Full name Wick Football Club Ground Crabtree Park, Wick Manager Lee Baldwin | Nickname(s) The Wickers Chairman Lin Hallet Founded 1892 | |
2015–16 Southern Combination Premier Division, 16th League Sussex County Football League Division 2 | ||
Wick Football Club is a football club based in Wick, near Littlehampton, England. Wick joined the Sussex County League Division Two in 1964. In the 1998–99 season, they reached the 4th round of the FA Vase. Prior to the 2013–14 season, they merged with near neighbours Barnham and are currently members of the Southern Combination Premier Division.
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History
Wick became founding members of the West Sussex Football League in 1896, joining the Junior Division.
Wick joined Division Two of the Sussex County League in 1964–65 and then spent the next eighteen seasons in Division Two, eventually winning promotion in 1983 after finishing as champions. They then spent three seasons in Division One before being relegated, but bounced back the following season (1985–86) after winning Division Two for a second time.
From then until the end of the 2002–03 season, Wick were ever-present in Division One of the County League, winning the League Challenge Cup in 1987–88.
In 1989–90 they lifted the Division One title, as well as the RUR Charity Cup. In 1992–93 they won the Sussex Senior Cup for the only time, beating Oakwood at the Goldstone Ground, 3–1. The 1993–94 season they won the championship for the second time, finishing 14 points clear of runners-up Whitehawk.
The league cup was won in the 1996–97 season and finished runners-up to Burgess Hill Town. The following season under manager Jimmy Quinn, Wick finished third in the League, but reached the semi-finals of the Senior Cup, and won the RUR charity Cup, which they retained in the following 1998–99 season.
In 2000–01, the club finish third, but two seasons later in the 2002–03 campaign the club was relegated to Division Two.
The club finished as runners-up to Crowborough Athletic in 2004–05 to move back in to the top division of the Sussex league.
Carl Stabler joined as manager in 2006–07 with the remit of rising Wick Football Club out of the County League and after 3 seasons stepped up to Chairman and handed over the reins of the football side of the club to manager Vic Short.
Prior to the 2013–14 season, they merged with near neighbours Barnham and are currently members of the Southern Combination Football League Premier Division. However, the clubs split again at the end of the 2015-16 season, with Wick taking the place of the 1st team in the Southern Combination Football League Premier Division.
Ground
Wick play their games at Coombs Way, Wick, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 7LS.
League honours
Cup honours
Club records
Former coaches
- Managers/Coaches that have played/managed in the football league or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league).
- Managers/Coaches with full international caps.