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| Full name | Wealdstone Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Stones, The Royals | ||
| Founded | 1899 | ||
| Ground | Grosvenor Vale | ||
| Capacity | 4,085 (709 seated)[1] | ||
| Chairman | Rory Fitzgerald[2] | ||
| Manager | Matt Taylor | ||
| League | National League | ||
| 2023–24 | National League, 16th of 24 | ||
| Website | https://www.wealdstone-fc.com | ||
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Wealdstone Football Club (/ˈwiːldstoʊn/ WEELD-stone) is an English semi-professional football club based in Ruislip, London Borough of Hillingdon, and affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association.[3] They currently play in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system. Their traditional colours are royal blue and white, and they are nicknamed "The Stones" or "The Royals".
Whilst formally established in 1899, the club has roots dating back to 1887 and was created through a series of local team mergers.[4] For most of its existence the club was based at the Lower Mead stadium in Harrow until 1991. After a long period of homelessness and ground sharing with various local clubs, since 2008 they have been based at Grosvenor Vale.
The club were the first to achieve the famed non-League 'double', winning both the FA Trophy and the Alliance Premier League (now the National League) in the same season (1984–85). The latter happened two years before automatic promotion to the Football League began;[5] Wealdstone has never been a member of the Football League so far.
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- ^ FC, Wealdstone (16 January 2019). "STATEMENT FROM THE EXECUTIVE BOARD". Wealdstone FC.
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