About Meadow Sports FC

Meadow Sports Football club was founded in 1965 and, as such, is one of the oldest in the Woking area. Originally it was created as a boys club to include not just football but all aspects of boys' club life, including cricket, athletics and hiking. It was when Old Woking Community
Centre football team disbanded that Meadow took up the mantle and joined the
Sheerwater Minors' League, which was to become the West Surrey Boys League.

Meadow, so named because most of its recruits came from the two 'fields' of Kingfield and Westfield began playing at Rydens Way - the clubs first real home - and quickly established itself as a leading outfit. The club achieved League and Cup success on a regular basis
and spread its wings abroad to compete in prestigious tournaments in Belgium
and Holland. As the club became firmly established the local authority decided
to build a college on the Rydens Way site so pitches had to be found elsewhere.
An attempt to buy a church hall in Sheerwater and move it to Westfield Road
failed because the new site was on a flood plain. This effectively ended Meadow's
function as a broad based boys' club.

After moving the club to its present home Loop Road, the county council decided it wanted to sell the playing fields. A joint action group was formed between Meadow Sports and Old Wokingians the mens club that uses the pitches on a Saturday. After a public enquiry in 1980, we won an historic victory which later led to the Loop Road site becoming Meadow's permanent home. Tireless fund-raising and negotiating produced the money for a clubhouse, opened in 1987 by Sir Bobby Charlton.

Meadow has continued to flourish since, now encompassing the growing trend for girls' football, and with plans to further develop the clubhouse dressing rooms and to build an all-weather traing pitch. With 26 teams for boys, girls and ladies, Meadow continues to be one of the largest clubs in the Woking area.