North Greenford United

North Greenford United Football Club is a football club based in Greenford in the London Borough of Ealing, England. They play in the Combined Counties League Premier Division North. The club is affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association.

History

Established in 1944, originally as a youth club and started playing senior football in the 1946–47 season when they joined the Hanwell and District League, finishing as runners-up at the first attempt. A season later the club joined the Harrow Wembley League, and winning the senior division of that league at the end of the 1954–55 season. The club then played in the Middlesex League Premier Division In the 1982–83 season they won the Middlesex League Premier Division and gained promotion to Division One of the London Spartan League.

At the end of the 1987–88 season the club gained promotion to the Premier Division of the London Spartan League. At the end of the 1993–94 season the club left the Spartan league, and dropped down a level to the Middlesex County Football League Premier Division. The club then lost its senior status with the Middlesex County Football Association and spent the next few seasons upgrading their ground to move from intermediate status back up to senior status. This work culminated in the club being elected to the Combined Counties Football League for the start of the 2002–03 season.

The club finished as runners-up in the league in their third season in the league. That season, they also made their debut in the FA Cup, making it to the First Qualifying Round before being knocked out by Hemel Hempstead Town. The club then repeated this finish four seasons later in the 2008–09 season. The following season the club went one better as they became champions of the Combined Counties Football League, and earned promotion to Division One Central of the Southern Football League.