Copthorne Football Club is a football club based in Copthorne in

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an a ...

, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Camping World Community Stadium in

Horsham Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby ...

History

The club was established in 2004. Becoming members of the

Mid-Sussex League The Mid Sussex Football League is an association football league formed in 1900. The league is headed by the Premier Division which is at level eleven of the English football league system and member clubs are based in East Sussex, West Sussex ...

, they were Division Six champions in 2007–08.League Honours
Mid-Sussex Football League The won a treble in the 2009–10 season, winning Division Five, the Sommerville Challenge Cup and the Stratford Cup. Also winning Division Three the following season. And finishing second in Division Two in the 2011–12 season.
Non-League Matters They were promoted into the Premier Division at the end of the 2014–15 season after finishing third.
FA Full Time The club joined the

Southern Combination Football League The Macron 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 eight divisions – three for first teams (Premier Div ...

Division Two for the 2018–19 season, finishing 2nd but did not apply to enter step 6 in the

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pyramid. Applying for promotion into Division One in the 2021–22 season, the league declined due to the ground-grading, the club moved from King George's Field in Copthorne, and entered a groundshare agreement with

for the

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in which they finished 2nd but gained promotion into Division One for the 2023–24 season.

Ground

Copthorne play their home games at Horsham's Camping World Community Stadium, Hop Oast in

, West Sussex. Originally playing on King Georges playing fields in Copthorne, the club had a one year groundshare agreement for the 2022–23 season whilst they were looking to find land for their own stadium.

Honours

League

:Division One runners-up (1): 2012–13 :Division Two runners-up (1): 2011–12 :Division Three champions (1): 2010–11 :Division Five champions (1): 2009–10 :Division Six champions (1): 2007–08 * Southern Combination League :Division Two runners-up (2): 2018–19,

Cups

*Sommerville Challenge Cup : Winners (1): 2009–10 *Stratford Cup : Winners (1): 2009–10 *Mid-Sussex Senior Charity Cup : Winners (1): 2015–16

References

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