Tower Hamlets Football Club is a football club based in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Division One South and play at the Phoenix Sports Ground in Barnehurst.
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Full name | Tower Hamlets Football Club | ||
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Founded | 2000 | ||
Ground | Phoenix Sports Ground, Barnehurst | ||
Chairman | Mohammed Nurul Hoque | ||
League | Eastern Counties League Division One South | ||
2021–22 | Southern Counties East League Premier Division, 20th of 20 (relegated) | ||
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Bethnal Green United was established in 2000 by Mohammed Nurul Hoque and Akhtar Ahmed as a community club.[1] The club played in several leagues, including the Canary Wharf Summer League, the Inner London Football League and the London Intermediate League, before joining the Middlesex County League. They were granted Senior status after winning the league's Premier Division in 2009, and were promoted to the Essex Senior League. In the 2009–10 season they finished fifth in the ESL and won both cups operated by the Essex Senior League, beating Burnham Ramblers 4–1 in the final of the Gordon Brasted Memorial Trophy.
In 2013, the club was renamed to Tower Hamlets.[2] During the 1990s, an unrelated club, also by the name of Tower Hamlets, played at the Mile End Stadium.[3] At the end of the 2019–20 season, the club were transferred to the Premier Division of the Southern Counties East League after moving to Phoenix Sports' ground in Barnehurst from the Mile End Stadium. The 2021–22 season saw Tower Hamlets finish bottom of the league and suffer relegation to step 6 however there was still uncertainty as to which league they would be playing in.[4]
In 2008, the club moved from Meath Gardens in Bethnal Green to the Mile End Stadium.[5] In 2020, Tower Hamlets moved to the Phoenix Sports Ground in Barnehurst.[6]
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