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Southwick F.C. is a football club based in Southwick, West Sussex, England. It was founded in 1882 and was among the founding members of the Sussex County League. It has won the Sussex County League title six times in its history. Southwick play in red and black stripes with black shorts and socks. They enjoy a fierce, if good natured, rivalry with near neighbours Mile Oak. ==History== Founded in 1882, the club became founding members of the West Sussex Football League in 1896. They became the first winners of the league, and successfully defended the title the following season.〔 In 1920 they joined the Sussex County League as one of its founder members.〔 They went on to win the championship four times between 1923 and 1948, and finished runners-up on a further four occasions.〔 In 1952 the club left the league for two seasons to compete in the Metropolitan & District League but, after finishing bottom in 1954, rejoined the County League. The following season saw Southwick relegated to Division Two. John Shepherd took over as player manager in 1964–65 and the club were promoted to Division One after finishing as runners-up (on goal average) to Sidley United. In 1968, Shepherd led the club to victory in the Sussex Senior Cup, beating Athenian League Horsham 5–3 in front of a crowd of 4,261 at the Goldstone Ground, and the following season they finished as Division One Champions. In the 1974–75 season, they reached the FA Cup first round for the first and only time in its history.〔 Under Ray McCarthy in 1982–83 it was Division One runners-up and runners-up in the County Challenge Cup. In 1984 Southwick left the County League to join the Combined Counties League. The following year the Wickers were promoted to Division Two (South) of the Isthmian League after finishing as runners-up. At the end of the 1985–86 season, Southwick were promoted to Isthmian League Division One as champions. Two successive relegations from 1990–91 and they opted to rejoin the County League for a third time in 1992–93, taking their place in Division Two.〔 Charismatic chairman Roy Pollard arrived promising "A brave new world" in 1993. He installed Barry Noonan as his right-hand man, but a succession of managers came and went including Russell Bromage and Paul Hubbard. Pollard left in 1997 moving to Southern Spain leaving Noonan at the helm. Southwick finished bottom of Sussex County Football League Division One in 2005–06 and was relegated to Division Two.〔 New managers Lloyd Saunders and Roger Feest took charge for the 2010–11 season.〔 John Kilgarriff is the present manager who guided them to Sussex county division 3 champions and a cup win in the Sussex intermediate cup during season 2014-15/> Southwick FC are sponsored by local company PR Industrial Ltd/> 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southwick F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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