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Corsham Town Football Club

The earliest record found of Corsham Football Club is 1878 with the club
becoming affiliated to the Football Association in 1893. Over the years,
the team has often been referred to as the Quarrymen due to the high
level of quarrying in and around Corsham.
In March 1894, the first Wiltshire Football League was formed with the
original member clubs being Bradford, Calne, Chippenham, Corsham,
Southbroom (Devizes), Melksham, Trowbridge Town, and Warminster.
At the end of the 1894/95 season Corsham would be the inaugural
champions, winning the league on goal average over Southbroom, helped by an emphatic 17
- 1 win over Calne in their final game.
Corsham played on an area of land adjacent to the present-day Recreation Ground from 1912.
After the Second World War council houses were built on the pitch and after missing the
opportunity to relocate to the Grove Field, next to the cricket ground moved to the club’s
present home at Southbank, Lacock Road in 1949.
Promotion was achieved to the Western League at the end of the 1997/98 season after
winning the county league by goal difference from Devizes Town Reserves.
Ground improvements continued under the chairmanship of Colin Hudd, floodlights were
installed in 2001, a 112 spectator stand erected and hard standing laid around the pitch
perimeter.
With the restructuring of the Western League, 2004/05 saw Corsham Town in the Western
League Premier Division, finishing runners up at the first attempt and winning the Wiltshire
Senior Cup.
The success was to continue in the 2005/06 season with Corsham once again runners up in
the Premier Division, a Les Phillips Cup Final victory over Willand Rovers and another Wiltshire
Senior Cup win, this time over Melksham Town.
2006/07 season saw Corsham Town winning the Western League Premier Division, which was
hotly contested by many teams, including Bridgwater Town and Frome Town. The club also
added a third successive Wiltshire Senior Cup victory, again over local rivals Melksham Town.
Justin Flowers was promoted to first team manager for the 2018/19 season following the
surprise resignation of first team manager Jamie Harrison, who has accepted a higher position
at Yeovil Town Academy.
Justin Flowers has been at the club since he was 16, playing in our U18’s, Reserves, and 1st
team, and is one of the club’s most decorated players. More recently he has managed the
reserve team where he has also been successful. He was assisted by Phil Golding; Graham
Learmonth and his ever-faithful physio Stuart Joslin.
Due to the Covid pandemic the 2019/20 season was declared null and void by the Football
Association on 26th March 2020.
Justin Flowers and his backroom staff parted with the club at the end of the null and void
2019/20 season and moved across to Malmesbury Victoria.
The 2020/21 season saw Keiran Baggs becoming the new manager with Gary Higdon as his
assistant. Unfortunately, after 10 league games the 2020/21 was curtailed by the FA due to
the Covid pandemic.
Despite the last two seasons being affected by Covid, the FA went ahead with planned
restructuring of the Non-League Pyramid. The results from 2019/20 & 2021/21 were
combined and this meant that Corsham Town finished in a position for upward movement.
The club took this upward movement to Step 5 with a lateral movement in the Hellenic
League Premier Division.