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Today's Visitors                                                                    2017 -18, Fleets 16th consecutive     2 chairmen and a number of players.

                                                                                          season at Step 4 Steve Dormer and     With much long distance travel, a
      Season 08/09 had the club on the      ber 2011 to be replaced by Craig              Andy Hunt managed to keep us at       very young team and no money the
      move yet again with promotions/       Davis as player/manager. Despite              Step 4 through a difficult season.    team battled all season but unfortu-
      relegations elsewhere meaning that    some improved displays, the Blues             With both managers resigning at the  nately finished bottom, this resulted
      Fleet returned to the Ryman League,  faced relegation after ending the              end of the season, the club moving    in relegation to the Wessex Premier
      South Division. Andy Sinton’s side    season in 21st spot. However, due             to the Southern League South Divi-    League. For 2019-20 there is a new
      again broke more records as the       to circumstances elsewhere in the             sion and all players leaving 2018-19   board in place to support Dave Kelly
      team won four cups, including the     Football pyramid Fleet Town gained            is already looking like a challenge.   and his management team as they
      prestigious Hampshire Senior Cup      an FA reprieve and retained their             Koo Dumbuya and Sam Waters have  try to develop young players and
      when over 1,200 witnessed victory     place as a Southern League club, to           taken the helm and are aiming to      re-establish Fleet as a strong team
      over VTFC at St Marys Stadium,        play a 2nd season in the Division             keep us at Step 4 for another season.  in North Hampshire. Many im-
      Southampton, to send the cup to       One Central for season 2012/13.                       New board in place            provements and changes have been
      Fleet for the first time. In addition   Steve Cantle became Chairman                2018-19 will go down as a season      carried out to the Calthorpe Park
      the team also won the Russell Cotes   In July 2012 Steve Cantle became              to forget for Fleet, after just manag-  ground which will also hopefully
      Cup, Aldershot Senior & North         Chairman and with Davis bringing              ing to stay up the year before they   help the club moving forward.
      Hants cups. The FA Cup run again      in a new back-room staff, and a host          managed to go through 4 managers,
      went to the 3rd Qualifying Round      of new players, the club enjoyed an
      before losing 5-2 in a bruising en-   improved Southern League season,                    RECENT RESULTS - COMBINED COUNTIES LEAGUE
      counter at AFC Totton.                finishing with 4 teams behind them,
            Andy Sinton resigning           in 18th spot. Following the end of             12/03   Fleet Town                 2–3        Redhill
      May 2010 brought major changes        the season Fleet Town were again               05/03   Cobham                     1–2        Fleet Town
      at the club with Chairman Graham      moved, this time within the South-
      Smith stepping down and this was      ern League to the Div One South &              26/02   Banstead Ath               1–2        Fleet Town
      shortly followed by manager Andy      West.
      Sinton resigning to join AFC Telford        League status retained                   12/02   Fleet Town                 0–2        Balham
      United. For the new season Steve      After several difficult seasons the            29/02   Beckenham Town             3–1        Fleet Town
      Mellor stepped into the Manager’s     2015/16 season saw Fleet moved
      shoes.  A largely new Blues side fin-  back to the Division One Central,             22/02   Redhill                    3–2        Fleet Town
      ished a credible 13th.                and they enjoyed 2 successful sea-             15/01   Fleet Town                 0–4        Farnham Town
              Results were poor             sons with league status retained and
       Season 2011-12 again saw Fleet       the winning of the Aldershot Senior            03/01   Fleet Town                 3–2        Guildford City
      Town move as they were switched       Cup and the North Hants Senior                 27/12   Badshot Lea                2–3        Fleet Town
      back to the Southern League after a   Cup in 2017. The Club however
      three year absence, this time placed   suffered the devastating loss of              18/12   Frimley Green              2–1        Fleet Town
      in the Div One Central. However       Chairman Steve Cantle who died
      results were poor and after a run of   just before Christmas and manager             14/12   Fleet Town                 3–0        Molesey
      defeats and exiting the major cup     Davis moved on in March.                       11/12   Fleet Town                 0–3        Jersey Bulls
      competitions Mellor left in Novem-
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