| Full name | West End Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | W.E. | ||
| Founded | 1868 | ||
| Dissolved | 1914? | ||
| Ground | Wormholt Farm, Shepherd's Bush | ||
| Secretary | R. A. Palmer | ||
| |||
West End was an English association football club from London, with a claimed foundation date of 1868.
West End was the works side of the Marshall & Snelgrove department store. [1] The club's first recorded match was in October 1873. [2]
Its first year of entry to the FA Cup was 1879–80, and the club reached the fourth round (last ten), albeit thanks to one bye and one walkover after the Swifts withdrew from the competition. The club reached the second round of the Cup in the next two years. In 1881–82, the club drew 1–1 with Reading, but was disqualified before the replay could take place for an unknown reason. [3]
The club's last FA Cup tie was a 3–3 draw with Upton Park in 1884–85 as it withdrew from the competition before the replay. It had success on a more local level, winning the West End Challenge Cup (set up in 1881 for works sides from "large retail houses") [4] for the first time in 1882–83, by beating Prairie Rangers (the works side of Harvey Nichols) [5] 3–0 in the final replay, at Wormholt Farm; the match attracted an attendance of 1,500, and Cooper gave West End the lead in the first half, Foster scoring twice in the second (the first from following up a parry by Houghton in the Rangers' goal, the second "breasting" home a corner) to secure the cup. [6] It repeated the triumph in 1895. [7]
The club continued playing until at least the 1913–14 season, [8] but references to West End afterwards refer to the West End FA rather than an individual club.
| 1878–81 | Black & amber stripes and stockings, with white knickers [9] |
| 1881 | Blue & amber |
| 1881–83 | Blue & white |
| 1883–85 | Black & white [10] |
In 1875, the club was playing at Wormwood Scrubs. [11] By 1877, the club had moved to Wormholt Farm [12] in Shepherd's Bush, [13] In 1878–79, the club was playing at the Royal Oak in Harlesden, [14] but by 1879–80 the club was once more playing at Wormholt Farm, using the Askew Arms for facilities. [15]
In 1905, the Marshall & Snelgrove amalgamated athletic association - the Magpie Athletic Club, formed in 1895 to bring together disparate sports under one umbrella - moved to a new ground in Wembley Park, and the football club took up residence there, albeit keeping the name West End. [16]
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