HISTORY
Stansted Football Club is an English football club based in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex. The club are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at Hargrave Park.

There are references to the club existing in 1892, but the founding date is put at the point when the club moved to Green Meadow. They won the Stansted & District Challenge Cup in 1914 and 1922, and by the 1930s they were playing in the East Herts League, which they won in 1934–35. In 1937 they moved to Hargrave Park. After World War II they were admitted to the Herts Senior County League, and joined the Premier Division in 1956. They were relegated to Division One after finishing bottom of the division in 1964–65, where they remained until being founder members of the Essex Senior League in 1971.

In 1983–84 they reached the final of the FA Vase, where they defeated Stamford 3–2. That season also saw them win the East Anglian Cup, the league cup, and the Eastern Floodlit Cup, as well as defeating Coggeshall Town 15–0 in the league, setting its record margin of victory. In 2009–10 they won the Essex Senior League for the first time but were denied promotion due to Hargrave Park failing to meet the necessary criteria.

Ground
Stansted's Hargrave Park ground was opened in 1935, with the club moving to the site two years later. In 1983, floodlights were installed at the ground, being inaugurated in a friendly against Tottenham Hotspur, following the building of the clubhouse a year prior.

Honours
FA Vase
Winners 1983–84
Essex Senior League
Champions 2009–10
League Cup winners 1983–84
East Herts League
Champions 1934–35
East Anglian Cup
Winners 1983–84
Eastern Floodlit Cup
Winners 1983–84
Stansted & District Challenge Cup
Winners 1913–14, 1921–22

Records
Highest League Position: First in Essex Senior League, 2009–10
Best FA Cup performance: Third qualifying round, 1996–97
Best FA Vase performance: Winners, 1983–84
Attendance: 828 vs Whickham, FA Vase, 1983–84Best FA Vase performance: Second round, 2012–13

Geography
Stansted Mountfitchet is an English village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, near the Hertfordshire border, 35 miles (56 km) north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533, increasing to 6,011 at the 2011 census. By the 2021 census, it had increased to 8621. The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet railway station.

Stansted Mountfitchet is situated in north-west Essex near the Hertfordshire border and 3 miles (5 km) north of Bishop's Stortford. Stansted Airport is 2 miles (3 km) from the village. The village has three primary schools (Bentfield Primary School, St Mary's (C of E) Primary School, and Magna Carta Primary Academy) and one high school which was renamed the Forest Hall School in September 2013.

History
Stansted was a Saxon settlement (the name means 'stony place' in Anglo-Saxon) that predates the Norman conquest. In the 1086 Domesday Book, Stansted was in the ancient hundred of Uttlesford. It was one of many villages and manors controlled by the powerful Robert Gernon de Montfichet (from Montfiquet in Calvados, Normandy). His elder son was William de Montfichet. By 1290, Stansted began to be referred to as Stansted Mountfitchet to differentiate it from Stansted, Kent. A small remnant of his castle remains, around which a reconstruction of an early Norman castle has been built. Believed to have been fortified originally in the Iron Age, and subsequently by the Romans and Vikings, construction of the Norman castle began in 1066. Lord Mountfitchet is also considered the 11th-century builder of Montfichet's Tower in London.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, built in the 1120s, is a redundant church under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The brick west tower was added in 1692. A chapel of ease dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist was built in 1889 nearer the centre of the village and is now the village church. Stansted Hall was built in 1871 by William Fuller Maitland (d. 1876).

22/07/24 Friendly
HODDESDON TOWN 0
STANSTED 3
(Correy Davison, Luke Skinner, Joe Pullen)

20/07/24 Friendly
HAVERHILL ROVERS 1
STANSTED 5
(Jamhal Godword 2, Correy Davison, Josh Darby, Zatash Ali)

16/07/24 Friendly
ST MARGARETSBURY 1
STANSTED 6
(Jamhal Godword 2, Correy Davison, Josh Darby, John Clarke, Dominic Locke)

13/07/24 Friendly
STANWAY PEGASUS 1
STANSTED 5
(Correy Davison 3, Dominic Locke (Pen), Trialist)

Stansted finished in 14th place in the Spartans South Midlands Football League in 2023/24 with 40 points from 36 matches. Their record was won 11, drawn 7, and lost 18. They scored 47 goals and conceded 67 for a -20 goal difference. Previously long-term members of the Essex Senior League, Stansted were transferred back to the ESL for season 2024/25.

Note – This is the player list for 23/24 from the FA Full Time Website and will differ from players retained for this season and new additions. The players in bold played in pre-season, so it can be assumed they are still with/have joined the club.

Charlie Adams
Samuel Adetiba
Jacob Barlow
James Baughurst
Lewis Brougham
Freddie Burrell
Joseph Clark
Cabhan Clarke
John Clarke
Carl Conway
Billy Coyne
Harrison Crowther
Correy Davidson
Joshua Darby
Jake Davis
Andre Embalo
Jardel Francis-Adeyinka
Billy Gannon
Matthew Gill
Jamhal Godword
Finley Gregory
Stanley Gurney
George Hamill
Archie Hammond
Callum Howell
Maliq Jikiemi
David Limber
Dominic Locke
Christopher Manangu
Thomas Massey
Mitchell May
Michael Mignot
Tom Millett
Jack Mitchell
Louis Monk
Thando Moyo
Jacob Noble
Veron Nzinga
George O'Connor
Emmanuel Osei-Owusu
Kyrell Palmer
Alfie Parker
Scott Piggott
Tim Pitman
George Pullen
Joe Pullen
Jason Reynolds-Blanche
Jordan Roberts
Sonny Shilling
Ashaan Siddik
Luke Skinner
Joshua Stokes
Callum Stringer
Charlie Turner
Sergio Uyi
Shaye Willats