Farnborough North End F.C.

Football club infobox
clubname = Farnborough North End
fullname = Farnborough North End Football Club
nickname = North End
founded = 1967 (as Farnborough Covenanters)
ground = The Cody Sports & Social Club
Farnborough
capacity =
chairman = Tim Copp
manager =
league = Wessex League
Division One
season = 2007–08
position = Wessex League
Division One, 3rd

Farnborough North End F.C. are a football club based in Farnborough, Hampshire, England. In 1998, they changed their name from Covies to their present name. They are currently members of Wessex League Division One.

Club History:

Farnborough North End F.C. came into existence on 11th May 1998 when Covies F.C. changed their name in order to avoid any confusion with the youth organisation of the same name and to identify themselves with the area they were about to move into in Farnborough (the ‘north end’ of Farnborough).

Originally formed as Farnborough Covenanters in 1967 by Keith Elliott of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Sand Hill, Hawley Estate, the club was entered into the Woking and District League. By 1981 the team had become two teams and had progressed through to the top division winning the Southern Railwayman's Orphanage Cup on the way. The club’s current President, Chairman and Secretary joined in 1974/75.

At the end of this period the club became separate from the Church Youth Group it came from and changed its name to its nickname "Covies". The need to progress took the club into the next league up where they went into the Surrey Intermediate League (Western) where they competed for nine years gaining promotion to the top division of both the first and reserve sections and coming runners up in three cups.

The club has lead a bit of a nomadic existence. In their early years they played at Knellwood, known better by some as King George V playing fields. In their Surrey Intermediate days the club played at Cove Green and then at Queens Road in North Camp for around 10 years, the former home of Farnborough Town FC. The club joined the Hampshire League in 1991 and after an initial period of struggle we established ourselves as a County League side. Farnborough Gate, Ringwood Road was the next home from 1998 till early 2005 and this venue served the club well over its most successful period. We moved to our present home the Cody Sports & Social Club, Farnborough on 11th February 2005 and look forward to developing this new home to meet the demands of senior football.

After several very successful seasons in the Hampshire League, in 2004 the Hampshire League merged with the Wessex League and North End moved over from Hampshire League Division 1 to the newly formed Wessex League Division 3. In 2005 North End gained promotion to Division 2 of the Wessex League (now Division 1), Step 6 in the National Pyramid and the season culminated in us winning the ‘elusive’ Hampshire Intermediate Cup against fellow Division 3 side Otterbourne.