Heavitree United Football Club is an English
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club based in
Heavitree
Heavitree is a historic village and former civil parish situated formerly outside the walls of the City of Exeter in Devon, England, and is today an eastern district of that city. It was formerly the first significant village outside the city o ...
,
Exeter
Exeter ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and the county town of Devon in South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol.
In Roman Britain, Exeter w ...
, Devon. From 1976 to 1999, the club played in the
Western League. They are currently members of the .
History
Formed in 1885, Heavitree United played at various locations in and around Heavitree Park until World War II. Around 1950, they moved to Wingfield Park. Playing in local leagues until 1976 and attracting crowds of up to 5,000, they moved up from the Devon and Exeter League to the new First Division of the Western League for the
1976–77 season.
[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
Heavitree never managed to gain promotion to the Premier Division, and usually struggled in the First, their best finish being 10th in
1985–86.
They finished bottom in their first season and in
1991–92, and again in
1998–99, after which the club dropped down to the
Devon County League
The Devon County Football League was a football competition based in England. It consisted of 20 clubs and sat at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System.
History
The league was formed in 1992 in order to form an intermediate level bet ...
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The club found little success at this lower level, although they finished fourth in 2000–01. Heavitree dropped down a further level in 2004 when they left the Devon County League and merged with Heavitree Social Club F.C. in the Devon and Exeter League.
In 2011 Heavitree United started a youth team, run by former player and Sunday team manager Liam Bolt.
Ground
Heavitree United FC & Heavitree United Youth FC both play their home games at Wingfield Park, East Wonford Hill, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3BS.
Wingfield Park has seen some major improvements over the past few years with a new stand being erected around the main pitch, and a floodlit 3G training pitch installed. The club have also had their old changing facilities demolished and replaced with new changing rooms, with a tea bar and seating area.
References
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Football clubs in Devon
Western Football League
Association football clubs established in 1885
1885 establishments in England
Football clubs in England
Devon and Exeter Football League
Devon Football League