About Hastings Football History...

Hastings Football History was established in 2015 with the aim of documenting the history of Hastings United and Hastings Town on a season‑by‑season basis. The project focuses on compiling results, attendances, and player appearances over the years, along with snippets of wider local football history. Although the early seasons were researched and published, much of the subsequent attention shifted towards other local teams. In particular, the brief history of the previously unfamiliar Hastings & St Leonards United, together with the histories of the Hastings and East Sussex Leagues, attracted considerable interest. However, the intention remains to complete and publish the full histories of Hastings United and Hastings Town in due course.

Whether you’re a local history enthusiast, a football supporter, involved in the game locally, or simply browsing, I hope you find Hastings Football History both interesting and useful. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please feel free to get in touch with any queries.

Able to help?

Since Hastings Football History began, many people have kindly shared old league tables, photographs, and matchday programmes to help fill in the many gaps. If you have any information you’re willing to share, it would be greatly appreciated — all contributors are credited.

Copyright

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Hastings Football History is a non‑profit project and generates no income.

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Sources

Contributors

Thanks to the following people for their generous help and support:

Aaron Hill

Aaron kindly shared a number of old East Sussex League, Eastbourne & Hastings League, and Southern Counties Combination league tables.

Alun Thomas

Alun has been researching the history of Hailsham Town FC and kindly provided final tables for the Southern Counties Combination from 1972–1975.

David Bauckham

David founded the popular Nomad Online website in 2000 and now runs an excellent football blog, that has featured several local clubs. He generously supplied his collection of Bob Lilliman’s photographs of Sussex grounds, originally hosted on Nomad Online.

David Mayne

David is fixtures and registrations secretary for Icklesham Casuals and is also involved with the Hastings & District Football Association. David has contributed significantly to the Hastings FA Full‑Time website and kindly shared old Hastings League tables.

Jenny Clemens

Jenny generously provided photographs from the collection of her late father, Vic Pain, who played for Hastings & St Leonards and Old Hastonians during the 1920s and 1930s.

Paula Monk

Many thanks to Paula for sharing photographs from the collection of her late uncle, Cyril Clarke.

Simon Stoddart

A long‑time Hastings supporter, Simon has a superb collection of photographs taken over many years. He also has a number of old VHS tapes featuring match action from the early 2000s, originally sold in the club shop and hopefully one day to be digitised. Thanks to Simon for allowing his images to be shared on Hastings Football History.

Tony Rolt

Thank you to Tony for providing information on the 1958–59 East Sussex League season.

Vernon Couchman

Vernon has kindly allowed photographs from his excellent collection to be shared. Some can also be found on his Twitter account, which focuses on old matchday programmes. A dedicated website is currently in progress.

Other links

A selection of websites and social media pages focusing on local history and football…