HISTORY
Athletic Newham Football Club is a football club based in London, England. They are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at the Terence McMillan Stadium in Plaistow.

The club was founded in 2015 as a youth team, then known as Lopes Tavares London, before moving into adult football the following season, joining the Premier Division of the Essex Alliance Football League. They played at the Memorial Recreation Ground in West Ham. They finished eighth in their first season and fifth in 2017–18, before successfully applying to join the new Division One South of the Eastern Counties Football League for the 2018–19 season. On 27 August 2020, the club announced the renaming of the club to Athletic Newham. In 2021, the club were promoted to the Essex Senior League based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.

Ground
The club play at the Terence McMillan Stadium. The stadium has one stand with seats for 192 spectators. The stadium is named after the first Mayor of Newham. The club share the ground with Clapton.

Records
Highest league position: 6th in Essex Senior League, 2022–23
Best FA Vase performance: Fourth round, 2021–22
Best FA Cup performance: Preliminary Round, 2021–22

Geography
The London Borough of Newham is a London borough created in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. It covers an area previously administered by the Essex County boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, authorities that were both abolished by the same act. The name Newham reflects its creation and combines the compass points of the old borough names. Situated in the Inner London part of East London, Newham has a population of 387,576, which is the fourth highest of the London boroughs and also makes it the 26th most populous district in England. The local authority is Newham London Borough Council.

It is 5 miles (8 km) east of the City of London, north of the River Thames (the Woolwich Ferry and Woolwich foot tunnel providing the only crossings to the south), bounded by the River Lea to its west and the North Circular Road to its east. Newham was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium, and also contains the London City Airport. Major districts include East Ham, West Ham, Stratford, Plaistow, Forest Gate, Beckton and Canning Town.

History
The borough was formed on 1 April 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, as a borough of the newly formed Greater London. It broadly covered the areas of the county borough of East Ham and the county borough of West Ham that were abolished by the same act. These in turn were successors to the ancient civil and ecclesiastical parishes of East Ham and West Ham. Green Street and Boundary Road mark the former boundary between the two.

North Woolwich also became part of the borough (previously part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, the majority of which lay south of the River Thames), as did a small area around Gallions Reach west of the River Roding which had previously been part of the Municipal Borough of Barking. East Ham, West Ham, and Barking had all historically been part of the county of Essex, whilst Woolwich had been part of Kent prior to becoming part of the County of London in 1889. Newham was devised for the borough as an entirely new name.

Manor of Ham
The area of the modern borough was at one time occupied by a manor (an estate or landholding with certain legal responsibilities) called 'Ham'. The name comes from Old English 'hamm' and means 'a dry area of land between rivers or marshland', referring to the location of the settlement within boundaries formed by the rivers Lea, Thames, and Roding and their marshes.

The first known written use of the term, as 'Hamme', is in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, in which King Edgar granted the area to Ealdorman Athelstan. The territory was undivided at that time. A subsequent charter of 1037 describes a transfer of land which has been identified with East Ham, indicating that the division of the territory occurred between 958 and 1037.

The Domesday Book shows landholdings divided further, and by the end of the 12th century these manors were being served, singly or in groups of manors, by the familiar ancient parishes of West Ham, East Ham, and Little Ilford (now also known as Manor Park), with some areas by the Roding a part of Barking, and the area now known as North Woolwich attached to Woolwich. The earliest recorded use of the name West Ham, Westhamma, comes in 1186, and East Ham, Estham, is recorded in 1204.

The boundary between West and East Ham was drawn from the now lost Hamfrith Waste and Hamfrith Wood in the north (then the southernmost parts of Epping Forest which extended as far south as the Romford Road at that time), along Green Street down to the small, also lost, natural harbour known as Ham Creek. Ham Creek was filled-in in the nineteenth century, but the small residual head of the creek still formed the boundary between the two areas into the late 20th century, when what remained was also filled in.

The formation of the modern borough in 1965 saw the merger of West and East Ham, together with North Woolwich and Barking west of the River Roding. Little Ilford had become part of East Ham as part of earlier local government reorganisations.

03/08/24 FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round
CHIPSTEAD 0
ATHLETIC NEWHAM 2
(Anderson Silva Baro, Abdul Khamis)

31/07/24 ESL PREMIER
ROMFORD 1
ATHLETIC NEWHAM 1
(Alessio Akabuogu)

27/07/24 ESL PREMIER
SAFFRON WALDEN TOWN 0
ATHLETIC NEWHAM 1
(Abdul Khamis)

Athletic Newham are currently 7th in the ESL table after two matches played. They have won 1 and drawn 1, scoring 2 and conceding 1 for a +1 goal difference.

On the 20th of January 2024, The Bridge went to the Terry Mac Stadium and won 2-1. Idris Aminu scored for the home side and The Bridge staged a late, late show to win with an 89th-minute goal from Usman Temitope and a 94th-minute winner from Michael Agboola.

Earlier in the season at Lower Road on the 28th of August The Bridge won 2-1 with Michael Agboola, who seems to enjoy playing Athletic Newham, scoring twice. Jacques Leurs was on target for Newham

Note – This is the player list for 24/25 from the FA Full-Time Website
Registered Players
Alessio Ikenna Akabuogu
Idris Aminu
Sebastian Barford
Samuel Benson
Kwesi Botchey
Charles James Campbell
Oren Campbell
Rodney Dame
Leonardo Luis De Carvalho Pedro
Christopher De Nguidjol
Nathan Dennis
Yousupha Gaye
Louis Hiobi
Custodio B Insumbrem Junior
Jamal Jimoh
Abdul Khamis
Tychique Kinkela
Alex Kozak
Wilson Mendes
Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed
Edgar Musoke
Derek O'Halem
Jamie Obama Nvumba
Samim Rahmani
George Rankin
James Runham
Hassan Saleh Togba
Julian Sarmiento-Ramirez
Anderson Silva Baro
Inesh Sumithran
Jahzeen Vassall