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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 FC History. 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 ...
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.
Club Honours SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Premier Division: Champions 2000/01 Division One: Champions 1962/63, Runners-Up 1966/67 First Division (South): Champions 1977/78 Southern Division: Runners-Up 1998/99 Central Section: Champions 1935/36 Eastern Section: Champions 1935/36, Runners-Up 1933/34 Midweek Section: Champions 1936/37
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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Margate FC | Isthmian League Premier Division. The Official Website of Margate Football Club. Next fixture. Broadbridge Heath vs Margate. Saturday 02 November @ 3:00 PM. Isthmian League South East. Match Centre.