Westfield Football Club is a semi-professional

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club based in the Westfield area of

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, England. The club is affiliated to the

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. They are currently members of the .

History

The club was established in 1953 as Westfield Boys Club and started playing in the local Woking and District Football league. During their time in the local leagues, the club won the Surrey Junior Charity Cup and the Surrey Junior Cup. After a few seasons, the club moved up to the Surrey intermediate leagues. For the 1962–63 season, the club joined the Parthenon League, now under the name of Westfield and finished runners-up at the first attempt. The following season saw the club join the

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. Their ninth season in the Surrey Senior League, 1972–73, saw the club clinch the league title and complete a double success by winning the league cup. Further success followed the next season as they successfully defended the league title. The 1974–75 campaign saw the club make their debut in the

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, where they lost to Chertsey Town, and finished bottom of the league; however, they did not suffer relegation back to the intermediate leagues. In 1978, the club became a founder member of the Home Counties Football League, which was then renamed the

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the following season. The club remained in the Combined Counties Football league for the next twenty-seven seasons, despite finishing in the bottom three times within this period. They also managed to advance to the Concours Challenge Trophy, but lost out to

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in the final. This period also saw the club enter the

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for the first time when they met

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in the extra preliminary qualifying round, but lost 2–1. The 2005–06 campaign saw the club finish in eleventh place, but they were relegated to Division one as their ground did not meet the criteria to remain in the Premier Division. In 2011–12, the club rewatched its first cup final for in twenty years when they met

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in the Division One Challenge Cup, but lost 4–2. In 2013, the club's youth team was transferred to the Sturridge Football Academy, owned by

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and operated in part by Leon Sturridge and Cleveland Clarke. However, as of May 2025, the U18s has been put back in control of the club. In 2017–18, Tony Reid's side went one better than their runners up position the previous season, after they clinched the

title with six games remaining. The Yellows beat local rivals

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4–1 at Woking Park (12 April 2018) to secure the championship and promotion to step 4 of the

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for the first time in their history. 2018-19 saw the club finish in 5th place, losing the play-off semi-final to Bracknell Town. The club remained in contention for promotion to the

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Premier Division during the 2019–20; however, the season was eventually abandoned due to the

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pandemic, after the UK Government placed all four nations on lockdown from 23 March 2020. This prompted Reid and his assistant Martyn Lee to resign on 15 April 2020, with both seeking new managerial roles within the higher echelons of the non-League football pyramid. On 16 May 2020, Westfield formally announced the appointment of Simon Lane, who had previously managed at Egham Town, Northwood, Windsor and Eton and Wingate and Finchley. On 9 February 2023, it was announced that Lane had left the Woking Park side to join Kingstonian. On 25 February 2023, the club announced it had appointed former

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and

midfielder Ian Selley. The 2023/24 season proved to be one of great excitement which saw the clubs reach the playoffs again but fell in extra time away to Marlow. A week later the club lifted the Aldershot Senior Cup for the first time after defeating

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on penalties. The Field had progressed to the final the previous season, where they met a then Combined Counties Division Badshot Lea side, but were defeated 2-0. On 16 May 2024, the club announced that Ian Selley had resigned so that he could take up the vacant Manager position at Leatherhead. He was replaced by player-manager Andrew Crossley, who guided the Field to a 12th placed finish in the 2024/25 campaign.

Ground

Westfield play their home games at Woking Park, Woking, Surrey, GU22 9BA. The ground is located on the north side of Kingfield Road, Woking, on the south side is fellow local non-league side

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The top of Woking's Leslie Gosden Stand and floodlights at

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are visible from the balcony at Woking Park. The Field moved to their current location around 1960, with floodlights being installed in 1998. Major work was undertaken to the ground in the 2010–11 season, which saw the building of a new stand and facilities and the pitch being dug up and raised in May 2011. A new 50 seater stand was constructed in March 2014 at the western end of the football ground to comply with FA Ground Grading requirements (shown in picture to right), this was later expanded to 104 seats in March 2019 following the club's promotion to the

Current squad

Staff

*President - David Robson *Chairman - Steve Perkins *Vice Chairman & Commercial Manager - Jim Ahmed *Honorary Secretary - Michael Powell *Match Secretary and Social Media Lead - Darren Pasley *Treasurer & Catering Manager - Maggie Powell *Safeguarding Officer - Michael Lawrence *Bar Manager - Neil Harding *Programme Editor and Social Media Assistant - Harrison Powell *Social Media Assistant - Tom Oxtoby *Hospitality Manager - Michael Robson *Videographer - Ben Bronx *Turnstile Operator - Chris Pasley *First Team Manager - Andrew Crossley *Assistant Managers - Dave Powell & Jake Baxter *Coaches - Ben Knight *Physio - Katie Williams *Vice Presidents - John Ellesley, Philip Arthur-Worsop, Peter Gales, Nobby Reynolds, Alan Evans, Brian Weston, John McIlhargy, John Ludlow, Mick Joseph, Doreen Cable, Michael Lawrence, Alan Morton, Graham Pope, Colin Rearden, Neil Harding, Pat Kelly, David Robson, Michael Robson, Martin Powell, Mark Pullen & Richard Hill (Last updated: 14 May 2025)

Honours

League honours

: ** Champions (1): 2017–18 ** Runners up (1): 2016–17 *

: ** Champions (2): 1972–73, 1973–74 *Parthenon League: ** Runners up (1): 1962–63

Cup honours

Premier Cup: ** Winners (1): 2016–17 *

Cup: ** Winners (2): 1971–72, 1972–73 *

Cup: ** Runners up (1): 1989–90 *

Division One Challenge Cup: ** Runners up (1): 2011–12 *Surrey FA Saturday Premier Cup : **Runners-up (1): 2012–13 *Surrey County Junior Cup: ** Winners (1): 1954–55 ** Runners up (2): 1955–56, 1957–58 *Surrey County Junior Charity Cup: ** Runners up (1): 1954–55 *Aldershot Senior Cup ** Winners (1): 2023-24 ** Runners up (1): 2022-23

Records

*Highest League Position: 5th in Isthmian League South Central Division - 2018–19 & 2023-24 *

best performance: 2nd Qualifying Round - 2022–23 *

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best performance: 1st Round Proper - 2023–24 *

best performance: Fourth round – 2000–01 *Highest Attendance: 325 vs

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2011–12 *Oldest Competitive Player: Roger Steer (1 appearance) 2017–18

Westfield Ladies

Westfield Football Club had operated a women's football team, Westfield Ladies FC. It had been affiliated to the men's team since forming in 2009 until 2014, and contributes into the club's community development programme. The Ladies won their respective league in their opening season and played their homes games at Woking Park. However, after only a few seasons the ladies team was dissolved leaving only the senior men's team and the reserves (now U18s).

References

External links

Official website
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