Kingstonian F.C.

Kingstonian

Full name	Kingstonian Football Club
Nickname(s)	The K's
Founded	November 9, 1885
Ground	Kingsmeadow (Shared) Kingston upon Thames London England (Capacity: 4,722)
Chairman	Mark Anderson, Malcolm Winwright
Manager	Alan Dowson
League	Isthmian League Premier Division
2008-09	Isthmian League Division One South, 1st
Home colours Away colours

Kingstonian Football Club are an English, semi-professional football club that are playing in the Isthmian League Premier Division for the 2009-10 season.

The club plays at Kingsmeadow in Kingston upon Thames - a complex built by the club with local council backing in 1989, after leaving their traditional Richmond Road ground. The club now shares Kingsmeadow with AFC Wimbledon, who in 2004 purchased the lease to the ground from Kingstonian's controversial Chairman at the time, Rajesh Khosla.

History

Kingstonian has a proud tradition dating back to 1885. The club had a lot of success in the 1930s winning the FA Amateur Cup in 1933 along with numerous other competitions in that decade. They also enjoyed a period of great success more recently, winning the Isthmian League in 1998 and the FA Trophy in 1999 and 2000 at Wembley Stadium under renowned manager Geoff Chapple, and then nearly managed to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup in 2001. Entering the competition at the Fourth Qualifying Round, they beat Devizes Town before beating two Football League clubs - Brentford 3-1 away in the first round and Southend United 1-0 away in the third round, either side of a win over fellow Conference team Southport - on their way to the FA Cup fourth round proper, where they were seconds away from beating Bristol City before succumbing to a late winner in the replay.

Relegation and financial problems saw a sharp downturn in the club's fortunes between 2001 and 2005. However, in February 2005 Khosla stepped down as Chairman, selling the club to Jimmy Cochrane. While this did not save Kingstonian from relegation that year, the 2005-06 season saw Kingstonian Football Club revitalised. They only narrowly missed out on the promotion playoffs after an excellent run of form after Christmas and finished their season by beating AFC Wimbledon in the final of the Surrey Senior Cup at Woking FC's Ground by one goal to nil.

Changes continued during mid-2006 with Mark Anderson and Malcolm Winwright taking charge of the club, installing Stuart McIntyre as successor to Ian McDonald in the role of head coach. However McIntyre's stay in the role was brief and unsuccessful, with he himself being replaced by Alan Dowson at the start of 2007 after a run of extremely poor results. Under Dowson the club has stabilised and has seen an improvement in its fortunes. The 2007-2008 season ended with a 2-1 defeat to Eastbourne Town and coupled with a win by Dulwich Hamlet, Kingstonian ended the season in seventh. The 2008-2009 season saw Kingstonian win the Isthmian League Division One South, gaining promotion to the Premier Division.

Due to an administrative error Kingstonian were expelled from the 2007-8 Surrey Senior Cup final for fielding an ineligible player. Ironically their opponents Tooting & Mitcham United, who had lost the match 4-0, were also thrown out of the competition for a similar offence that could only occur in the semi finals and finals of this cup.

Kingstonian's Dean Lodge was voted E.ON Player of the Round following his four-goal haul against Braintree in the Second Round Qualifying of the FA Cup 2008/09. FA Website. Lodge had left the club for Northwich Victoria, but has now rejoined.

The season drew to a close with promotion up to the Isthmian League Premier Division, and the league title, after six straight wins, including wins at home to Cray Wanderers and Dulwich Hamlet. This was achieved before the final match of the season, an away draw with Ashford Town.

Kingstonian made a poor start to the season losing their first 4 league games and conceding 19 goals. However in an update manager Alan Dowson said that new blood would be bought in ^[1]. Subsequently they won the next two matches away to Hendon FC and Carshalton Athletic. As a consequence 7 new players were brought in and 5 were released, including long-standing players Jon Coke, NJ Lampton and Wayne Finnie.

Current squad

As of August 29th 2009:

No. Position Player GK Luke Garrard GK Luke Naughton DF Tom Dilloway DF Max Hustwick DF Robb Sheridan DF Adam Thompson DF Sam Stannard DF Lee Hall DF Nick Rundell

No. Position Player MF Mo Harkin MF Dean Lodge MF Matt Gray MF Karl Beckford MF Shane Hill MF Des Boateng MF Simon Huckle MF Jermaine McGlashan MF Liam Collins MF Tommy Williams FW Bobby Traynor FW Carl Wilson-Denis

Managers

As of 25 June 2008.

Name	Nationality	Period	G	W	D	L	Win %
Alan Dowson		January 2007–Present	?	?	?	?	?
Stuart McIntyre		May 2006–January 2007	?	?	?	?	?
Ian McDonald		March 2005–May 2006	?	?	?	?	?
Scott Steele		August 2004–March 2005	?	?	?	?	?
Kim Harris		December 2002–August 2004	?	?	?	?	?
Steve Sedgley		October 2001–December 2002	?	?	?	?	?
Bill Williams		August 2001–October 2001	14	4	2	8	?
Geoff Chapple		unknown–August 2001	?	?	?	?	?

Awards

Supporters' Club Player of the Year

Season	Player
2008–09	Carl Wilson-Denis (F)
2007–08	Dean Lodge (M)
2006–07	Luke Garrard (GK)
2005–06	Julian Sills (D)
2004–05	Phil Ruggles (F)
2003–04	Lance Key (GK)
2002–03	Tim Sills (F)
2001–02	Lance Key (GK)

League history

Honours

• FA Trophy winners 1999, 2000
• FA Amateur Cup winners 1933; runners up 1960
• Conference League Cup runners up 2000, 2001
• Conference Charity Shield winners 1999; runners up 2000
• Isthmian League Premier Division winners 1934, 1937, 1998; runners up 1948, 1963
• Isthmian League Division One South winners 2008
• Isthmian League Cup winners 1996; runners up 1982
• Isthmian League Charity Shield winners 1995, 1998
• Surrey Senior Cup winners 1911, 1914, 1926, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1939, 1952, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1998, 2006; runners up 1907, 1937, 1948, 1950, 1973, 1991, 2003
• London Senior Cup winners 1963, 1965, 1987; runners up 1924, 1926, 1931, 1947, 1984
• Trevor Jones Memorial Trophy winners 2003, 2006, 2009; runners up 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008

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Notable former players

• Dave Leworthy (1997-2000, 2006) - David has played league football for Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur, Oxford United and Reading F.C., before being the subject of a record non-league transfer fee when moving to Dover Athletic from Farnborough Town. He remains Kingstonian's record signing, joining for £18,000 from Rushden & Diamonds at the start of the 1997/98 Isthmian League winning campaign, going on to score 66 goals in 146 appearances for the K's.
• Gavin Holligan (1998, 2001) - Gavin Holligan, a young promising striker for the K's, was sold to Premiership club West Ham United for a club record fee of £150k.
• Amara Simba (2000) - Amara Simba was a former full international for France, winning 3 caps and scoring 1 goal for his country under the reign of Michel Platini in 1991/1992, Simba won the FA Trophy with Kingstonian in 2000, scoring the winning goal in the final.
• Scott Smith (2003-2005, 2006) - Scott became the first K's player to gain full international honours since the 1930s when he appeared for the All White's during their 2003 Confederations Cup campaign in France.
• Giles Coke (2004-2005) - Midfielder who played for Kingstonian in the 2004/05 season before progressing to league football with Mansfield Town.
• Michael Mancienne - Youth player at Kingstonian.
• Tim Sills (2002-2003) - Prolific Striker for Kingstonian.
• Matt Murray (2000) - Played for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 2003 Division 1 Play Off Final, and went on to play a handful of Premier League games.
• Tarkan Mustafa (1998-2000) - Scored the winning goal for the K's in the 1999 FA Trophy Final.
• Lance Key (2001-2004)
• Richard Martin (2005-2006) - Goalkeeper.
• Mark Beard (2000-2001, 2003-2006) - Scored against Arsenal to help Millwall knock them out of the 1994-95 FA Cup.
• Jimmy Glass (2001) - Goalkeeper who famously scored a last minute goal to keep Carlisle in the Football League in 1999.
• John Lacy - Made more than 100 appearances for both Fulham and Tottenham in the 70s and early 80s and played in the 1975 FA Cup Final.
• Craig Rocastle (2001-2003) - Cousin of late Arsenal winger David Rocastle, went on to play for Chelsea, Oldham and Sheffield Wednesday amongst others.
• Ian Culverhouse (1998) - A regular in the successful Norwich team of the late 80s and early 90s who famously beat Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup.

References

External links

• Official Site
• Kingstonian.co.nr - unofficial fansite of the K's!