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position all season and finally clinch   season saw progress in the FA Cup                 RECENT RESULTS - COMBINED COUNTIES LEAGUE
      2nd place with a 3-0 victory over     again before succumbing to Herne
      Cobham FC. The club also won its      Bay United after a replay but after             02/04  AFC Croydon Athletic        4–2        Farnham Town
      2nd piece of silverware when win-     27 games the season was aban-
      ning the London Senior Trophy         doned. Season 2020/21 started                   29/03  Redhill                     1–1        AFC Croydon Athletic
      beating Interwood 4-3 after extra     late with a thriller of an FA Cup tie
      time.                                 against Sutton Common Rovers with               26/03  Fleet Town                  2–0        AFC Croydon Athletic
                Kevin Rayner                a record 174 turning up but the sea-            23/03  Guildford City              1–3        AFC Croydon Athletic
      With the FA Leagues Committee         son would again be curtailed after
      having placed the club in The South-  just 12 matches.                                19/03  AFC Croydon Athletic        1–2        Badshot Lea
      ern Counties East Football League            Combined Counties
      (formally the Kent League) following  A reorganisation means that it is               15/03  AFC Croydon Athletic        0–2        Raynes Park Vale
      promotion for the 2015/16 season      time to move back to the Combined
      the club then maintained their posi-  Counties Football League Premier                08/03  AFC Croydon Athletic        2–2        Jersey Bulls
      tion in the League by finishing 11th.  Division South for the 2021/22 sea-            05/03  Colliers Wood Utd           1–0        AFC Croydon Athletic
      Antony Williams resigned to take      son with the firm wish that we have
      over at Chipstead FC and the club     a full season to look forward to.               26/02  AFC Croydon Athletic        4–0        Molesey
      replaced him with Kevin Rayner as
      they looked to continue the progress                                                  12/02  AFC Croydon Athletic        3–4        Walton & Hersham
      they have made.                                                                       05/02  AFC Croydon Athletic        0–0        Knaphill
              Highest position
      His first season saw a 7th place                                                      01/02  AFC Croydon Athletic        0–3        Beckenham Town
      finish which remains our highest po-
      sition.   It was hoped that this would                                                29/01  Camberley Town              1–0        AFC Croydon Athletic
      enable the team to progress further                                                   22/01  Badshot Lea                 5–0        AFC Croydon Athletic
      but successive seasons have seen
      mid-table finishes. In 2017/18 they                                                   15/01  Jersey Bulls                6–0        AFC Croydon Athletic
      slipped to 13th and the following
      year they went down to 15th. How-                                                     11/12  AFC Croydon Athletic        3–3        Horley Town
      ever, in 2018/19 saw progress in the                                                  04/12  Knaphill                    1–1        AFC Croydon Athletic
      FA Cup for the first time which co-
      incided with their first home tie too.                                                27/11  AFC Croydon Athletic        2–1        Banstead Athletic
      A 5-0 victory over Rochester United
      and then a 1-0 replay win over Han-                                                   20/11  Molesey                     3–2        AFC Croydon Athletic
      worth Villa saw a First Qualifying
      Round tie.                                                                            06/11  AFC Croydon Athletic        1–1        Fleet Town
              Global pandemic                                                               23/10  Cobham                      5–0        AFC Croydon Athletic
      Since then the global pandemic has    Action from earlier in the season
      curtailed two seasons. The 2019/20                                                    16/10  Farnham Town                0–1        AFC Croydon Athletic
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