Coggeshall United Football Club was a football club based in

Coggeshall Coggeshall ( or ) is a town and civil parish in the Braintree district, in Essex, England, between Braintree and Colchester on the Roman road Stane Street and the River Blackwater. In 2001 it had a population of 3,919. It has almost 300 li ...

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. They were founded in 2017 by former footballer

Cliff Akurang Cliff Danquah Akurang (born 27 February 1981) is a former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Barnet. Early life Akurang was born in Accra. Career After prolific spells at Heybridge Swifts and Thurrock, he joined D ...

History

The club was founded in 2017 and joined the Premier Division of the Essex & Suffolk Border League, with

being appointed player-manager. Akurang also became club chairman later in the season. They finished second in the league in their first season, and successfully applied to join the new Division One South of the

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. In 2018, Andrew Douglas took over as Club President. In the 2018–19 season, they finished 2nd in Division One South of the

, narrowly missing out on promotion to

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. In 2023, Coggeshall United finished bottom of the Eastern Counties League Division One South. The following season, the club failed to enter a league.

Records

*Highest league position: 2nd in

Division One South 2018–19

Ground

Coggeshall United played at Coggeshall Town's West Street ground, which is located to the west of

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