West Hampstead F.C.

Former football team

West Hampstead was a football team that formerly played in the Southern Football League.[1]

Football club

West HampsteadFull name| West Hampstead F.C.

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Nickname(s)| the Wests[2]
Founded| 1893
Dissolved| 1911
Ground| Cricklewood Lane/Lower Welsh Harp

Home colours

## History

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The first reference to the club was in 1893,[3] and in 1897 they joined Division Two of the London League.[1]

They were elected to Division Two of the Southern League for the 1901/02 season, winning six of their 16 league matches. They left the league at the end of the season.[4]

In 1905/06 they reached the 4th Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, losing to Swindon Town.[5]

There were suggestions that the club had "broken up" before the 1910–11 season, but the club did survive long enough to play in the qualifying rounds of the 1910–11 FA Cup,[6] but the club resigned from the London League before September was out,[7] and the club did not re-emerge for the 1911–12 season.

## Colours

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The club wore light blue shirts,[8] with black shorts and stockings.[1]

## Ground

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The club's initial ground was near Hampstead Cemetery.[1] In 1897 it moved to a ground between Willesden Green station and Exeter Road,[9] and in 1901 to a new enclosure at Child's Hill, Cricklewood Lane.[10] In 1907 the club moved to its final ground, at the Lower Welsh Harp in West Hendon.[11]

## Notable players

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* Samuel Downing, later of Chelsea F.C.[12]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms (13 June 2014). "West Hampstead's astonishing football pedigree". West Hampstead Life. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
2. ^ "Hendon (3) v West Hampstead (4)". Hendon & Finchley Times: 2. 16 September 1910.
3. ^ Sporting Life 23 September 1893
4. ^ Dinant Abbink (24 June 2005). "Final Tables Division Two". England - Southern League Final Tables. RSSSF. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
5. ^ "West Hampstead". F.C.H.D. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
6. ^ "Apsley defeated". Buckinghamshire Examiner: 8. 23 September 1910.
7. ^ Hudson, S. (30 September 1910). "Football and cricket". Woolwich Herald: 2.
8. ^ "F. Halsall". Athletic News: 4. 14 April 1902.
9. ^ "West Hampstead Football Club". Willesden Chronicle: 8. 8 October 1897.
10. ^ "Local jottings". Hampstead News: 6. 12 September 1901.
11. ^ "Sports and pastimes". Hendon & Finchley Times: 2. 6 September 1907.
12. ^ "Hendon (3) v West Hampstead (4)". Hendon & Finchley Times: 2. 16 September 1910.