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WELLS CITY F.C.

Wells City Football Club was founded on May 27 1890 when a meeting
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was held in the Star Hotel in Wells. Success was immediate winning the
first ever Somerset league title a feat repeated the following year. In
1892/93 Wells entered the Bristol & District league, the forbearer of
today’s Toolstation Western League of which Wells is a founder member.
It was recorded that it was a Wells player who scored the first ever goal
on the opening day of the season in a 2-0 victory Vs Mangotsfield. In
1893/4 Wells re-joined the Somerset Senior league as well as moving to
their present location at Rowdens Road. Wells were invited back into the
Western League in1928/29 and competed in both the Somerset and
Western leagues eventually leaving the county league in 1931. After the
war years Wells competed in Div. 1of the Western league eventually
winning being crowned champions in 1949/50 pipping Poole Town on
goal difference. Success became more difficult in the following years
and Wells City re-joined the Somerset Senior League in 1960-61 with the
Reserves competing in the Mid-Somerset Football League. The club
finished very much mid –table until 1965-66 when they were third
behind Street and Welton Rovers Reserves. They were Runners-Up
behind Paulton Rovers in 1971-82.

Between 1977 and 1998 Wells suffered from the yo-yo effect, promotion
to the Premier division one year, relegation the next. It wasn’t until the
1999/2000 season that Wells once again cemented themselves in the
County’s premier division.