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Association Football Club Uckfield was a
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club based in
Uckfield Uckfield () is a town in the Wealden District, Wealden District of East Sussex in South East England. The town is on the River Uck, one of the tributaries of the River Ouse, Sussex, River Ouse, on the southern edge of the Weald. Etymology "Uck ...
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History

The club was formed in 1988 as Wealden Football Club. They joined the
Sussex County League The Southern Combination Football League (named Premier Sports Southern Combination Football League) is a football league broadly covering the counties of East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey and South West London, England. The league consists of e ...
Division Three in 1998 and finished runners-up in 1999–2000, gaining promotion to Division Two. The club entered the
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for the first time in 2006–07 and reached the first round. In 2010, they were renamed A.F.C. Uckfield and went on to win Division Two in 2010–11, earning promotion to Division One. In July 2014, they merged with Uckfield Town to form A.F.C. Uckfield Town; the new club adopted Uckfield Town's black and red colours for their home kit and A.F.C. Uckfield's sky blue and navy blue as the away kit,Uckfield’s top football clubs merge
Uckfield News, 31 July 2014 and played at the Oaks.


Honours

*Sussex County League **Division Two champions 2010–11


Records

*Best
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performance: Extra preliminary round, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13 *Best
FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, also known as the Isuzu FA Vase for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football competition run by and named after The Football Association (The FA), for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English Nation ...
performance: First round, 2006–07


References

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