Northfleet United F.C.

Northfleet United Football Club was a football club based in Northfleet, Kent. Around 1890 organised team football was being played in the town and in 1892 the Northfleet F.C. club was founded. It flourished for a few years in the mid-1890s until its demise in 1898. Several years later in 1903 Northfleet United F.C. was founded. In its playing existence (1903–1939) the United club achieved unrivalled success - they won more trophies than any other senior club competing in Kent-based competitions over that period: they were Kent League Champions on ten occasions, Kent League Cup winners on five occasions and Kent Senior Cup winners nine times. The club disappeared as an independent entity in 1946 after amalgamating with Gravesend United to form Gravesend and Northfleet F.C. History A club named Northfleet Invicta were playing friendly matches at Portland Meadow in 1890 and although they continued after the formation of Northfleet F.C. in 1892, the latter club would become the pre-eminent team in the town. This club used a ground at the Six Bells, Perry Street playing challenge and friendly matches and adopted the red and white colours of the local cricket team (for whom some of the players were members). In 1893 the club relocated to a more centrally located ground at Collins' Meadow and the team's strength was augmented by amalgamation with local club Northfleet Phoenix and players joining from Northfleet Defiance and Britannia Star. A couple of seasons later, in the 1894–95 campaign, 'the Fleet' played 42 challenge and cup matches losing 6 and recording a goals record of 187 scored and 54 conceded - and won their first county level trophy, the Kent Junior Cup beating Chatham Reserves 2–0 in the final.