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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