Full name Cobham Football Club Ground Capacity 2,000 Manager Sam Merison | Nickname(s) The Hammers Chairman Dave Tippetts Founded 1892 | |
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Ground Leg O'Mutton Field, Cobham League Combined Counties Football League Division One Profiles | ||
Cobham Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in the village of Cobham, Surrey, England. Affiliated to the Surrey County Football Association, they are currently members of the Combined Counties League Division One and play at Leg O'Mutton Field.
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History
The club was established in 1892 and joined a local league. They played in the Kingston & District League, winning Division One in 1928–29 and 1929–30 before joining the Surrey Senior League in 1937. However, after top half finishes in the two seasons before World War II, the club only finished in the top half on four further occasions until the league was transformed into the Home Counties League in 1978, finishing bottom of the league in 1953–54, 1955–56, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73 and 1975–76. The Home Counties League became the Combined Counties League in 1979, and Cobham spent the 1981–82 season in the Eastern Division when the league was divided into two divisions, before reverting to a single division the following season.
In 1998–99 Cobham finished as league runners-up, and in 2001–02 they won the Premier Division Challenge Cup, beating Bedfont in the final. When the league gained a second division in 2003, the club were placed in the Premier Division. However, they were relegated to Division One after finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 2008–09.
Ground
The club played at several venues around the edge of the village in their early years, before basing themselves at Cobham Recreation Ground after World War II. During the 1955–56 season they moved to Leg O' Mutton Field on Anvil Lane, with the road name leading to the club gaining the nickname of "the Hammers". The ground's floodlights were installed in the 1997–98 season and were first used in a friendly against Woking, which Cobham lost 8–0. It currently has a capacity of 2,000. The main stand was erected in 2004. Another 100-seat stand was installed in 2016.