Lordswood Football Club is a
football
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club based in the
Lordswood suburb of
Chatham,
England
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. They are currently members of the and play at Martyn Grove.
History
The club was established in 1968.
[ They joined the Rochester and District League and were promoted in successive seasons to the Premier Division.][History]
Lordswood F.C. In 1982 the club moved up to Division Two of the Western Section of the Kent County League
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The league was founded in 1922 as the Kent Amateur Football League and comprised Eastern and Western sections w ...
.[Kent County Amateur League 1979–1984]
Non-League Matters A third-place finish in their first season in the division saw them promoted to Division One.[ In 1984–85 the club were Division One runners-up, earning promotion to the Premier Division of the Western Section.]
Non-League Matters[ They were subsequently Senior Division runners-up in 1989–90.][ Although the club finished bottom of the Senior Division in 1991–92, league reorganisation and a merger of the Eastern and Western sections saw them placed in the Premier Division of the league the following season.]
Non-League MattersSouthern Counties East League
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, and following the addition of a second division in 2016, the club became members of the league's Premier Division.[ They finished the 2021–22 season in the relegation zone, but were reprieved due to vacancies in divisions above. After 31 years in the same division, Lordswood were relegated in the 2024–25 season, finishing bottom of the table and going through 3 managerial changes over the course of the season.
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Ground
The club play at Martyn Grove. The ground has hardstanding on three sides of the pitch and a 123-seat stand on the southern side of the ground. The record attendance of 600 was set for a friendly match against Gillingham in July 2003 to mark the opening of a new boardroom, with the visitors winning 5–0.[ That record was then broken in 2024, when a crowd of 745 watched Lordswood face ]Sittingbourne
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in an FA Cup Qualifying match.
Records
*Best FA Cup
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performance: Second qualifying round, 2024–25[
*Best ]FA Vase
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performance: Fourth round, 2012–13
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*Record attendance: 745 vs ]Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, from Canterbury and from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.
The town stands next to th ...
, FA Cup second qualifying round, 14 September 2024
See also
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References
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Football clubs in England
Football clubs in Kent
Association football clubs established in 1968
1968 establishments in England
Sport in Medway
Chatham, Kent
Kent County League
Southern Counties East Football League