HISTORY

Binfield FC first played in 1892, during the reign of Queen Victoria, making us one of the oldest Association Football clubs in the world! Back then, the team comprised young men from the local brickworks and those who worked on the land around Binfield. The club’s early years were spent in the Ascot and District League, where we enjoyed many successful seasons. In 1924 Binfield won the Fielden Cup for the first time, a trophy we have won on twelve occasions since.

During the second World War, we joined the Great Western Combination League, becoming champions in 1947. During that period we also won the Berks and Bucks Junior Cup and the Maidenhead Norfolkian Cup, and it was not unusual to see crowds in excess of 1,000 at our Forest Road ground.

In 1950 we joined the Reading and District League, where we remained for the next forty years.
  
See a Wokingham and Bracknell Times article from 1952.
  
In 1972, Binfield won promotion to the Premier Division for the first time and although relegated two years later we returned in 1976 as 1st Division Champions. A huge crowd, reminiscent of the 1940’s, packed Forest Road to witness our promotion.
  
In 1980, the club made an important decision to move from Forest Road, where facilities were shared with the cricket club, to our current site in Stubbs Lane. Turning that field into the football ground we see today was a massive task.
  
Thanks to an enormous amount of physical work by the members of the club the area was levelled and drained within three years. The members then set about building the club house we see today.
  
This progress off the field was matched on it when in 1987 and 1988 we won Division 2 and then Division 1 of the Reading and District League. In the following season we reached the final of the Berks and Bucks Intermediate Cup for the first time but unfortunately lost in extra time.
  
In 1989, we joined the high-profile Charrington Chiltonian League, winning the Division 1 title at the first attempt, and reaching the final of the League Cup. The following year we finished runners-up to Peppard, despite remaining unbeaten from November until the end of the campaign. A Cup Final appearance in the Reading Senior Cup also ended in disappointment as we lost by the odd goal in three to Peppard. In 1995 we reached the final of the Reading Senior Cup only to lose to Mortimer on penalties and in ‘96 we won the Chiltonian league again.
  
In 2001 we merged with Binfield’s junior club, Binfield Forest FC, and in doing so significantly increased the membership, with more than 20 teams playing every weekend.
  
Many of our younger teams have won their leagues in the last three seasons, and together with the newly-formed Allied Counties Youth team, who finished 3rd in their first season and 2nd last season, we have a steady stream of talented young players challenging for a 1st Team place. Our Reserves, using many youth players, were promoted to Division 1 in 2004, winning two Cup Finals as well.
  
In January 2005, Bracknell Forest Borough Council gave the club permission to install floodlights at Stubbs Lane, and thus signalled the next stage of Binfield’s development. Plans are now in place to improve all elements of the facilities from changing rooms to pitch from Under 6s to 1st Team.
  
The story continues.