Windsor Home Park F.C.

Windsor Home Park F.C. were an amateur football club who featured in the early years of the FA Cup.[1]

Windsor Home Park F.C.
Full nameWindsor Home Park Football Club
Foundedc. 1870
Dissolved1882 (became Windsor F.C.)
GroundWindsor Home Park

History

A cricket ground opened in Windsor Home Park in the summer of 1850, and Windsor Home Park Cricket Club started playing matches in that year.[2][3] While there is some evidence of a "Home Park Football Club" existing in Windsor as early as 1854,[4] a later newspaper article definitively states that "The Windsor Home Park Football Club played their first match" in December 1870.[5] The club played regularly against local rivals such as Maidenhead F.C. and Great Marlow F.C.. In 1872-3 and 1874-5, it entered the FA Cup.

In September 1882, the club amalgamated with local rivals Grosvenor Football Club to form Windsor Football Club.[6]

References
  1. Windsor Home Park at the Football Club History Database
  2. "Cricketers' Register". Bell's Life in London: 6. 30 June 1850.
  3. "Further Matches to Come". Bell's Life in London: 7. 7 July 1850.
  4. "W. Runicles: Carver, Gilder and Picture Frame Maker [advertisement]". Windsor and Eton Express: 1. 7 October 1854. A newspaper advertisement for W. Runicles, of Eton High Street, boasts of patronage by "H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, the Young Gentlemen of Eton College, and the Members of the Home Park Football Club".
  5. "Football". Windsor and Eton Express. lix (3046): 4. 10 December 1870.
  6. "The Windsor Football Club". Windsor and Eton Express. lxxi (3662): 4. 30 September 1882.


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