Sidmouth Town Association Football Club is a football club based in

Sidmouth Sidmouth () is a town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England, southeast of Exeter. With a population of 13,258 in 2021, it is a tourist resort and a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A large part of the town has ...

Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west ...

, England. They are currently members of the and play at Manstone Lane.

History

Sidmouth Town were members of the Exeter and District League for many decades, finishing as runners-up in the Premier Division in 1959–60, and winning it in 1967–68. They won the renamed Devon and Exeter League Premier Division in 2010–11, having finished as runners-up the previous season. They were subsequently promoted to the

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Division One East. At the end of 2018–19 the league was restructured, and Sidmouth successfully applied for promotion to the Premier Division East, at Step 6 of the

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. The club competed in the

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for the first time in 2018–19. They won their first-qualifying-round match 3–2 against Keynsham Town and followed that up with a second win, 4–1 against Godolphin Atlantic. Following these two matches, both against sides one level higher in the

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, they lost 5–0 in the first round proper to

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, from two levels above them. The 2024–25 season saw Sidmouth Town promoted to step five for the first time in the club's history, crowned champions of the South West Peninsula Premier Division East.

Honours

*South West Peninsula League **Division One East champions 2024–25 *Devon & Exeter League **Premier Division champions 1967–68, 2010–11

Records

*Best

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

performance: First round, 2024–25

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