Greenways Football Club is a

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club based in

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Rochester United Sports Ground in

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History

The club was established as

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Football Club in 1965.Greenways
Southern Counties East Football League They joined Division Four of the Gravesend League and were runners-up in their first season, earning promotion to Division Three. The following season they were runners-up in Division Three and were promoted to Division Two. After changing their name to Greenways Football Club, they won the Division Two title in 1967–68, resulting in promotion to Division One. The club were Division One runners-up in 1968–69, securing a fourth successive promotion, this time to the Premier Division. Greenways went on to win the Premier Division seven times between 1973–74 and 1978–88, as well as winning Group 'A' of the Kent Junior Cup three times. The 1986–87 season saw them win the Premier Division, the Kent Intermediate Shield, the Gordon Charity Shield and the Mallinson Hospital Cup. In 1988 they moved up to the

Kent County League The Kent County Football League (known as the Kent County League) is a football competition based in Kent, England and adjacent area. The league was founded in 1922 as the Kent Amateur Football League and comprised Eastern and Western sections w ...

, joining the Premier Division of the Western Section. They won the Inter-Regional Challenge Cup and the Premier Division title in their first season, earning promotion to the Senior Division.Kent County League 1984–1991
Non-League Matters When the Eastern and Western sections merged in 1992, the club were placed in the Premier Division,
Non-League Matters and were runners-up in the division in 1993–94. After finishing second-from-bottom of the division in 2004–05, they were relegated to Division One West. Despite only finishing fifth in Division One West in 2010–11, Greenways were promoted back to the Premier Division as several clubs left the league to form the Kent Invicta League. The club won the Kent Intermediate Shield for the second time in 2012–13. In 2016–17 they were runners-up in Premier Division and won the Inter-Regional Challenge Cup. After finishing second in the league again in 2017–18, they were promoted to Division One of the

Southern Counties East League The Southern Counties East Football League is an English football league established in 1966, which has teams based in Kent and Southeast London. Its two divisions are allocated at Step 5 and Step 6 of the National League System (which equates ...

.It had to be right for us long-term and this season we felt we had everything in order to allow us to progress, says Greenways player-manager Rob Jeffery
Kentish Football, 25 May 2018

Honours

*Kent County League **Western Section Premier Division champions 1988–89 **Inter-Regional Challenge Cup winners 1988–89, 2016–17 *Gravesend League **Premier Division champions 1986–87 **Division Two champions 1967–68 **Mallinson Hospital Cup winners 1986–87 **Gordon Charity Shield winners 1986–87 *Kent Intermediate Shield **Winners 1986–87, 2012–13

Records

*Best

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performance: First round, 2023–24

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