HERTFORD TOWN FC
Hertford Town Football Club is a football club based in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. We currently compete in the Southern League Division One Central and play our games at the Smile IT Stadium. Established in 1901, we began under the name ‘Port Vale Rovers’ but it was quickly renamed to ‘Hertford Football Club’ to gain recognition as the town’s main club. Following a merger with Hertford United, we were renamed ‘Hertford Town’. We joined the Eastern Division of the Hertfordshire Senior County League for the 1908–09 season, which saw us finish as runners-up. We
also moved from Hartham and began to play our games at Hertingfordbury Park. We were placed in the Central Division the following season, but finished bottom and were moved into the Eastern Division in 1910. We also competed in the East Herts League which we won in 1912-13.The following season, we retained our title and finished as runner up of the Eastern Division. Around this time, a wooden stand was built, marking our first development of the ground. During the Second World War, the league was abandoned. When it restarted in 1945, we were placed in the Central Division, finishing bottom of the table in the 1945-46 season. Despite this poor performance, we were moved back into the Premier Division the following season, but we went on to finish
bottom of the table again. The wooden stand was also destroyed by a fire in 1946, topping off a poor season for us. The ground's owner passed away the following year which forced us to drop out of football for a season due to the unavailability of the ground. We returned to the Spartan League in 1948, where we were placed into Division One East. After winning the division in 1949-50, we were promoted back to the Premier Division in 1950.

The late 1950s saw the next major development in our ground. Pitch drainage was improved, a wooden clubhouse was built and the ground was fully enclosed with a concrete wall. In 1959, a 300 seater stand with dressing rooms and a boardroom
was completed, along with extra toilet facilities for the spectators in the ground. A four-step concrete terrace was built opposite this stand. A few years later, a six-step concrete terrace was completed at the south end of the ground behind the goal. This became known as ‘The Stable End’.

Around these times, during the 1960-61 and the 1961-62 seasons, we joined the Delphian League and won back-to-back league titles. The 1962-63 season was abandoned due to bad weather but we won both the League Cup and the Eastern Section of the emergency competition. We also won the East Anglian Cup by beating Boston United 1–0 in the final, a match played at home in front of a crowd of 3,000. The Delphian League was then abandoned at the end of the season. We, among many other teams from the Delphian League, joined the new Division Two of the
Athenian League. We finished fourth in 1963-64 and earned promotion to Division One. We also went on to win the league's Memorial Shield in 1967–68. In 1974, a new clubhouse was built at a cost of over £25,000, which replaced the old wooden one. During this time, we switched leagues twice but settled in Division Two of the Isthmian League. The division was renamed Division One in1977, and we were faced with relegation to Division Two North after finishing bottom in 1984-85.
We were placed into Division three after some reorganisation from the league but earned promotion to Division Two after finishing runners-up in 1998–99. However, we were relegated the following season. On January 26th 1992, the clubhouse was destroyed by a fire and was replaced by a much smaller building. After further reorganisation from the league, we were placed in Division One North in 2002 but were quickly relegated to Division Two. After the division was disbanded in 2006, we joined the Premier Division of the Spartan South Midlands League. We finished runners-up
in 2016-17 and were promoted to Division One North of the Isthmian League. At the end of the 2020-21 season which was heavily affected by Covid 19, we were transferred to Division One Central of the Southern League. In October 2021, we made more pitch developments by installing a cork-filled 3G pitch. Having this all-weather pitch has enabled us to share the ground with other clubs. In the 2022-23 season, St. Panteleimon FC used the Stadium for their home matches and in the 2023-24 season, Hatfield Town used the stadium for their home matches. In 2023, Smile IT Solutions
sponsored the ground and renamed it ‘The Smile IT Stadium’. Currently, Hertford have united with Hertford Town Youth, Hertford Town Girls, Hertford Town Women's, Hertford Town’s Inclusive Team and Hertford Town’s Walking Football Team who all base themselves at the club, bringing the community together. We believe there is an opportunity for everyone at Hertford and the club can be used as a community hub.


12	Waltham	20	11
13	Biggleswade	20	13
14	MK Irish	18	16
15	Hertford	16	14
16	Leverstock Green	15	15
17	Barton Rovers	15	16
18	BiggleswadeTown	13	14

Hertford Town

Match Outlook

Division One Central