Corsham Print
Wiltshire Senior League
Faringdon Thursday Memorial Cup Competition
Season 2019-20
Once again two Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League sides will be taking part in the Faringdon Thursday Memorial Cup Competition. League champions Wroughton will again be taking part looking to win the cup for the fifth time whilst Cricklade Town have also entered this season and will be looking to win the cup for the first time. The competition starts in pre-season with the semi-final and final then being played at the end of the season.

The competition dates back to 1951 but the roots of the Competition can be traced back to 1936 when shopkeepers and their assistants had a midweek afternoon break (i.e. early closing on a Thursday). In a field along Church Path in Faringdon they met up for a kickabout which soon led to the establishment of a team. The team entered the Oxfordshire Thursday League and also played in the Faringdon Hospital Cup. During the team's short history, until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, they played on three different pitches in Faringdon.  When the old team players returned from the war duty they found some things had changed. The Town did not stop on a Thursday afternoon as before and the players that remained were no longer in their playing prime. With some £30 remaining in the Bank from the old Thursday Team the 'old players' discussed how best to provide a memorial to six old Comrades who fell in the war and the 'Faringdon Thursday Memorial Cup' was born.

More details on the interesting history of the competition can be found on the official site for the competition at www.freewebs.com/faringdonthursdaymcc/

Both the two Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League sides are scheduled to be play their First Round games  on Tuesday 6th August 2019 with a 6.30pm kick-off. Cricklade Town will be home to former Wiltshire league side Ashton Keynes, who now play in the Swindon & District League, finishing in 6th place in the Premier Division last season. League champions Wroughton  travel to take on North Berks League Division 2 side Stanford in The Vale.

If the two Corsham Print Wiltshire Senior League sides win their First-Round ties, they are then scheduled to both be at home in the quarter final the following week.  If they win against Ashton Keynes, Cricklade would meet the winners of the First Round game between Faringdon Town and Clanfield 85, whilst Wroughton would play the winners of the Letcombe v Fairford Town Res First Round match. The semi-finals are scheduled for 14/15th April 2020 which will both be staged at Faringdon Town’s ground, as will the final scheduled for 7th May 2020.

The competition has been won 14 times by teams from our league with the full list of winners being:

1976-77  -  Highworth Town
1977-78  -  Vickers
1982-83  -  Penhill
1983-84  -  Penhill
1984-85  -  Penhill
1988-89  -  Sanford
1989-90  -  Pinehurst
1991-92  -  Wroughton
1992-93  -  Ferndale Athletic
1995-96  -  Southbrook Walcot
2001-02  -  Stratton Crosslink
2014-15  -  Wroughton
2015-16  -  Wroughton
2017-18  -  Wroughton
Wednesday 3 July 2019
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