History
The club was formed in 1890. The club joined the North Berks Football League Premier Division in the 1967–68 season. the club stayed in the Premier division for three seasons, suffering relegation at the end of the 1969–70 season, and then subsequent relegation again a season later to division two. It took the club another five seasons to get back to the top division of the North Berks league, doing so by winning Division two in the 1975–76 season. Over the next seven seasons the club won the league twice, in the 1977–78 season and the 1981–82 season. In their last season in the North Berks the club almost won the league again finishing on equal points with Berisfield, and so teh clubs had to play an end of season play-off which Kintbury lost 5–4.
In 1983–84 they joined the Hellenic league Division one gaining promotion to the Premier Division in the 1987–88 season and stayed there until 1999 when they left and joined the North Berks Football League. During the time they were in the North Berks league they managed to win the league 3 times in a row from the 2001–02 season and achieved the treble of the league, North Berks Cup & North Berks Charity Shield in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. They then rejoined the Hellenic Football League in the 2004–05 season and finished as runners up in Division one east in their first season back. They stayed in the division until the 2010/11 season, before leaving again to join the North Berks League.
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