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Margate Football Club, originally called Margate Town, is an English football club based in the seaside resort of Margate, Kent. The club's first team play in the Isthmian League South East Division. The club was known during the 1980s as Thanet United.
Margate Town Football Club was founded in August 1896 at a meeting held at Trinity School, Margate, chaired by Colonel Rowland Hill. It was agreed that a team should be formed to represent the town although there were already numerous clubs based in the Margate area.
This ground became known as the Hall-by-the-Sea Ground, taking its name from a local dance hall. After the First World War, Margate joined the Kent League, but in 1923 the league suspended the team due to financial irregularities and the club promptly folded.
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Margate Football Club, originally called Margate Town, is an English football team based in the seaside resort of Margate, Kent, currently playing in the Isthmian League Premier Division. The club was known for a number of years during the 1980s as Thanet United.
The club was founded in 1896 and joined the Southern Football League in 1933. After a spell in the Kent League after World War II the team returned to the Southern League in 1959 and remained there until 2001 when they gained promotion to the Football Conference, the highest level of English non-league football. Their stay at this level saw the team forced to groundshare with other clubs due to drawn-out and problematic redevelopment work at their Hartsdown Park stadium, and during the three years spent away from their own ground they were expelled from the Conference National and subsequently relegated to the Isthmian League.
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On 8.12.01, Nick Roddis became the first Margate player to be sent off on his debut for the club. On 20.3.02, Leon Braithwaite and Nick Roddis became the first Margate players ever to play for the England semi-professional team while with the club when they both featured in a 2-1 win over the USA.
Hartsdown Park is a football stadium located in Margate, Kent, England. It has been the home of Margate F.C. (known as Thanet United F.C. between 1981 and 1989) since 1929, apart from between 2002 and 2005, when the club was forced to share the grounds of other Kent clubs while protracted redevelopment work occurred.
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History. Margate Football Club was founded in 1896 as an amateur club and was originally called Margate Town. Read more of our history. Hartsdown Park has been the home of Margate FC since 1929. Read more about Hartsdown Park. Partners and Sponsors.
