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Nickname(s)
  
Town

Founded
  
1876

Manager
  
Darren Perrin

Chairman
  
Dave Wiltshire

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Full name
  
Melksham Town Football Club

Ground
  
The Oakfield Stadium, Melksham

2015–16
  
Western League Premier Division, 5th

League
  
Western Football League Premier Division

Melksham Town Football Club are a football club based in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. They are currently members of the Western League Premier Division and play at the The Oakfield Stadium. The club is affiliated to the Wiltshire Football Association

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History

The club was formed as Melksham F.C. in 1876 and in 1894 became founding members of the Wilts League. They then spent the next eighty years in the Wilts league, during which time they won the league once in the 1903–04 season, and also completed a league and cup double when they took the Wilts Senior Cup as well. They entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1946. In 1951 the club changed their name to their current one.

They joined the Western Football League in 1974. Melksham won Division One in 1979–80, gaining promotion to the Premier Division. They stayed in the division until they were relegated in 1988. The club left the Western League in 1993, when they were relegated to the Wiltshire County League after finishing in bottom position. However they returned to the Western league in just one season when under manager Mel Gingell, they won the Wiltshire County league. The club three seasons later in the 1996–97 campaign under manager Darren Perrin, were promoted to the Premier Division One, as champions. The club then spent the next thirteen seasons in the top division of the Western league before being relegated to Division One again at the end of the 2009–10 campaign. At the end of the 2011–12 season the club gained prmotion back to the Premier Division when they finished as runners-up in Division one.

In the 2014–15 season Melksham won the Western Football League Premier Division but could not be promoted to the Southern League due to not being able to meet ground rules on time.

Ground

Until 2017, Melksham Town played their games at The Conigre, Market Place, Melksham, SN12 6ES.

The club had played at the Conigre ground since 1926. In 1986 the ground had new floodlights, toilets and changing rooms added, and these were opened with a friendly match against Southampton

They moved to a new stadium, Oakfield Stadium, with the first game being played on the 14th January 2017 against Bristol Manor Farm F.C. in the FA Vase.

League honours

  • Western Football League Division One
  • Champions (2): 1979–80, 1996–97
  • Runners-up (1): 2011–12
  • The Wiltshire Football League Premier Division
  • Champions (1): 1993–94
  • Wiltshire Football League
  • Champions (1): 1903–04
  • Runners-up (5): 1924–25, 1929–30, 1959–60, 1967–68, 1971–72

    • Cup honours

  • Wiltshire Premier Shield
  • Winners (5): 1980–81, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1997–98, 1999–2000
  • Runners-up (1): 1986–87
  • Wiltshire Senior Cup
  • Winners (7): 1903–04, 1969–70, 1977–78, 2002–03, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16
  • Runners-up (5): 1957–58, 1967–68, 1968–69, 2005–06, 2006–07

    • Club Records

  • Highest League Position: 3rd in Western Football League premier Division 1997–98
  • FA Cup best performance: Third Qualifying Round 1954–55, 1957–58
  • FA Trophy best performance: Second Qualifying Round 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88
  • FA Vase best performance: Third Round 1974–75, 1981–82, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2007–08
  • Highest Attendance: 2,821 vs Trowbridge Town 1957

    • Player Records

  • Most number of Goals in a Single season: 72 goals – Gareth Lewis – 1967–68

    • Former players

    1. Players that have played/managed in the football league or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league).
    2. Players with full international caps.
  • Andy Sandell
  • Murray Fishlock
  • David Seal

    • References

    Melksham Town F.C. Wikipedia
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