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Cray Valley Paper Mills Football Club is a football club currently based in Eltham, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, England. They are currently members of the Шаблон:English football updater and play at the Badgers Sports Ground.

History

The club was established in 1919 and joined Division Two of the new Sidcup & Kent League.[1] Playing in green and white, the colours of the mill's vehicles, their first match was played on 20 September 1919, a 1–0 win against Hamilton House.[1] The club won the division at the first attempt, earning promotion to Division One of the Bromley & District League.[1] In their second season they won the Kent Junior Cup.[1] They later joined the Kent County Amateur League, winning Division Three of the western section in 1932–33 and finishing as runners-up in the division in 1936–37.[1] The club left the league at the end of the 1954–55 season.[2]

Cray Valley joined the South London Alliance in 1975.[1] They were Division One champions in 1979–80 and won the Premier Division two seasons later.[3] The club won Division One again in 1983–84, and finished as runners-up in the Premier Division in 1988–89.[3] In 1991 they joined Division One of the Spartan League.[4] When it merged with the South Midlands League to form the Spartan South Midlands League in 1997, the club were placed in Division One South. Despite finishing as runners-up in the league's first season, they left to become founder members of the London Intermediate League.[4] However, in 2001 they left to rejoin the Kent County League, becoming members of Division One West.[4][5]

In 2002–03 Cray Valley won Division One West, earning promotion to the Premier Division.[4] Two seasons later they won the Premier Division.[4] After finishing third in 2010–11, they moved up to the Kent League, which was renamed the Southern Counties East League in 2013.[4] When the league gained a second division in 2016, the club became members of the Premier Division.[4] In 2016–17 they won the London Senior Cup, beating Metropolitan Police 2–1 in the final, becoming the lowest-ranked team to ever win the trophy.[6] They were also runners-up in the Kent Reliance Senior Trophy in the same season.[7] However they were disqualified from the first round of the FA Vase for fielding an ineligible player, former Crystal Palace defender Matthew Parsons.[8] The club reached the London Senior Cup final again the following season, but lost 4–1 to Balham.[9]

The 2018–19 season saw Cray reach the FA Vase final for the first time,[10] in which they lost 3–1 after extra time to Chertsey Town at Wembley Stadium.[11] They were also Southern Counties East League Premier Division champions, earning promotion to the South East Division of the Isthmian League.[11] In 2020–21 the club reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1–0 at Havant & Waterlooville.[12] They reached the first round again in 2023–24, when they were drawn away to local League One side Charlton Athletic.[13] After a 1–1 draw at the Valley,[14] they lost the replay 6–1.[15]

Ground

The club originally played at the sports ground of the paper mills in St Paul's Cray.[1] However, the mills closed in 1981 and the club then played at numerous grounds until moving permanently to the Badgers Sports Ground in Eltham in 1998.[1] The ground includes a 100-seat stand on one side of the pitch and a small covered area on the other.[16][1] In 2016 Greenwich Borough agreed a 30-year lease to share the ground.[17][18] However, at the end of the 2018–19 season Greenwich Borough were evicted for failing to pay rent, and subsequently moved to the Phoenix Sports Ground in Barnehurst.[19]

Honours

  • Southern Counties East League
    • Premier Division champions 2018–19
  • Kent County League
    • Premier Division champions 2004–05
    • Division One West champions 2002–03
    • Division Three (Western Section) champions 1932–33
  • South London Alliance
    • Premier Division winners 1980–81
    • Division One champions 1979–80, 1983–84
  • Sidcup & Kent League
    • Division Two champions 1919–20
  • London Senior Cup
    • Winners 2016–17
  • London Intermediate Cup
    • Winners 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2010–11[3]
  • Kent Intermediate Shield
    • Winners 2004–05[3]
  • Kent Junior Cup
    • Winners 1921–22, 1977–78, 1980–81[1]
  • West Kent Challenge Shield
    • Winners 2001–02[3]

Records

See also

References

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External links

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 1,7 1,8 1,9 Cray Valley (PM) FC - Our history 1919-2015 Cray Valley Paper Mills F.C.
  2. Kent County Amateur League 1951–1960 Non-League Matters
  3. 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 Honours Cray Valley Paper Mills F.C.
  4. 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 4,4 4,5 4,6 4,7 4,8 4,9 Шаблон:Fchd
  5. Kent County League 1998-2004 Non-League Matters
  6. Results London Football Association
  7. Ashford lift Kent Reliance Senior Trophy Kent Sports News, 9 April 2017
  8. Matthew Parsons: Cray Valley wishes to apologise for allowing this situation to occur Kentish Football, 6 November 2017
  9. Balham 4-1 Cray Valley (Paper Mills) - I just think there were too many below par performances, admits Cray Valley boss Kevin Watson Kentish Football, 9 May 2018
  10. Cray Valley PM reach FA Vase final at Wembley after two-legged win over Canterbury City South London Press, 23 March 2019
  11. 11,0 11,1 FA Trophy Final BBC Sport, 19 May 2019
  12. Havant & Waterlooville 1–0 Cray Valley Paper Mills BBC Sport, 8 November 2020
  13. Шаблон:Cite web
  14. Шаблон:Cite web
  15. Шаблон:Cite web
  16. A Guide for First Time Visitors to Cray Valley (PM) Football Club Cray Valley Paper Mills F.C.
  17. Greenwich Borough sign 30-year lease to play at Cray Valley's Badgers Sports Ground Kentish Football, 1 January 2016
  18. Return to the Royal Borough has meant a busy summer for Greenwich Borough The Non-League Football Paper, 5 August 2016
  19. Greenwich Borough confirm groundshare deal at Phoenix Sports and appoint Ben Kotey as their new manager Kentish Football, 20 May 2019