Oxford City F.C.

The club played their first recorded match on 15 March 1884 at Thame Grammar School, losing 4–2. Fixtures were irregular for over a decade, with none at all played between 1886 and 1893, but the club was reorganized and reconstituted in 1897 and soon became the leading club in Oxfordshire, winning the FA Amateur Cup in 1906, before joining the Isthmian League the following year. In the latter half of the 20th century, the club went into decline and soon fell behind Headington United after that club turned professional in 1949. An attempt was made to return the club to success in 1979 when it became a limited company and later when England World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore was appointed manager with his former West Ham United team-mate Harry Redknapp as his assistant. The club reached its lowest point in 1988 when they were evicted from their White House Ground by their landlords Brasenose College, who sold it off for housing. Forced to resign from the Isthmian League, the club did not reform and return to senior football until 1990 when based at Cutteslowe Park, they entered the South Midlands League Division One, winning promotion in their first season. They returned to the Isthmian League in 1993 when they also moved to their current ground. The club continued to climb through the divisions of that League during the 1990s and reached the final of the FA Vase in 1995. Highlights of the next decade included two years in the Isthmian League Premier Division and an epic…

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National League South (level 6) Play-off winners: 2023 Southern Football League (level 7) Play-off winners: 2012 Southern Football League Division One South & West (level 8) Play-off winners: 2008 Spartan South Midlands Football League Premier Division (level 9) Champions: 2005–06 Spartan South Midlands Football League Premier Division Champions: 1992–93 Isthmian Football League Division One Champions: 1995–96 Cup

FA Amateur Cup Winners: 1905–06 Tournoi de Pâques du Stade Français Winners: 1921 Oxfordshire Senior Cup Winners (36)