St Francis Rangers

Full name

St Francis Rangers Football Club

Nickname(s)

Rangers

Founded

2002

Ground

The Colwell Ground, Haywards Heath

Capacity

1,000

Chairman

Del Tobias

League

Southern Combination Division Two

2022–23

Southern Combination Division Two, 8th of 14

Home colours

Away colours

St Francis Rangers F.C. is a football club based in Haywards Heath, England. They are currently members of the Southern Combination Division Two and play at the Colwell Ground.

History

The club was founded in 2002 from the amalgamation of St Francis FC and Ansty Rangers. The team were promoted from the third division of the Sussex County League in 2004 and were promoted again three years later. In the 2015-16 season, The Argus newspaper dubbed St Francis Rangers 'the worst football team in England'^[1] during a season where they only won once and were relegated (at the time the article was written, the team had lost all of the 23 games they had played up to that point) from the Premier Division of the Southern Combination Football League to Division One, where they remained until the club folded in December 2018.^[2]

On 23 May 2019, Whitehawk F.C. Under 18's manager Del Tobias and a partner, took on the club, re-founded it and re-entered the team into the 2019–20 Southern Combination Football League Division Two as an intermediate team with ambitions to rebuild the club.^[3]

v t e Southern Combination League
2023–24 Premier Division	AFC Uckfield Town AFC Varndeanians Bexhill United Crawley Down Gatwick Crowborough Athletic Eastbourne Town Eastbourne United Association Hassocks Haywards Heath Town Horsham YMCA Lingfield Little Common Loxwood Midhurst & Easebourne Newhaven Pagham Peacehaven & Telscombe Saltdean United Shoreham Steyning Town
2023–24 Division One	Alfold Arundel Banstead Athletic Billingshurst Chessington & Hook United Copthorne Dorking Wanderers Reserves East Preston Forest Row Godalming Town Mile Oak Montpelier Villa Oakwood Roffey Seaford Town Selsey Wick Worthing United
2023–24 Division Two	Bosham Brighton Electricity Capel Charlwood Ferring Hailsham Town Jarvis Brook Rottingdean Village Rustington Southwater St Francis Rangers Storrington Upper Beeding Worthing Town
Seasons	1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24

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^ "Meet the worst football team in England". The Argus. 13 December 2015.
^ "St Francis Rangers Football Club folds: 'We hoped we could see the season out, but it was not to be'". Mid Sussex Times. 10 December 2018.
^ "St Francis Rangers set for return to Southern Combination Football League". Mid Sussex Times. Retrieved 23 May 2019.