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East Thurrock United
Full name	East Thurrock United Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Rocks
Founded	1969
Ground	Rookery Hill, Essex (Capacity 4,000 (160 seated; 1000 covered))
Chairman	tbc
Manager	tbc
League	Isthmian League Premier Division
2006–07	Isthmian League Premier Division, 16th
Home colours 　 Away colours

East Thurrock United F.C is a football club based in Essex, England. The club was established on 27th April 1969 and currently plays in the Isthmian League Premier Division. An application to the Essex FA and the Isthmian League to rename the club Thurrock United from the start of the 2007-08 season was rejected.

The club was founded on 27th April 1969 by a group of fans who felt that the area around Corringham and Stanford-Le-Hope should have a senior non-league football club, following the successful Corringham Social Sunday League side, which had gained some local fame in the 1960s. The first league in which the club played was the Southern Essex Combination, where they spent one season before transferring to the Greater London League. After winning the championships of Division Two and Division One in successive seasons, the club gained senior status and with it a place in the Metropolitan London League, where they immediately gained promotion to the Premier Division.

By 1978 the team was playing in the London Spartan League but in 1979 they switched to the Essex Senior League, where they played until 1992 when a third-place finish saw them promoted to the Isthmian League, initially in Division Three. In 1999-2000 they won the championship of this division and were promoted to Division Two, then switched to Division One North upon league reorganisation. In 2004 reorganisation of the pyramid saw them moved into the Eastern Division of the Southern Football League, where they finished second in their first season, although further reorganisation saw them placed in the Premier Division of the Isthmian League, rather than the Southern League, where they remain to this day.

During the club's first season as members of the Southern Essex Combination, in 1969-70, home matches were played at Corringham Recreation Ground. They subsequently moved to the Billet in Stanford-Le-Hope, before ground-sharing with nearby Grays Athletic in order to achieve senior status. The club spent further spells sharing with Tilbury and Grays, among others until finally, with the help of the The FA, Thurrock Council and brewers Greene King, the club acquired some land and built Rookery Hill.

• Best league performance: 12th in Isthmian League Premier Division, 2005-06
• Best FA Cup performance: 4th qualifying round, 2003-04
• Best FA Trophy performance: 2nd round, 2004-05
• Best FA Vase performance: 5th round, 1988-89
• Record attendance: 1,250 v Woking FA Cup 4th qualifying round, 2003

• East Thurrock United at the Football Club History Database

• Official club site

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