List of Swindon Supermarine F.C. seasons explained

Swindon Supermarine Football Club, a semi-professional association football club based in South Marston, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, was founded in 1992 as a merger between Supermarine and Swindon Athletic Football Clubs, both playing in the Hellenic Football League.[1] Both clubs had problems, Supermarine finished bottom of Hellenic League Division One in the 1991 - 92 season and Swindon Athletic were having difficulties meeting the new ground grading requirements at their Swindon Borough Council owned Southbrook Recreation ground. So the two clubs agreed to merge and took Swindon Athletic's place in the Hellenic League Premier Division.[1]

The new club won the Hellenic League Premier Division title on two occasions in their nine-season stay in the division.[2] During their time in the Hellenic Football League, the club participated in the FA Vase each season; their furthest runs in the competition involved reaching the Second Round on two occasions in 1998–99 and 1999–2000.

In 2001 they joined the Southern Football League Division One West and became eligible to participate in the FA Cup, and in the FA Trophy instead of the FA Vase. At the end of the 2005–06 season the club took part in its first play-off tournament after finishing fifth in the Western Division; promotion was not achieved as they were eliminated in the semi-finals by Hemel Hempstead Town and were instead transferred to the newly formed Division One South & West. The club achieved immediate promotion from the new division after a fourth-place finish and subsequent play-off win, defeating Burnham in the semi-final and Taunton Town in the final.[3] After four mid-table finishes in the Premier Division, Swindon Supermarine experienced relegation for the first time in their short history in 2011–12 finishing 21st of 22 and returning to Division One South & West. This division was renamed back to Division One West in 2017, and in 2018 the club were promoted into Premier Division South. Their best run in the FA Cup came in the 2010–11 season when they reached the Second Round proper where they lost at League One side Colchester United.[4] [5] This has been the only time the club has progressed through the qualifying rounds.[6] Swindon Supermarine reached the third round proper (last sixteen) of the FA Trophy, their furthest run in the competition, on three occasions in 2008–09, 2020–21 and 2022–23.

As at the end of 2023–24, the club's first team had spent eleven seasons in the seventh tier of English football, twelfth in the eighth tier and nine in the ninth tier. The table below details their achievements in first-team competitions for each completed season since their first appearance in the Hellenic Football League Premier Division in 1992–93.

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Seasons

SeasonLeague recordFA CupFA Trophyscope=col colspan=2 width=80pxOther
scope=colDivisionscope=colscope=colscope=colscope=colscope=colscope=colscope=col data-sort-type="number"scope=col data-sort-type="number"scope=colCompetitionscope=colResult
scope=row1992–93341113104643468throwspan=9 rowspan=9 FA VaseEP
scope=row1993–9434166126442518thFA VasePRE
scope=row1994–9530164107644523rdFA VasePRE
scope=row1995–9634203118233636thFA VaseR1
scope=row1996–973421587240684thFA VaseQR2
scope=row1997–983427348320841stFA VaseR1
scope=row1998–99361091741593914thFA VaseR2
scope=row3623497427733rdFA VaseR2
scope=row2000–013829458629911stFA VaseR1
scope=row2001–02401142552763719thQR2R1Southern Football League CupTBC
scope=row2002–03421152652853819thPRER1Southern Football League CupTBC
scope=row2003–04401092141693917thQR1R2Southern Football League CupTBC
scope=row2004–054212121843604819thQR1PRESouthern Football League CupTBC
scope=row2005–0642229117047755thQR2QR1Southern Football League CupTBC
scope=row2006–07422011116840714thQR1QR2Southern Football League CupR1
scope=row2007–084214121651675412thQR1QR1Southern Football League Cup
scope=row2008–094215121559615713thQR1R3Southern Football League CupSF
scope=row2009–104210141848764414thQR1QR1Southern Football League CupTBC
scope=row2010–11401771656585810thR2QR3Southern Football League CupR1
scope=row2011–124211112050864421stQR2R1Southern Football League CupR3
scope=row2012–1342256117951814thQR1QR1Southern Football League CupR1
scope=row2013–1442247119152795thPREQR1Southern Football League CupR2
scope=row2014–15421752081795614thQR2PRESouthern Football League Cup
scope=row2015–164227698142874thQR1QR2Southern Football League CupR1
scope=row2016–1742219128557726thQR3QR1Southern Football League CupR1
scope=row2017–18422111108654745thQR3QR1Southern Football League CupR1
scope=row2018–194216101670595811thQR2QR1Southern Football League CupR1
scope=row2019–203217695041574thQR2QR1Southern Football League CupR3
scope=row2020–2174031210126thQR2R3——
scope=row2021–22421691763635712thQR1QR3Southern Football League CupSF
scope=row2022–2342238118866776thQR3R3——
scope=row2023–244213101973924916thQR1R1——

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Club History . swindonsupermarinefc.com . 31 October 2017.
  2. Web site: Premier Division Honours . hellenicleague.co.uk . 1 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120720085207/http://www.hellenicleague.co.uk/stats/prem_honours.html . 20 July 2012 . dead .
  3. Web site: Tims 92 . Tims92.blogspot.co.uk Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  4. Web site: Colchester 1-0 Swindon Supermarine . 27 November 2010 . . 3 November 2017.
  5. Web site: U's ace Mooney sinks minnows . 27 November 2010 . . 3 November 2017.
  6. Web site: Swindon Supermarine in FA Cup dreamland . 27 October 2010 . . 3 November 2017.

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