SELSTON FC

The club was formed in 1968 and played its early football in the Alfreton & District Sunday League, of which they were a founding member.  They continued in the league for around eight seasons whilst establishing themselves.
For the 1977/78 Season, their attention turned to the Nottinghamshire Sunday Football League in which they finished runners-up in Division Three of the Premier section in their first season under the management of Graham (Dart) D’Arcy.
A period was spent in the different local leagues, but in the late 80’s with the ambition to progress, the club decided to concentrate on Saturday football and joined the Central Midlands   Football League. In the 1990-91 season the first team won the C.M.L Division One Cup.
In the meantime, the club had taken on board their first junior sides, operating initially in the Rowsley & District Youth League and shortly afterwards in the Derby City Youth League, Mansfield Youth League and in the late 90’s the Notts Imperial Youth League.  Junior football has really taken off in recent years, growing from four junior teams in 2008 to nine for the 2016/17 season, with many honours won along the way.
The club had a period without senior football and concentrated on the junior section. In 2006 the decision was made to start a men’s team again; a side was entered the Midland Regional Alliance for the 06/07 season. This team had notable success winning Division 2 in 2007/08 by a margin of 14 points and scoring 175 goals. They also won the MRA Junior Cup that year, beating Division 1 side Willington 8-2 in the final and lifted the Notts Junior Cup, beating The Three Crowns 3-1 in extra time.
A reserve side was started in 2009/10 in the MRA Division Two and despite attempting to keep a pathway open to the first team for junior players, the reserves team proved difficult to keep going. However, they did have some success, winning the Notts Junior Cup in 2011/12 as the first team had done a few seasons earlier.
In 2011/12 the first team joined the Notts Senior League, finishing mid table in the first two seasons and doing reasonably well in cup competitions. The 2013/14 season saw the first team crowned champions of the NSL, during this season the team also defeated two teams from higher leagues in the Notts Senior Cup, Radford FC and AFC Mansfield.
In the 2015/16 season the men’s team re-joined the Central Midlands League after an absence of around 15 years. In the first season back in the league they took the South division by storm, a mid season streak of 15 successive league wins helping them to the title. The Parishioners eventually finished top; 10 points clear of their nearest rivals to take the league trophy at the first attempt.
In the 2016/17 season the men’s first team won the Central Midlands League South again, an unprecedented feat in the new CMFL North/South set up and they also bagged the Buckingham   Insurance League Cup. Plans were afoot to upgrade the ground should the team win the league again and following great work by the committee, managers and first team players, physical works were completed by March 2017 to enable the ground to be graded ‘H’ – good enough for step 6. Alongside this the application for promotion was submitted and funding sought for floodlights. Both were successful and, as a result Selston FC will play at step 6 for the first time in their history. Floodlights are due to be operational by September 2017.
The club won several awards off the field in season 16/17 too: FA Charter Standard Club of the Year for Nottinghamshire, FA Charter Standard Club of the Year for East of England Region and Secretary of the year for the Central Midlands league.
The men’s reserve team finished 3rd in the Notts Senior League Division Two and were promoted to Division One. The club will operate 10 junior teams and 3 men’s teams in 2017/18. East Midlands Counties league awaited and a solid 4th place finish in our first ever season at step 6.
Season 2018/19 will go down as the greatest ever in the club’s history, winning the East Midlands Counties League by 6 points while not having a playing budget, full credit to the management and players. The club also competed in the FA Vase for the first time since 2001, along with qualifying for the FA Cup which will be our debut in the competition for season 2019/20 as well as Step 5 football coming to The Parish Hall, the clubs highest ever position after a remarkable 6 promotions in 10 years.

Admission Prices: Adults £5  Concessions £3

Directions: From Junction 27 head towards underwood, turn left at the dog and quayle pub onto sandhill road then turn right onto alfreton road follow the road till you get to the co-op then turn right past the garage onto Mansfield road, follow the road and the club will be on the left-hand side.