Enfield

Enfield Football Club is a football club traditionally based in Enfield, Greater London, England. Between the 1960s and 1980s, Enfield were one of the most successful non-league clubs in England, winning the FA Amateur Cup, FA Trophy and Football Conference twice. However, after selling their Southbury Road ground in the 1990s, the club declined, eventually folding and reforming in 2007.

They are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at Woodside Park in Bishop's Stortford; which they share with owners Bishop's Stortford F.C.

History

Early years

John Bruce Skinner founded Enfield Football Club in August 1893 as Enfield Spartans, and the club spent its initial season playing friendlies. The start of the 1894–95 season saw the club play league football for the first time when it joined the Tottenham & District Junior Alliance League. The club made the move to the larger Tucker's Field and joined the North Middlesex League in 1896. In 1900 the club dropped the Spartans from the end of its name – this name is now used by a local Youth Football Club – and also made the move to Cherry Orchard Lane. This picked things up at the club and in the 1901–02 and 1902–03 seasons it won back-to-back league titles and so attained ‘senior’ status. The 1903 saw the club join the London League Division Two. It won the title in 1911 and so gained promotion to the Premier Division. Most of the next 50 years, the club played in the Athenian League.

After the First World War, Enfield disbanded. Members of Grange Park F.C., which had been a local junior club before the war, held a meeting at the Bell Inn, Baker Street, Enfield in May 1919 with a view to stepping up to senior football and taking on the mantle of Enfield. The decision to become the "new" Enfield was taken the next month.

Isthmian League years

They enjoyed little success until the arrival of Thomas Lawrence in the early 1960s. Lawrence was a charismatic centre forward who a

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