Faversham Strike Force Football Club is a football club based in

Faversham Faversham () is a market town in Kent, England, from Sittingbourne, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2 road (Great ...

, England. They are currently members of the and groundshare with Faversham Town since 2022, having previously shared with Rochester United at the Rochester United Sports Ground,

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History

Faversham Strike Force were founded in 1999 by Gary Axford as a youth football club. In 2012, the club formed a senior team, competing in the Canterbury & District League as Faversham Harlequins. In 2013, back under the Faversham Strike Force guise, the club joined the

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Division Two East, winning promotion in their first season in the league. The following season, the club joined the Division One East, winning the league. In 2015–16, Faversham Strike Force joined the Kent County League Premier Division, winning the league. In 2021, the club was admitted into the

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Division One. Faversham Strike Force entered the

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for the first time in 2021–22. Manager Gary Axford stepped down during the 2023–24 season, the role going to his deputy Stuart Benfield. Stuart Benfield gotten them promoted in his season season winning SCEFL division one in 2024 - 25 season.

Ground

In 2020, after six years at Sittingbourne Community College, Faversham Strike Force agreed a groundsharing agreement with Rochester United to play at the Rochester United Sports Ground,

. For the 2022–23 season a new groundshare would be announced with Faversham Town, which was extended to the end of the 2024–25 season during 2023. In April 2025, the club announced a new groundshare agreement with Whitstable Town for two seasons.

Records

*Best

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performance: Extra preliminary round, 2025–26 (ongoing) *Best

performance: First round, 2024–25

References

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