Windsor F.C. (1882)

Windsor Football Club was an English association football club based in Berkshire. The club was founded in September 1882 as a merger between the Windsor Home Park and Grosvenor clubs.[1]

Not to be confused with Windsor F.C. (2011).

Windsor
Full nameWindsor F.C.
Founded1882
Dissolved1890?
GroundWindsor Home Park

History

The club entered the FA Cup three times in the 1880s, its best run coming in its first entry, in 1882-83, reaching the third round. Although the club had been drawn at home to the Clapham Rovers, the tie was played at the St Mark's College ground, probably because Home Park was waterlogged.[2]

The club's final entry in 1884-85 ended in withdrawal, after being drawn away at Chatham, although the club was more successful at local level. Windsor won the Berks & Bucks Senior Cup twice; in 1884 beating South Reading 6-2[3] after an initial drawn match,[4] and beating the same opponents 2–0 in 1887.[5]

In 1888 Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein was elected as a club member.[6] However, by 1890 the club seems to have been in abeyance, other than as a social concern; playing loyalties had switched to Windsor Phoenix, who would eventually become Windsor & Eton.

Colours

The club listed its colours as chocolate and light blue,[7] probably in halves as that was a popular design for the colours.

Honours

FA Cup

  • Best performance: 1882-83: 3rd Round (last 25)

Berks & Bucks Senior Cup

  • Winners: 1883–84, 1886–87
  • Runners-up: 1884-85[8]

References
  1. "The Windsor Football Club". Windsor and Eton Express. lxxi (3662): 4. 30 September 1882.
  2. "report". Football: A Weekly Record of the Game: 233. 10 January 1883.
  3. "Yesterday's Sports". Lloyd's Weekly Register: 1. 9 March 1884.
  4. "Berks & Bucks Challenge Cup". Lloyd's Weekly News: 2. 2 March 1884.
  5. "Berks & Bucks Challenge Cup - Final Tie". Yorkshire Post: 7. 28 March 1887.
  6. "Football". Daily Telegraph: 2. 6 January 1888.
  7. Charles Alcock Yearbooks 1884-7
  8. "Sports, Yesterday". Lloyd's Weekly News: 1. 1 March 1885.


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