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Visitors Longwell Green
Sports F.C.

Founded in June 1966 following the great upsurge of interest in football
following England’s World Cup success of Bobby Moore and the England
Team

Longwell Green Sports were originally formed from the workforce of the
areas main employer, Longwell Green Coachworks, the team was run for
many years by Harold Harding, a well know character in and around
Longwell Green.

The first pitch was laid out on the same site of today’s pitch and was, in
1966, open farmland. In its early years Longwell Green played in what was
the Saturday Regional League and by the early seventies progressed to the
District League.

By 1980 our current General Manager, John Gibbs joined the club along with
several other players from Kingswood including our Reserves Team
Manager, Jeff Fishlock. In 1982 the club became District League Division 4
Champions losing only 3 games all season.

In 1983 the club gained promotion to District Division 2, the following
season the Reserve Team was formed. The first team won promotion 5
times in 9 seasons including Division 1 runners up and Senior District and
Bristol Combination Premier Division 1 runners up in successive seasons,
reaching Bristol Premier Division in 1997. The following season the club
finished third, 2 points behind Bitton & Frampton and lifted the Premier Cup
beating Highridge 3-2.

Our Reserves, by 1993, had reached District Division 2 following several
promotions with many goals being scored by our current 3 Team Manager,
rd
Andy Britton.

In 2002 the first team reached the GFA Senior Amateur Cup final played at
County HQ, loosing on
to Nicholas Wanders.