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The next away match
Saturday 10th December 2016: Dorking Wanderers
Ground address: Westhumble Community Ground, London
Road, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6AD
Directions:
By Car:- -
Leave M25 at jcn 9 of the M25 signpost Leatherhead / Dorking.
At second roundabout take A24 to Dorking. The ground
is
directly off the A 24 6 miles from the M25 turn off. However Google Street View seems to suggest
that as the ground entrance is on the London bound side cars will need to travel to the
next roundabout and back! 56 miles, about 1 hr 10 mins
By Train:-
Nearest Stations: Boxhill and West Humble
The AA says that its approximately 82 miles and takes 1Hour and 32 minutes from Sittingbourne
Dorking Wanderers are going great guns this season lying second in the table, two points off
the top spot. They have had a couple hiccups in form of late losing at home to Three Bridges
and then drawing with Ramsgate, but they came storming back on Saturday with a 4-2 victory
at Hastings Utd.
The club was only formed in 1999 and started playing in the Crawley and District Football
League. After their first season in the Crawley league they switched to the West Sussex Football
League and immediately won the Division Four championship. The club made further progress
the following season when they finished as runners-up in Division Three gaining promotion
to Division Two. The club climbed the league ladder again two seasons later in the 2003–
04 campaign when they finished as champions of Division Two. The 2005–06 season saw the
club clinch promotion to the top division of the West Sussex league when they finished third in
Division one. In their second season in the Premier Division the club finished as champions
and gained promotion to Division Three of the Sussex County Football League. The promotion
was made possible by the club moving to their current home of West Humble Playing Field,
during the successful 2006–07 campaign.
The club spent the next four seasons in Division Three of the County League, and gained promotion
as champions at the end of the 2010–11 campaign. ] The next season saw the club finish
third and qualify for promotion to Division One, however the league denied them entry to
the division as their ground was considered not suitable for that division. However the club appealed
against this decision to the F.A., and they overruled the decision after an independent
ground grading visit confirmed that the ground reached the necessary standards for Division
One football.
In 2015, Wanderers were promoted to the Isthmian League Division 1 (South). The club has
become the dominant football club in Dorking and the surrounding areas as their six promotions
in eight years has caused major interest. In March 2016, Wandererers in effect rescued
their local rivals Dorking F.C. from bankruptcy as they created the Dorking Football Alliance.
This means that Dorking F.C. will play at Westhumble next season and that Wanderers will
move to the renovated Meadowbank Stadium in the centre of the town for season 2017/18 after
they proposed £4 million development set to commence on the site.