At our Annual Awards Evening this month, we were proud to present Pulborough FC with their FA Long Service Award celebrating the clubs 100-year anniversary.

Pulborough FC are a true village side, the club's players have historically mostly been locally born, raised, schooled and/or working in the village or nearby.

Those involved with the club over the years have been drawn from all walks of life, and a wide variety of occupations, brought together by their shared passion for the game of football and the comradeship of belonging to what has always been a genuinely local team.

Their opponents over the years have been similar clubs from neighbouring villages and towns, many of which also have histories stretching back to the 19th Century. These long-standing rivalries make for hotly contested league and cup games!

There are no official club records until 1922, but newspaper cuttings can be dated back to 1898. It is possible that Pulborough Football Club - nicknamed 'The Robins' could have been founded before this date.

The earliest newspaper cutting reports that in September 1898 they beat their local rivals Storrington 13-0.

Home matches were originally played on Soper's Meadows, which is now Stane Street Close. After World War 2, the Recreation Ground was created and has been the clubs home ground ever since.

It is thought that the following years the team only played friendlies until joining the West Sussex Football League for the 1907/08 season, where they have had reasonable success and remain to this day.

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