Newark and Sherwood United F.C.
association football club in England
Newark and Sherwood United F.C. is a football club that represents the town of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and were based at the Lowfields Ground, Hawton Lane, Balderton for over 100 years, (1901 - 2021). They are currently members of the Nottinghamshire Senior League Premier Division and play at Coronation Park in Balderton having previously ground shared at Harrowby United F.C. in Grantham.
History
Founded in 1901 as A.J. Simpson and Co., the football club began life in the Newark Ironmongers’ League. No records survive from those early days, but it is known that in 1935 the club, now renamed Worthington Simpson, entered the Nottingham Spartan League. After winning back-to-back titles, Simmo’s or the Works (as the club became known locally) joined the Notts Alliance League in 1949, going on to win that title in the momentous football years of 1953 and 1966. The Notts Alliance Cup brought the club’s greatest success up to that point, first in 1970 beating Notts Combined Police two-nil in a replay at Notts County’s Meadow Lane ground and then the trophy returning to Newark in 1972 after an epic five-three extra time victory. The trophy returned to Newark again 1981, 1989 and finally 1999. Name changes followed in the late 1990s, first to IDP and then to Newark Flowserve, and in 2004 the club’s name was entered into the first level of the FA’s national pyramid by joining the Central Midlands League Premier Division. Following a short break, the first team re-formed in 2013 and finished a creditable third in Notts
Senior League (NSL) Division Two, securing promotion to the First Division. Another successful campaign followed a year later when the team finished runners-up and clinched their place in the NSL Premier Division, taking the club back to step seven football.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55625070. Authority coordinates are 53.055, -0.796. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901, 2021, 1935 and 1949.
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