London Colney FC crest London Colney Football Club · 1907

Since 1907

Our story

A village football club that has weathered more than a century — and has a world record to show for it.

London Colney has been playing football since 1907, first at Whitehorse Lane and, since 1976, at Cotlandswick. From the Mid Herts and Herts County Leagues to the South Midlands and today's Spartan South Midlands, the Blue Boys have spent a century climbing, falling and climbing again — always in blue, always in the same corner of Hertfordshire.

The South Midlands years brought a steady haul of cups and titles, and in 2001/02 the club's greatest season yet: champions by a ten-point margin — the widest in the league's history — with 119 goals, only two defeats, the first twenty-seven games unbeaten, and Gary Sippetts scoring forty-five of his own.

What came next tested the club far more than any trophy flattered it. Relegation and years of instability nearly finished London Colney off — champions on the pitch in 2016/17, but almost wound up off it. In 2017/18 a new consortium under Gareth Davies and former professional Ken Charlery stepped in to save and rebuild the club, backing a young squad to carry it forward. The Blue Boys are still here, and still climbing.

Key moments

  1. 1907 Club founded, playing at Whitehorse Lane.
  2. 1976 Moved to Cotlandswick — home ever since.
  3. 1992 Into the South Midlands League — a decade of cups and titles begins.
  4. 2001/02 Champions by a record 10 points; 119 goals, 27 unbeaten, Gary Sippetts with 45.
  5. 2016/17 Spartan Premier champions on the pitch — then nearly folded off it.
  6. 2017/18 Saved and rebuilt by a new consortium under Gareth Davies and Ken Charlery.
London Colney under the floodlights at Cotlandswick

Guinness World Record

The longest cup tie in football.

In the winter of 1971 it took London Colney six replays to settle a single cup tie against Leavesden Hospital — finally won 1–0 in the sixth meeting on 17 December. It remains the longest tie in the history of the game.

A century of the Blue Boys

Standing on the shoulders of legends

A team photograph survives for more than twenty seasons between 1907 and 2020. Read across the years and the club's whole story is there — the gaps as much as the photos.

  1. 1907
  2. 1909
  3. 1920
  4. 1921
  5. 1922
  6. 1927
  7. 1929
  8. 1946
  9. 1952
  10. 1953
  11. 1958
  12. 1962
  13. 1974
  14. 1978
  15. 1986
  16. 1992
  17. 1999
  18. 2011
  19. 2014
  20. 2016
  21. 2019
  22. 2020

Records & honours

Full honours →

Record goalscorers

The biggest seasons in club history.

  1. 50 Matt Newman 2011/12
  2. 45 Gary Sippetts 2001/02
  3. 41 Jon Clements 2016/17

A century of silverware

15 League titles
28 Cups & trophies

Winners in seven different decades, from a Mid Herts title in 1922/23 to the Colney Cup in 2023/24.