Clubname: | Paulsgrove |
Fullname: | Paulsgrove Football Club |
Founded: | 1964 |
Ground: | Marsden Road, Paulsgrove |
Chairman: | Kevin Doughty |
Manager: | Johnny Willett |
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Paulsgrove Football Club is a football club based in the Paulsgrove area of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association.[1] The club is an FA Charter Standard club.[2] The club was formed in 1964.[3] They joined the Hampshire League Division Two in 1987 and played in that league's Division One between 1993 and 1996. They are currently members of the .
In 1987–88, the club joined the Hampshire League in division Two, five seasons later they gained promotion to division one in the 1992–93 season.[4] [5] They stayed for a few seasons but were relegated back to division two in 1995–96.[5] Three seasons later, the club were champions of Division two in the 1998–99 season.[5] However, instead of being promoted the club remained in the second tier, now named Division one, of The Hampshire League after it was re-organised for the 1999–2000 season.[5] In 2004–05! they then left the Hampshire league to join the newly formed Division three of the Wessex league, two seasons later this division was renamed division two.[6]
At the end of the 2006–07 season, Paulsgrove left the Wessex league to become one of the founding members of the Hampshire Premier League. In October 2007. the club gained a bye in the Hampshire Cup under somewhat unusual circumstances: drawn at home to play Kingston Arrows (a side composed entirely of long-stay prisoners), their opponents were unable to fulfil the fixture.[7] [8] The club continue to play in the Hampshire Premier league and during their period in the league have won the senior league cup once in the 2008–09 season.[9]
The 2017–18 seasons saw the club win the Hampshire Premier league senior division and the Hampshire intermediate cup.[10]
Paulsgrove play their games at Paulsgrove Social Club, Marsden Road, Paulsgrove, Portsmouth PO6 4JB.[11]