Oxhey Jets Football Club is an English semi-professional football club based in

South Oxhey South Oxhey is a suburb of Watford in the Watford Rural parish of the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the south western corner of Hertfordshire and close to the boundary with Greater London. At the 2011 Census ...

- a suburb of

Watford Watford () is a town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Colne. Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal en ...

, Hertfordshire. Founded by John R Elliott BEM, their General Manager. They currently compete in the

Combined Counties League The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's football league in south-eastern England with members in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Jersey, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and the western half and ...

Division one and play their home matches at The Boundary Stadium on Altham Way. The club is affiliated to the Hertfordshire Football Association.

History

Oxhey Jets Football Club was formed in 1972 as a youth team, before progressing into a senior team in the early 1980s. The Jets joined the

Herts Senior County League The Hertfordshire Senior County League is a football competition based in Hertfordshire, England. Founded in 1898, there are currently two divisions at senior level and two divisions at reserve and development level. Sitting at step 7 of the N ...

in 1981, competing in Division One. After gaining promotion in 1989, the club spent fifteen seasons in the Premier Division before being rewarded with a place in the

Spartan South Midlands League The Spartan South Midlands Football League is an English football league covering Hertfordshire, northwest Greater London, central Buckinghamshire and southern Bedfordshire. It is a feeder to the Southern Football League or the Isthmian League, ...

in 2004. The 2004–05 season saw The Jets gain their second successive promotion when they became

Division One champions. As a result of competing in the Premier Division in the 2005–06 season, they were able to make their debut in the

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competit ...

. Unfortunately, The Jets lost at home to

Lowestoft Town Lowestoft Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club from Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. They are currently members of the and play at Crown Meadow. History The club was established in 1887 as Lowestoft F.C. by a merger of East Suf ...

in the preliminary round. In February 2012, Oxhey Jets became only the second ever

club to reach the final of the

Herts Senior Cup The Herts Senior Cup, officially titled the Hertfordshire County Football Association Senior Challenge Cup, is the oldest County-based football Cup competition based exclusively in Hertfordshire, England. It was first contested in the 1886-87 ...

, when they overcame

Cheshunt Cheshunt ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of London on the River Lea and Lee Navigation. It contains a section of the Lee Valley Park, including much of the River Lee Country Park. To the north lies Broxbourne and Wormley, Waltha ...

in the semi-final. They were beaten 7–2 in the final by

Bishop's Stortford Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, just west of the M11 motorway on the county boundary with Essex, north-east of central London, and by rail from Liverpool Street station. Stortford had an estimated popu ...

. Having spent 18 years as part of the Spartan South Midlands League, in May 2022 Oxhey Jets were unexpectedly shuffled sideways into the

Premier Division North from the 2022–23 season.

Honours

League

Division One : ** Champions: 2004–05 *

Premier Division: ** Champions: 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03 ** Runners-up: 2003–04

Cup

: ** Finalists: 2011–12 *Hertfordshire Senior Centenary Trophy: ** Winners: 2001–02, 2004–05 *Hertfordshire Charity Shield: ** Winners: 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13 *

Premier Division Cup: ** Finalists: 2006–07 *

Division One Cup: ** Finalists: 2004–05 *

Senior Floodlit Cup: ** Finalists: 2008–09, 2012–13 *West Herts St Mary's Cup: ** Winners: 2011–12, 2013–14 ** Finalists: 2007–08, 2009–10 *Aubrey Cup: ** Winners: 2001–02, 2002–03

Records

*League: 3rd (

Premier Division), 2012–13 *

: 2nd Qualifying Round, 2006–07, 2011–12 *

FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English footb ...

: 3rd Round, 2006–07, 2012–2013 *Attendance: 376 v Hendon (

2nd Qualifying Round), 2011–12 *Top scorer: George Walley, 914 goals, 2009-14

References

External links

Website
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