Эджве́р және Кингсбери футбол клубы тарихы

Association football club in England

Edgware & Kingsbury Football Club is a football club from Edgware, London Borough of Barnet, England. Originally established in 1939, the club was dissolved at the end of the 2007–08 season but reformed in 2014. They are currently members of the and play at Silver Jubilee Park in Kingsbury, about three miles from the club's original ground, the White Lion in Edgware.

The club was founded in 1939 by a group of football enthusiasts who worked for the construction and engineering firm, William Moss & Sons based in Cricklewood. The firm had taken over the sports ground located in the High Street, formerly used by Edgware Rugby Club. The club initially played in the West Middlesex Combination, winning the league title in 1939–40. The league was renamed the Middlesex Senior League in 1940, with the club winning the league title again in 1943–44, before sharing the title with Twickenham the following season. In 1947–48 Edgware won the Middlesex Senior Cup with a 2–1 win against Enfield in the final. Division Two was abolished in 1977 as the Athenian League was reduced to a single division. However, although the club did not play a match for many years from this point, it did not formally fold; FA registration was maintained and the club remained non playing members of the Middlesex Football Association.

The club played at the White Lion ground in Edgware from 1939, with the ground taking its name from the adjacent White Lion pub. In 1964 the pitch was levelled, but this led to drainage problems that caused numerous matches to be postponed. Floodlights were installed in 1979, paid for by the sale of striker Brian Stein to Luton Town, while the sale of goalkeeper Dave Beasant to Wimbledon funded other improvements. A new main stand was built in 1984 after the original wooden stand burned down. The White Lion pub was demolished in 1997 and replaced by a hotel, and the club was eventually forced to close in 2008 when their main benefactor withdrew financial support and the ground was lost to commercial redevelopment. The site freehold was bought by Barrett Homes, with planning permission having already been granted to build flats on the site by Harrow Council in 2006. The site of the former stadium is now occupied by a residential development named Zodiac Close. Upon reforming in 2014, the club moved to Silver Jubilee Park in Kingsbury (the former home of Kingsbury Town), although they played the opening games of the 2014–15 season at Underhill Stadium while Silver Jubilee Park was undergoing refurbishment. The ground has five stands; the 180 seat main stand, a 118 seat stand behind a goal and three covered terraces. The ground's capacity is 1,990.