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Rayleigh Town can trace its history back to 1897 with a team called Rayleigh Star and after a number of changes the current name of Rayleigh Town was adopted in 1946
The Club’s home ground throughout the 50s and 60s was at King Georges public park off Rayleigh high street
The Club leased an 11-acre site from the Council in 1970 and developed its own pitches and clubhouse over a two-year period – without any external funding, at that time the Club had three teams in the now defunct Southend & District League
The First and Reserve teams joined the Essex Olympian League in 1976 and have been reasonably successful in the intervening years
The First Team winning the Premier Div 6 times, the Senior Cup on three occasions, and the prestigious Essex Premier Cup on 4 occasions
In 2024 this ambitious club broke a 23-year barren spell without silverware when they won the BBC Essex Saturday Premier cup and were crowned champions of the Essex Olympian League for a seventh time and with it promotion into the Thurlow Nunn first division south, Step 6 of the national non-league pyramid enabled by the club’s agreement to play its home games at Concord Rangers Thames Road home
There are exciting ground opportunities ahead, which hopefully will see the club offer a wonderful hub for the community of Rayleigh to watch and play football
And so a new era begins…
The Club’s home ground throughout the 50s and 60s was at King Georges public park off Rayleigh high street
The Club leased an 11-acre site from the Council in 1970 and developed its own pitches and clubhouse over a two-year period – without any external funding, at that time the Club had three teams in the now defunct Southend & District League
The First and Reserve teams joined the Essex Olympian League in 1976 and have been reasonably successful in the intervening years
The First Team winning the Premier Div 6 times, the Senior Cup on three occasions, and the prestigious Essex Premier Cup on 4 occasions
In 2024 this ambitious club broke a 23-year barren spell without silverware when they won the BBC Essex Saturday Premier cup and were crowned champions of the Essex Olympian League for a seventh time and with it promotion into the Thurlow Nunn first division south, Step 6 of the national non-league pyramid enabled by the club’s agreement to play its home games at Concord Rangers Thames Road home
There are exciting ground opportunities ahead, which hopefully will see the club offer a wonderful hub for the community of Rayleigh to watch and play football
And so a new era begins…