Swindon Supermarine F.C.

Swindon Supermarine Football Club are a semi-professional football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, that plays in the Southern League Division One South & West. The club is affiliated to the Wiltshire Football Association. The club plays at the Webb's Wood Stadium situated close to the Honda plant in Swindon.HistoryThe club was established in 1992 as a merger between two local clubs in the Hellenic Football League, Supermarine F.C. and Swindon Athletic F.C.. Both clubs had problems with Supermarine finishing bottom of Division One and Swindon Athletic were having problems meeting the new ground grading requirements, required by the league, at their Swindon Borough Council owned Southbrook Recreation ground. So the two clubs decided to merge and took Swindon Athletics place in the Hellenic League Premier Division.Supermarine F.C. was originally set up in 1946 from the Social club associated with the Supermarine aircraft company. The club was originally called Vickers Armstrong and then shortened to Vickers FC. The club originally played in the Swindon & District league, working their way up the footballing pyramid, becoming founder members of the Wiltshire Football League in 1976, starting in Senior Division 1. The club joined the Hellenic League in Division One for the 1982–83 season, under the name of Supermarine, and was immediately promoted to the Premier Division, where the club spent the next seven seasons. The club during their time in the premier division also won the Wiltshire Senior Cup in the 1985–86 season. After being relegated from the Premier Division the club struggled in Division One and at the end of the 1991–92 season, their last before they merged, finished in bottom place.