Locks Heath F.C.

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Locks Heath
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Full nameLocks Heath Football Club
Founded1894
GroundLocks Heath Recreation Ground
ChairmanMark Watson
ManagerJon Whitfield
League Hampshire Premier League Senior Division
2022–23 Hampshire Premier League Senior Division, 4th of 17

Locks Heath Football Club is a football club based in Fareham suburb of Locks Heath, Hampshire, England. The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association. [1] The club is an FA Charter Standard club. [2] They won the Hampshire League title in 1991. They are currently members of the Hampshire Premier League Senior Division and play their home games at Locks Heath Recreation Ground, Warsash Road, Fareham.

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History

Locks Heath was founded in 1894 but prior to that played as St Johns Chapel team against other local church and chapel teams. [3] In the 1983–84 season they joined the Hampshire League, in Division three and within three seasons were in the top division, finishing as Runners up in 1986–87. The club went on to win the Hampshire league in the 1990–91 season. In the 2005–06 season, they won the Wessex League Second Division title and were promoted to Wessex League Division 1 for 2006–07, finishing in fourth place, before joining the Hampshire Premier League as founder members. [4]

On 27 July 2011 Locks Heath Football Club was awarded the coveted FA Charter Standard Award. [5]

The 2012–13 season saw the club become champions of the Hampshire Premier League for the first time in their history. [6] However the club was refused promotion to the Wessex League, as Locks Heath Recreation Ground (a public open space, owned by Fareham Borough Council [7] ) could not be developed to the standards required by the league. [8] In an effort to avoid future restrictions on club promotion, chairman Douglas Leask finalised a ground share agreement in late 2013, for the club's first team, with Gosport Borough FC, who play at Privett Park [9] Seven seasons of flirting with relegation on occasion, including the 2019/20 season which when suspended and annulled ‘The Locks’ were bottom of the table, followed. David Fuge, who led Locks to the title in 2012/13 returned to the club from US Portsmouth at the beginning of the 2020/21 season.

Despite encouraging attempts from Fuge and other managers, and ambitions for promotion to the Wessex league, the club failed to maintain any momentum. By January 2024, a few months into the season the club were forced to withdraw from the Hampshire Combination and Development league.

Ground

Locks Heath play home matches at the Locks Heath Recreation Ground, Warsash Road, Fareham, PO14 4JX. The recreation ground is owned by Fareham Borough Council. [7]

Locks Heath Recreation Ground has been the club's home for more than 70 years. The club is a section of the Locks Heath Sports and Social Club which has a licensed club house on the site. During the summer months the recreation ground is used by Locks Heath Cricket Club [10]

The part of the Recreation Ground given over to football has a semi-permanent barrier around the pitch, and floodlights, some which are removed at the end of each football season so that the ground can be used for cricket.

Honours

Records

Notable former players

  1. Players that have played/managed in the football league or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league).
  2. Players with full international caps.

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  6. ↑ "Locks Heath are Hampshire League champions | Gazette Daily". Wwgazette.co.uk. 24 April 2013. Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Recreation Grounds". www.fareham.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 3 May 2014.
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  10. ↑ "About Us - Locks Heath Cricket Club". Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.

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