | 10 | 25 | 40.7 | |
| Steve Newing | 2009–13 | 235 | 116 | 33 | 86 | 49.4 | George Ruffell Memorial Trophy 2009–10 |
| Bryan and Peter Hammatt | 2013 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | |
| George Borg | 2013–14 | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 32.4 | |
| Bradley Quinton | 2014–17 | 114 | 63 | 14 | 37 | 55.3 | |
| Andy Leese | 2017–2023 | Isthmian League Cup (Velocity Trophy) 2018–19 | |||||
| Source:Enfield Town | |||||||
The club set up a reserve side in time for the 2006–07 season and joined the Eastern Division of the Capital League. The club's U21 team play in the Isthmian League's U21 North Division.
The club also have a women's team, who play in theFA Women's National League.[17]
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