Dorchester Town F.C.

The history of the club can be traced back to 1871, but the club in its current format was founded (reformed) on Monday 18 October 1880 as Dorchester Football Club, playing home games at The Recreation Ground on Weymouth Avenue. Dorchester were Dorset Senior Cup finalists in 1888 and 1890, before joining the Dorset League in 1896. The club struggled for many years due to the importance of the town's market impacting player availability on Saturdays and, in 1908/09, the club imposed a policy of only playing fellow clubs from Dorchester and visiting military teams. This policy lasted for one season, and on 26 August 1910, Dorchester FC, Dorchester Wanderers, Dorchester United, Dorchester Athletic, and Dorchester Rovers came together to create "a team worthy of the good old town of Dorchester". The newly merged team became known as Dorchester Town Football Club. In 1929 the club moved from the Recreation Ground but remained on Weymouth Avenue, on land which became known as the Avenue Football Ground. Despite being founder members of the Dorset League, the club had little success before winning the championship in 1937/38 with a 2–0 victory at Sherborne on 25 April 1938. The club joined the Western League in 1947, winning promotion from Division Two in 1950, and going on to take the league championship in 1954/55. The fifties proved to be a successful decade for the Magpies, winning the Dorset Senior Cup for the first time in 1951, and having a number of good runs in the FA…

Southern League Eastern Division 2003–04 Champions Southern League Southern Division 1979–80 & 1986–87 Champions 1977–78 Runners up Southern League Cup 2001–02 Winners 1991–92 Runners up Southern League Challenge Trophy 2002–03 Winners Western League Division One 1954–55 Champions 1960–61 Runners up Western Football League Professional Cup 1960–61 & 1961–62 Runners up Western Football League Alan Young Cup: Winners (1): 1961–62 Dorset Senior Cup 1950–51, 1960–61, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1993–94, 1995–96, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2010–11, 2011–12