Chalvey Sports Football Club is a football club based in the

Chalvey Chalvey () is a former village, which is now a suburb of Slough, in the unitary authority of Slough in Berkshire, England. It was transferred to Berkshire from Buckinghamshire in 1974. It was first recorded in 1217 by an Old English word meaning ...

area of

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at Eltham Avenue in Slough.

History

The club was founded in 1885. In 1954 they joined Division One of the

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, which they won at the first attempt, earning promotion to the Premier Division. They left the league at the end of the 1958–59 season, subsequently playing in the Slough & District League. During their time in the league they won the Norfolkian Senior Cup and the Slough Senior Cup.Club history
Chalvey Sports F.C. In 1992 the Slough & District League merged into the East Berkshire League, with Chalvey placed in Division One. They were Division One champions in 1992–93 and were promoted to the Premier Division. In 1996–97 they were Premier Division champions. The club won the League Cup in 2012–13. In 2016 they transferred to Division Two East of the Hellenic League. After winning the division in 2016–17 and 2017–18, the club were promoted to Division One East. At the end of the 2020–21 season they were transferred to Division One of the

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. Chalvey finished bottom of Division One in 2021–22 and were relegated to the Premier Division of the

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. However, they resigned from the league midway through the following season, before rejoining DIvision Two East of the Hellenic League for the 2023–24 season.

Ground

The club were based at the Garibaldi Pub during the 1980s, before moving to Chalvey Working Men’s Club, changing the club name to Chalvey W.M.C. Sports. The club relocated to Arbour Park, the home ground of

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, in 2017. In 2021 they moved to Burnham's 1878 Stadium.Chalvey Sports to groundshare with Burnham
The Non-League Paper, 25 July 2021

Honours

*Hellenic League **Division Two East champions, 2016–17, 2017–18 *East Berkshire League **Premier Division champions 1996–97 **Division One champions 1992–93 **League Cup winners 1994–95, 2001–02, 2012–13 *Great Western Combination **Division One champions 1954–55 *Norfolkian Senior Cup **Winners 1964-65, 1971,72, 1998-99 *Slough Town Senior Cup **Winners 1956–57 *Ascot & Fielden Cup **Winners 2003–04

Records

*Best

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performance: First qualifying round, 2019–20,

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

, 2021–22

References

External links

Official website
{{Hellenic League Association football clubs established in 1885 1885 establishments in England Football clubs in England Football clubs in Berkshire Sport in Slough Great Western Combination East Berkshire Football League Hellenic Football League Combined Counties Football League Thames Valley Premier Football League