Nickname(s) Lillywhites Chairman Brent Williams Founded 2000 | Ground Capacity 2,000 Manager Daren Pearce Grounds Oaklands Park, Chichester | |
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Full name Chichester City Football Club 2015–16 Southern Combination Premier Division, 5th League Sussex County Football League Division 1 | ||
Chichester City Football Club is a football club based in Chichester, West Sussex, England. Affiliated to the Sussex County Football Association, they are currently members of the Southern Combination Premier Division and play at Oaklands Park.
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History
The club was established in 2000 as a merger of Chichester City and Portfield, and was originally named Chichester City United. Both clubs were in Division One of the Sussex County League, with the new club taking their place in the division, with the new club losing their first league match 5–1 at home to Saltdean United. They were Division One champions in 2003–04. The following season saw them finish sixteenth, although they won the Brighton Charity Cup, beating Horsham on penalties in the final. They retained it in 2005–06, defeating Ringmer 2–1 in the final.
In 2006–07 Chichester won the Sussex RUR Cup with a 2–1 win over Whitehawk in the final. In 2009 the club was renamed Chichester City.
Ground
The club originally played at Portfield's Church Road, with the agreement that Chichester District Council would sell the ground for housing and use the funds to redevelop Chichester City's Oaklands Park ground. They moved to Oaklands Park in 2008 after a 100-seat stand was installed; the final match at Church Road was a 5–4 win against Three Bridges on 19 April. A new clubhouse and changing rooms were completed in 2010, with hardstanding installed on all four sides of the pitch.