History
The club was established in 1888 and and by the 1905–06 season were winners of the Dorset Junior League. The club became members of the Dorset Senior League for the start of the 1931–32 campaignn and a season later were winners of the competition.
After the Second World War the club played in the FA Cup for the first time, reaching the Extra Preliminary Qualifying round before being knocked out by Alton Town. The club became one of the founder members of the Dorset Football Combination League at the start of the 1957–58 season. Four seasons later the club reached the final of the Dorset Senior Cup, for the first time but lost out to Dorchester Town. The club continued in the Combination until the end of the 1961–62 competition, when they dropped into the Dorset leagues again.
The 1976–77 Season saw the club return back to the Dorset Combination league. The club went onto win the combination league in the 1988–89 competition. They repeated another title success again in the 1996–97 campaign.
When the Wessex Football League expanded for the start of the 2004–05 campaign, the club moved to the newly created Division two. The next season saw the club enter the FA Vase for the first time, where they were knocked out in the First Qualification round by Westbury United. However, the 2009–10 season saw the club kicked out of the FA Vase fro fielding an illegible player, and things got worse for the club when under manager Stuart Housley, the club was found guilty of fielding ineligible players, falsifying team sheets, falsifying results cards and having incorrect procedures with regards to the registration of players. The club was fined £2,000 and the manager suspended from the Wessex league for 2 years. The club stayed in the Wessex league a further season, when they finished bottom of the league and were relegated to the Dorset Premier Football League.
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