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    Ryman League

Boreham Wood Football Club

In the late 1940s a football club known as Boreham Wood Rovers called a committee meeting to allow its members to discuss the possibility of changing its name.

At that time it was no longer fashionable for clubs to have extravagant names, and the committee had heard of plans to start another team to represent the village.

So, to ensure that the team kept its reputation as the village's main side, Boreham Wood Rovers became Boreham Wood FC at the meeting on August 14, 1947.

In the club's opening season it ran two teams, one of which finished as runners-up in the Barnet and District League Division One and lost in the final of the 'A' Challenge Cup.

Boreham Wood FC started out playing on a pitch at the Meadow Road playing fields, where the Rovers team had held their home games since the 1930s.

According to the club's records, its first honour came in 1972, when it won the Herts Senior Challenge Cup, a trophy which it reclaimed in 1999 and 2002.

Wood were promoted to the Ryman Premier Division in 2001, as the champions of the league's division one, a title which they had held six years earlier.

Boreham Wood fans have enjoyed two FA Cup Second Round matches in recent years, including a thrilling 2-1 defeat against Luton Town in 1997.

The following year Wood placed their name in the hat for the third round, after drawing 1-1 away at Cheltenham Town, but they went on to lose the replay 2-0.

The club's most successful league campaign came in that same season, when they finished as runners-up in the premier division.

Boreham Wood FC play at Meadow Park, in Broughinge Road, Borehamwood, just a few feet away from where the club had its pitch when it was formed more than 50 years ago.

12:20 Friday 16th August 2002
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