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The club was established in 1886 as Worthing Association Football Club. [2] After playing friendlies, their first competitive game was a Sussex Senior Challenge Cup match on 27 November 1886 in which they defeated Brighton Hornets 1–0 at home. [2] In 1892–93 they won the Sussex Senior Challenge Cup, beating Eastbourne 2–1 in the final. [2]
The 2014–15 season saw Worthing United win both the Division Two Cup and the Division Two title, [3] earning promotion to the renamed Southern Combination Premier Division. In August 2015 two of the club's players, Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, were among those killed when an aircraft crashed on the A27 road near Shoreham Airport . [ 9 ]
Sparts (after the football club), Blitherers Bognor Regis Boggers, Bog Buggers (pejorative, alludes to the last words of King George V) Bolton Trotters (originally a football term, it is now used to describe anyone from Bolton and surrounding area), Noblot (collective noun, anagram for Bolton) Bo'ness Bo'neds (pejorative) Bootle
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Worthing Football Club are an English association football club based in Worthing, West Sussex, fielding men's and women's teams. The women's team currently play in The FA Women's National League Division One South West, [1] having been moved laterally from The FA Women's National League Division one South East [2] in the previous season.
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A Worthing Cycling Club existed by 1882, which was in 1887 superseded by the Worthing Working Men's Excelsior Cycling Club (now the Worthing Excelsior Cycling Club). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Scarlet Runners were Worthing's first rugby club , who were in existence by 1883, changing their name to Worthing Football Club (RU) shortly afterwards.
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