Crediton United Association Football Club is a football club based in

Crediton Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, about north west of Exeter and around from the M5 motorwa ...

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at Lords Meadow.

History

The club was established in 1910, holding their first general meeting on 10 September, and immediately joined the Exeter & District League.Crediton United Centenary 1910-2010
Crediton United A.F.C. After

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the club was reformed as Crediton Association Football Club, before reverting to its previous name in August 1919. They won the East Devon Senior Cup in 1933–34, beating Topsham St Margarets 2–1 in the final.East Devon Senior Cup
Devon & Exeter League In 1962–63 the club were champions of Division One, earning promotion to the Premier Division.Division One champions
Devon & Exeter League
Non-League Matters Although they were relegated to Division One at the end of the 1965–66 season, having finished second-from-bottom of the Premier Division, the club were Division One champions the following season and were promoted back to the Premier Division. Crediton were relegated from the Premier Division after finishing bottom of the table in 1968–69. The league was renamed the Devon & Exeter League in 1972 and the club returned to the Premier Division after finishing as runners-up in Division One in 1984–85.Devon & Exeter League history 1972–2000
Non-League Matters They were Premier Division champions in 1987–88 and runners-up the following season. After finishing fourth in the division in 1989–90, the club moved up to Division One of the Western League. A third-place finish in

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saw them promoted to the Premier Division, where they remained until the end of the 1995–96 season when they finished bottom of the table and were relegated to Division One. In 1998 Crediton resigned from the Western League due to travelling costs, dropping into the

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. In 2007 the league merged with the

South Western League The South Western Football League was an English association football league composed of clubs from Cornwall and west and north Devon. It consisted of a single division at the eleventh overall tier of the English football league system, the seve ...

to form the

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, with Crediton placed in Division One East. Following league reorganisation at the end of the 2018–19 season, the club were elevated to the Premier Division East.

Ground

The club moved to their Lords Meadow ground in 1976.

Honours

*Devon & Exeter League **Premier Division champions 1987–88 **Division One champions 1962–63, 1966–67 *East Devon Senior Cup **Winners 1933–34

Records

*Best

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performance: First round, 1991–92, 1992–93, 2017–18

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