Corsham Print
Wiltshire Senior League
Marlborough Town FC
Club Formed: 1904
Club Nickname:The Boro
Chairman: Jamie Hughes
Club Contact Details
Secretary: Sara Newman
Email: saranewman_1@outlook.com
Tel: 
Mobile: 07423 017832

Manager:  Andy Mullen
Tel:  07850 450319
Email: andymullen68@googlemail.com

Club Welfare Officer: Andy Mullen
Club Social Media Details
Team Photo & Club Colours



Season 2024-25 Team Photo

To Be Added

When Available

Fixtures and Results
Details of Home Ground
Name of Ground: Elcot Lane

Ground Address: Elcot Lane, Marlborough, SN8 2BG

Ground Tel: 01672 513340

 Match Day Programme?  No
Picture courtesy of Jacob Price
Ground Directions: Follow A4 from Marlborough towards Hungerford. Turn left into Elcot Lane (behind Roebuck Inn).  Take second left into ground.   
Club History
A  football club was established in Marlborough in 1871 with Mr W. S. Bambridge as its captain and Mr A.E. Perkins as its secretary and treasurer. The short article below is taken from the Salisbury & Winchester Journal dated 04 March 1871.
However, Marlborough Town Football Club as we know it today was formally established in July 1904.

Marlborough Town, like other clubs at the time would initially have just played friendly matches but, after being turned down for the Wiltshire League, organised football for the club started in the Swindon & District League. Season 1907-08 saw them win the Swindon & District League “Wednesday Division”, winning seven of their ten games to finish two points clear of runners-up Swindon Athletic.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the club remained in the Swindon & District League and, at the start of the 1930’s, the history book covering 100 Years of Football in the Swindon & District League noted that one of their players, Piper Cook, was selected to play for Wales in an Amateur International Match.

Just after the Second World War Marlborough Town moved into their current location at Elcot Lane, on the eastern side of the town. With the hostilities over the club resumed its membership of the Swindon & District League, playing in Division One (the then top division) along with the likes of Fairford Town and Highworth Town. Season 1950-51 was to be a successful one for the club as they won the Swindon & District League’s prestigious Advertiser Cup.

Marlborough Town joined the Wiltshire League Division 1 (second tier in the county) in Season 1957-58 and finished just below half-way in that first season. The last season of the decade saw Marlborough improve, finishing in fourth place just three points behind runners-up Swindon Victoria. Marlborough were to remain in Division One of the Wiltshire League without much success until the formation of the Wiltshire Combination in Season 1968-69.
Marlborough were not amongst the senior clubs in the County who were to form the initial constitution for the Combination League. However, a successful Season 1973-74 saw the club elevated to the Wiltshire Combination for Season 1974-75.  That first season at the higher-level saw Marlborough finish 10th in a division of 15 teams, slipping to 15th in a division of 17 teams in the final season of the Combination in Season 1975-76.

In 1976, when the Wiltshire Combination merged with the Wiltshire League to form the Wiltshire County League. Marlborough Town were placed in Senior Division 2 but the new league did not see any immediate success as they finished in 10th place. However, a fourth place finish the following season saw the club elevated to Division 1 of the Wiltshire County League for the first time. However, they were immediately relegated back to Division 2, a sequence which was repeated in Seasons 1979-80 and 1980-81.

Following their second relegation in Season 1980-81 Marlborough Town then spent the next seven seasons in Division 2 before the Division 2 title in season 1987-88. In between Marlborough picked up some silverware in Season 1986-87 when they lifted the Subsidiary Cup, a cup competition to augment fixtures of the Second Division teams. In Season 1988-89 Marlborough again found life in the topflight difficult and were immediately relegated back to Division 2 after just one season. 

After three unsuccessful seasons back down in Division 2, Season 1992-93 was to see a reverse in fortunes as Marlborough lifted the Division 2 title for the second time as they pipped Corsham Town to the championship. During this period the club were also gaining a reputation as a sporting club. They had first won the EC Mills Sportsmanship Award in 1988-89, a year after their reserve team. The two Marlborough teams then shared the award in Season 1991-92, with the First Team winning again in Season 1997-98 and the Reserves in 1999-2000.

Season 1996-97 saw them reach the Wiltshire Senior Cup for the first and only time in their history. Unfortunately for Marlborough it was not to end in glory as they lost 4-1 to Corsham Town in the final at Devizes. That same season Marlborough were also to finish the league season in second place in Division 2, regaining their place back in the top division of the league where they have remained ever since.

Whilst most of the 22 seasons in what is now the Premier Division have generally been spent in the lower half of the table, Marlborough Town achieved top half finishes in both Season 2016-17 (4th place) and 2017-18 (8th) and in Season 2021-22 reached the semi final of the prestigious Wiltshire Senior Cup, their best showing in that competition since that 1996-97 cup final.

Season 2022-23 was to prove to be a difficult one for Marlborough seeing them finish second from bottom which resulted in relegation to Division One ahead of Season 2023-24. Marlborough looked to bounce straight back but, whilst always in the top half of the table and fired by the goals of the prolific Jake Farrell who would end the season as the division's top scorer, in the end they finished 12 points off an immediate return to the Premier Division. If they can retain the squad that ended the season they should be amongst the front runners in Season 2024-25.
Programme
Marlborough Town Centenary

Marlborough Town celebrated their centenary in 2004 with two club games, the first between their Under 15’s and Under 16’s, and then their veterans side played the then present side. Following the two games there was a presentation by the Wiltshire FA. Marlborough produced a programme for the games. To see a PDF of the full programme, click on the image of the programme.

Marlborough Town 2022-23

Marlborough Town 2021-22

Marlborough Town 2020-21

Marlborough Town 1996-97
Marlborough Town 2019-20
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