Alveston Football Club was a
football
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club based in
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon ( ), commonly known as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon (district), Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of Engl ...
, Warwickshire, England.
History
The club was established in 1924 after Alveston United folded.
[History]
Alveston F.C. They joined the Stratford & District League, going on to win the title in 1924–25 and 1925–26.
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In 1993 the club joined the newly formed Division Three of the ]Midland Combination
The Midland Football Combination was an English football league covering parts of the West Midlands. It comprised five divisions, a Premier Division, Divisions One and Two and two Reserves Divisions. The league was one of three official feeder l ...
.[ The 1994–95 season saw them finish as Division Two runners-up, earning promotion to Division One. They went on to win Division One in 1997–98 and were promoted to the Premier Division.][ The following season saw them win the Premier Division at the first attempt,][ as well as winning the league's Challenge Cup and the Smedley Crooke Cup.][
Following their period of success, the club subsequently went into decline, finishing seventeenth the season after winning the title. After improving to a fifteenth-placed finish in 2000–01, they went on to finish in the bottom three for four consecutive seasons. Although they finished tenth in 2005–06, the following season saw them finish bottom of the division, at which point they were relegated to Division One.
After three seasons in Division One, they returned to the Premier Division after finishing third in 2009–10. However, an eighteenth-place finish in the Premier Division the following season, they left the league. They subsequently dropped into Division One of the Stratford Alliance, finishing as runners-up in their first season in the league and winning the Hospital Cup.][Honours]
Alveston F.C. The club folded at the start of the 2017–18 season.
Stratford Alliance, 7 August 2017
Ground
Having previously played on Alveston
Alveston is a village, civil parish and former royal manor in South Gloucestershire, England, inhabited in 2014 by about 3,000 people. The village lies south of Thornbury and north of Bristol. Alveston is twinned with Courville sur Eu ...
's village green and on Stratford's Recreation Ground, the club moved to the Home Guard Club in Tiddington in 1975. Floodlights were erected in 1999. However, they left the ground in 2010 and later played at Bearley Sports and Social Club.
Honours
*Midland Combination
**Premier Division champions 1998–99
**Division One champions 1997–98
**Challenge Cup winners 1998–99
**Smedley Crooke Cup winners 1997–98, 1998–99
**Jack Mould Trophy winners 1995–96
*Stratford Alliance
**Hospital Cup winners 2011–12
*Stratford and District League
**Champions 1924–25, 1925–26
References
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Defunct football clubs in England
Association football clubs established in 1924
Midland Football Combination
Defunct football clubs in Warwickshire
1924 establishments in England
Association football clubs disestablished in 2017
2017 disestablishments in England