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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.
Margate Football Club was founded in 1896 as an amateur club and was originally called Margate Town, playing friendly matches on local school grounds. In the years before the First World War the club played in several different amateur leagues, with little success, and played at various grounds in the Margate area, before settling on a pitch at ...
Margate played for the first time on a Sunday on 27.1.1974 in a Southern League Cup tie at home to Bognor Regis Town. The first time Margate ever used more than one substitute in a competitive game was on 6.8.77 when Alan Draper and Greg Wood both came on in a 1-0 win over Ramsgate in the Kent Senior Shield.
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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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Margate Football Club was founded in 1896 as an amateur club and was originally called Margate Town. Read more of our history
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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.
