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Club History
Adur Athletic Football Club was formed in 1968 when our founder Doreen Davies formed our first team at the request of her son and a few of his friends. Doreen, a former Army Physical Training Instructor and a local fitness instructor, could hardly have known what she was starting and how great her influence on the Club would, and is still, with a number of her original team now managing teams within the Club.
Entry into a League followed shortly after and the Club won its first trophy in Season 1973/74 when the Under 16 Team won the South Sussex Youth League Under 16 Challenge Cup.
In the mid to late 1970s the Club enjoyed great success, with additional teams being added, and at the same time those teams were winning league championships and cup competitions in both the Mid Sussex Youth & Minor & the West Sussex Youth Leagues.
In Season 1979/80 the Club won its first County Cup when the Under 14 Team managed by Ron Fairhall and assisted by John Kanczler won the Sussex County F.A. C.P. Mason Cup for Under 14s.
Throughout the 1980s the Club continued to enjoy great success and more County Cups were won, and the Club started its first senior team. That team, managed by Leo Crossfield followed the example of its youth teams and achieved considerable success, and further senior teams followed.
At the start of the 1990s the Club was one of the founder members of the Sussex Girls Football League and two of our teams won League Cups. However, the interest in girls football faded and by the end of the decade there were no girls teams in the Club. Also, during that decade the Club had, by its own standards, something of a lean spell and won no trophies during seasons 1997/98 and 1998/99.
It was around this time that the Football Association started the Charter Standard and realising this was the way forward the Club took up the challenge and in 2001/02 became the 2nd Club in Sussex to be awarded the Charter and the first to be awarded the Development Club award.
In Season 2003/04 the Club became a Football Association Community Club and as a Community Club we are committed to providing football for all in the community.
Since gaining the Charter, with the emphasis on better coaching, results have improved and the Club has again started to win trophies. The reformed senior and girls sections have both added to this success and in the true spirit of the game with the Club being awarded the FA Fair Play Award for 2004.
In 1981 the Club made its first visit to Holland, and every other year since then, at least two of our youth teams have visited Holland, and since 1987 we have enjoyed exchanges with Quick 1888 Football Club of Nimegen. Each year two teams from our two clubs visit their counterparts and with the boys staying with host families and experiencing life with a family from another Country. Many long lasting friendships have been formed and we hope these continue.
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