Eastleigh F.C.

Eastleigh F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Eastleigh


fullname = Eastleigh Football Club
nickname = The Spitfires
founded = 1949 (as Swaythling Athletic)
ground = Silverlake Stadium,
Eastleigh
capacity = 3,000 (380 seated)
chairman = Paul Murray
manager = Ian Baird
league = Conference South
season = 2007-08
position = Conference South, 6th
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Eastleigh Football Club is a football club based in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. The team play their home games at Silverlake Stadium, Eastleigh, and play in the Conference South.

History

Formerly known as Swaythling Athletic, and then just Swaythling, they were members of the Hampshire League from 1950. The club changed its name to Eastleigh F.C. in 1980, and were accepted as one of the founding members of the Wessex League in 1986. During a seventeen year spell in the Wessex League, they only finished in the top three once, but that was a title-winning season in 2002-03 that earned them promotion to the Southern League.

After a re-organisation of the National League System, Eastleigh transferred to the Isthmian League for the 2004-05 season. A new stand incorporating dressing rooms and a directors lounge was built and opened by Rupert Lowe, then chairman of Southampton F.C., prior to the start of the season which proved to be very successful one. A run of fourteen unbeaten matches at the end of the season gained them 3rd place in the league and a place in the play-offs, where 2-0 and 2-1 wins meant that the club were promoted to the Conference South, while the reserve team also won the Sydenhams Wessex Combination League without losing a match. In their first Conference season, they finished in a respectable 8th place. The Spitfires spent much of the 2007-2008 season in the play-off zone, but a poor run of form in the last six matches saw them finish in 6th place.

During their rise up the pyramid, they have not yet had the same level of success in the F.A. competitions. Their best seasons in the FA Cup have entailed reaching the fourth qualifying round in 2007-08, they reached the Fourth Round (last 32) of the FA Vase on three occasions, while in their first three seasons in the FA Trophy the club have only won two matches.

The club's current manager is former Leeds United and Southampton player Ian Baird, assisted by former Saints team-mate David Hughes.

Ground

Their ground, in Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh was renamed in 2006 as "Silverlake Stadium" after a sponsorship deal. It had previously been sponsored as "Sparshatts Stadium", while its original name was "Ten Acres".

Current squad

fs player|no=|nat=England|pos=DF|name=Ashley Vickers (on loan to Newport County)

External links

* [http://www.eastleigh-fc.co.uk/ Official website]
* [http://www.fchd.info/EASTLEIG.HTM Eastleigh FC on FCHD]
* [http://www.fchd.info/SWAYTHLI.HTM Swaythling Athletic on FCHD]
* [http://jozefmontigue.tripod.com/ Unofficial website]


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