Aylesbury Vale Dynamos Football Club is a football club based in

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. They are currently members of the and play at Haywood Way.

History

The club was established in the 1930s as Negretti and Zambra, a

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for the

Negretti and Zambra Negretti and Zambra (active 1850 – c. 1985) was a company that produced scientific and optical instruments and also operated a photographic studio based in London. History Henry Negretti (1818–1879) and Joseph Zambra (1822–1897) for ...

company in the King's Cross area of

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. When the company relocated to the Stocklake Industrial Estate in Aylesbury in 1949, facilities were set up for the sports teams and the club joined the Aylesbury & District League in 1954.Club History
Aylesbury F.C. The company later sold the sports facilities to the council, at which point the club was renamed Stocklake. After several successful years in the Aylesbury & District League, the club moved up to the Wycombe & District League, where they remained until being promoted to Division One of the

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in 1988. They finished as runners-up in 1989–90, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Their first season in the Premier Division saw them take the runners-up position, a feat they repeated in 1996–97. They also won the Wycombe Senior Cup in 1995. In the summer of 2000 the league merged into the Hellenic League but Stocklake chose to join Division One of the

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instead. In the same year the club merged with Belgrave F.C. and was renamed again, this time becoming Haywood United. The 2001–02 season saw them finish as runners-up in a renamed Division Two, earning promotion to Division One. After winning the Division One title in 2003–04, they were promoted to the Premier Division. In 2005 another name change saw the club become Aylesbury Vale, although this only lasted until 2009 when the dropped the 'Vale' part. Their first season as Aylesbury saw them win the Premier Division title, earning promotion to Division One Central of the Southern League, as well as winning the League Cup. A third-place finish in Division One Central in 2014–15 saw them qualify for the promotion play-offs, in which they lost 2–1 to

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in the semi-finals. In 2015–16 they won the

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, beating

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1–0 in the final. Aylesbury finished second from bottom of Division One Central in 2018–19 and were relegated to the Premier Division of the Spartan South Midlands League; the club would have been relegated even if they had finished in a higher position due to their changing rooms being below regulation size.FA changing room regulations: Aylesbury to be relegated over undersized area
BBC Sport, 17 January 2019 During the close season the club merged with Bedgrove Dynamos and were renamed Aylesbury Vale Dynamos.

Ground

After moving to Aylesbury, the club played at the sports facilities on the Stocklake Industrial Estate until 1987, when they moved to their Haywood Way ground. Floodlights were erected during the 2001–02 season.

Honours

*Spartan South Midlands League **Premier Division champions: 2009–10 **Division One champions 2003–04 **League Cup winners 2009–10 *Wycombe Senior Cup **Winners: 1994–95 *Buckingham Charity Cup **Winners 2005–06 *Aylesbury & District Thomas Field Shield **Winners 1999–2000 *Berks & Bucks Senior Cup **Winners 2015–16

Records

*Highest league position: 3rd in Southern League Division One Central, 2014–15 *Best

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competit ...

performance: Fourth qualifying round, 2009–10 *Best

FA Trophy The Football Association Challenge Trophy, commonly known as the FA Trophy, is a men's football knockout cup competition run by and named after the English Football Association and competed for primarily by semi-professional teams. The compet ...

performance: First qualifying round, 2010–11, 2011–12 *Best

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performance: Third round, 2008–09

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