Welling Town F.C.

Welling Town
Full name	Welling Town Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Boots
Founded	2014
Ground	Glentworth Sports Club, Dartford
Chairman	Kevin Oakes
Manager	Darren Manning
League	Southern Counties East League Premier Division
2020–21	Southern Counties East League Premier Division (season curtailed)

Welling Town Football Club is a football club based in Welling, London, England. They are currently members of the Southern Counties East League Premier Division and play at the Glentworth Sports Club in Dartford.

History[]

The club was established in 2014 by Kevin Oakes and friends as a Sunday league club.^[1] They joined Division Two of the London & Kent Suburban League, and finished third in the division in their first season, resulting in promotion to Division One.^[1]^[2] After finishing fourth in Division One the following season,^[3] the club switched to Saturday football,^[1] joining Division Three West of the Kent County League.^[4] The Sunday side continued for another two seasons.

Welling won the Barry Bundock West Kent Challenge Shield in 2016–17 and were Division Three West runners-up, earning promotion to Division Two West.^[5] They went on to win Division Two West and the Kent Junior Cup the following season, also retaining the Barry Bundock West Kent Challenge Shield.^[5] The club then successfully applied to join Division One of the Southern Counties East League,^[5] a jump of three divisions.

In their first season in the Southern Counties East League, Welling were Division One champions, earning promotion to the Premier Division.

Ground[]

The club moved to Bayliss Avenue in Thamesmead in 2017 after Thamesmead Town left the ground.^[6] In 2021 they relocated to Kent Football United's Efes Stadium in Dartford.

Honours[]

Southern Counties East League
- Division One champions 2018–19
Kent County League
- Division Two West champions 2017–18
- Barry Bundock West Kent Challenge Shield winners 2016–17, 2017–18
Kent Junior Cup
- Winners 2017–18