Sutton Common Rovers

Sutton Common Rovers Football Club is a semi-professional football club currently based in Sutton, London, England and named for Sutton Common. The club competes in the Isthmian League South Central Division. The club was originally based in Carshalton but in 2007 moved to River Lane, Leatherhead as they moved into the Combined Counties League. At the start of the 2009–10 season the club moved into a groundshare with Cobham. At the end of the 2014–15 season the club announced that it would be groundsharing with Sutton United for the 2015–16 season.

Sutton Common Rovers won the 2018-19 Cherry Red Records Premier Challenge Cup.

History

The club was formed in 1978, by Alan Salmon, as Inrad F.C. and was later called Centre 21 F.C. following a sponsorship deal before changing name once again to Sutton Common Rovers (SCR) with the SCR being followed by various names, SCR PLOUGH, SCR GRAPES, SCR LITTEN TREE and SCR Kingfisher which changed when club sponsorships changed. The club started in Saturday league football in 2004–05 and dropped the sponsorship names, becoming just SCR as the club wanted to distance itself from the image of being a pub team.

In the 2006–07 campaign the club was playing in the Surrey South Eastern Combination league, where they finished third on goal difference, and had an application to join the Combined Counties League rejected. The following season the club joined the Middlesex County League Premier Division and finished in third place which this time earned the club promotion to the Combined Counties League. In 2008 they were renamed Mole Valley SCR and after missing promotion on goal difference in their debut season, they won division one the following season and were promoted to the premier division. As a consequence of this promotion they were eligible to play in the FA Cup, having also featured in the FA Vase the season before, making their debut in the Extra Preliminary round against Chertsey Town, but lo