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BANSTEAD ATHLETIC

The club was established vision One.
in 1944 as Banstead Jun- In 1979 the
iors, before adopting their club switched
current name during the to the Athe-
1946–47 season. nian League,
After winning the Surrey Inter- where they re-
mediate Cup that season, the club mained until it
won back-to-back league titles be- disbanded in 1984,
fore moving up to the Surrey Sen- winning the League Cup in 1980–81.
ior League in 1949. They finished as When the league folded most clubs
runners-up in their first season, and (including Banstead) joining the
went on to win the league four times Isthmian League, with Banstead
in a row between 1950–51 and 1953– placed in Division Two South. The
54, with Harry Clark scoring 81 goals league was reorganised in 1991, with
in 26 games in 1950–51. The next the club placed in Division Two.
two seasons saw them finish as run- They remained in the division until
ners-up to Dorking, before they won 2002 when further league reorgani-
their fifth title in 1956–57. Although sation saw them moved to Division
they finished as runners-up again for One South. Two years later another
the next two seasons, the club went reorganisation saw them placed in
into decline at the start of the 1960s, Division One.
and finished second-from-bottom in Resigned from the Isthmian League
1961–62.
At the end of the 2005–06 season
Moved up to the Spartan League
Banstead resigned from the Isthmian
The 1964–65 season saw Banstead League and dropped into the Com-
win their sixth Surrey Senior League bined Counties League Premier Di-
title, claiming the championship vision. After finishing bottom of the
on goal average from Chobham, division in 2011–12 they were rel-
and they moved up to the Spartan egated to Division One. They were
League. When the league merged with Division One champions in 2016–17,
the Metropolitan–London League in earning promotion back to the Pre-
1975, forming the London Spartan mier Division. Source Wiki
League, Banstead were placed in Di-