Headington Amateurs F.C.
association football club in England
Headington Amateurs Football Club is a football club based in Headington, in Oxford, England. Affiliated to the Oxfordshire County Football Association, they are currently members of the Oxfordshire Senior League Division One and play at the Horspath Sports Ground.
History
The club was established in 1949 as Brittania Football Club, named after a pub close to where the team trained. They joined the Oxford City Junior League, in which they played until moving up to the Oxfordshire Senior League in 1966. They won the Division One title in 1968–69, and the league's Clarendon Cup the following season. In 1972–73 the club won the Premier Division title and the President's Cup, retaining both the following season. They went on to win back-to-back league titles in 1975–76 and 1976–77, before winning the Clarendon Cup again in 1978–79.
In 1988 Headington moved up to Division One of the Hellenic League after a merger with the committee of the defunct Morris Motors club. They were Division One runners-up in their first season in the league, earning promotion to the Premier Division. However, they were relegated back to Division One at the end of the 1993–94 season due to a lack of floodlights.
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