Eastbourne Borough F.C.

Eastbourne Borough ( officially: Eastbourne Borough Football Club ) - also known as The Sports - is an English football club based in Eastbourne, East Sussex which plays after relegation from the Conference National, in the Conference South. The venue of the association is the 4,151 -seat end of Priory Lane.

Club history

The club was founded as Langney Football Club in 1964 began the first years in the Eastbourne & District Football League. Four years later, with the renaming of the association on Langney Sports Club, the first name change. The team was able to rise in 1974 after a successful season in the Eastbourne & Hastings League. At the beginning of the 1983/84 season Langney was included as one of the founding members of the newly created third division of the Sussex County League. In the following years the team was able to celebrate the first success. As the winner of the third division of the Sussex County League, the club promotion to the second division and a year later was made with the promotion to the first division of the next rise.

Langney established itself as one of the best teams in the first division, as a place among the first nine teams was achieved in ten of twelve years, the 1999/2000 season the highest division of the Sussex County League was completed this as a winner and the initial rise ensured in the Southern Football League. Langney Sports entered the season 2000 / 01 in the Eastern Division of the Southern Football League and reached a placement on the 9th place. For the season 2001 /02 a change of name of the club was announced, now participated as Eastbourne Borough Football Club in the game mode. A year later succeeded by reaching the second rank in the Eastern Division to realize the Southern League promotion to the Premier Division.

The club then managed to avoid relegation in the top division of the Southern League and became the 2004/05 season was added after a major restructuring of the Football Conference in the Conference South. It was achieved with 64 points on the 5th place in the Conference South. Eastbourne was also the next three years active in the league and won with 80 points 2nd place in the league and qualified after winning the play-offs against Braintree Town and Hampton & Richmond Borough for the first time in club history for the Conference National. The 2008/09 season was completed with the 13th rank on a secure midfielder rank and relegation are managed.

In 2011, after three years in the Conference National, Eastbourne was relegated to the Conference South after a 23rd place with only 39 points back. It was nevertheless decided to switch the association structures to a professional status to rise again should succeed.

League membership

Achievements

  • Sussex County League winner: 1999/2000
  • Conference South ( playoff winner): 2007/ 08

Known player

  • Ireland Paul Armstrong
  • England Ashley Barnes
  • England Danny Brown
  • Northern Ireland Mo Harkin
  • France Jean -Michel Sigere
  • Wales Lee Worgan
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