Tower Hamlets F.C.

Tower Hamlets Football Club is a football club based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. They are currently members of the Southern Counties East League Premier Division and play at the Phoenix Sports Ground in Barnehurst.

Tower Hamlets
Full nameTower Hamlets Football Club
Founded2000
GroundPhoenix Sports Ground, Barnehurst
ChairmanMohammed Nurul Hoque
LeagueSouthern Counties East League Premier Division
2019–20Essex Senior League (transferred)

History

Bethnal Green United was established in 2000 by Mohammed Nurul Hoque and Akhtar Ahmed as a community club.[1] The club played in several leagues, including the Canary Wharf Summer League, the Inner London Football League and the London Intermediate League, before joining the Middlesex County League. They were granted Senior status after winning the league's Premier Division in 2009, and were promoted to the Essex Senior League. In the 2009–10 season they finished fifth in the ESL and won both cups operated by the Essex Senior League, beating Burnham Ramblers 4–1 in the final of the Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy.

In 2013, the club was renamed to Tower Hamlets.[2] During the 1990s, an unrelated club, also by the name of Tower Hamlets, played at the Mile End Stadium.[3] At the end of the 2019–20 season, the club were transferred to the Premier Division of the Southern Counties East League after moving to Phoenix Sports' ground in Barnehurst from the Mile End Stadium.

Honours
  • Essex Senior League
    • League Cup winners 2009–10
    • Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy winners 2009–10
  • Middlesex County League
    • Premier Division champions 2008–09
    • Premier Division Cup winners 2007–08
  • Middlesex County Open Cup
    • Winners 2008–09
  • Tower Hamlets League
    • Champions 2002–03
    • League Cup winners 2002–03
  • Tower Hamlet's Mayors Cup
    • Winners 2012

Records
  • Best FA Cup performance: First qualifying round, 2010–11[4]
  • Best FA Vase performance: Fifth round, 2011–12[4]
  • Record attendance: 468 vs Clapton, Essex Senior League, 25 August 2017[5]

See also
The original Bethnal Green United badge.

References
  1. Match report: Bethnal Green United 4–0 Basildon United Archived 25 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Two Footed Tackle
  2. "Tower Hamlets". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  3. "Tower Hamlets{1}". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  4. Bethnal Green United at the Football Club History Database
  5. "Four Essex Senior League clubs record highest attendance ever as Tons come to own – analysing figures during Clapton fans' boycott". Clapton News. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

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