History
The club was established in 1953, as Westfield Boys Club and started playing in the local Woking and District Football league. During their time in the local laegues the club won the Surrey Junior Charity Cup and the Surrey Junior Cup. After a few seasons the club moved up to the Surrey intermediate leagues.
The club for the 1962–63 season then joined the Parthenon League, now under the name of Westfield and became runners-up at the first attempt. The following season saw the club join the Surrey Senior League. Their ninth season in the Surrey Senior League, 1972–73, saw the club clinch the league title and complete a double success by winning the league cup. Further succes followed the next season as they successfully defended the league title. The 1974–75 campaign saw the club make their debut in the FA Vase, where they lost to Chertsey Town, and finish bottom of the league however they did not suffer relegation back to the intermediate leagues.
In 1978 the club became a founder member of the Home Counties League which was then renamed the Combined Counties Football League the folowing season. The next twenty seven seasons the club stayed in the Combined Counties league, despite finishing bottom three times in this period, during which time they managed to make it to the Concours Challenge Trophy, but lost out to Hartley Wintney in the final. This period also saw the club enter the FA Cup for the first time when they met Dorking in the extra preliminary qualifying round, but lost 2–1. The 2005–06 campaign saw the club finish in eleventh place, but they were relegated to Divison one as their ground did not meet the criteria to stay in the Premier Division.
The 2011–12 season saw the club make their first cup final for over twenty seasons when they met Warlingham in the Division One Challenge Cup,but lost 4–2.
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