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Sutton United
Full name	Sutton United Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Us
Founded	1898
Ground	Borough Sports Ground, Sutton (Capacity 7,000)
Chairman	Bruce Elliott
Manager	Ernie Howe
League	Conference South
2006-07	Conference South, 12th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Sutton United Football Club is an English football team currently playing in the Conference South league. They are based in the Sutton, England, and play their home games at the Borough Sports Ground in Gander Green Lane. This has been the club's home since 1911.

Contents 1 Club History 2 Notable former managers 3 Notable former players 4 Rivals 5 Current squad 6 Trivia 7 External links

The club was formed on 5 March 1898 when Sutton Guild Rovers FC and Sutton Association FC (formerly Sutton St Barnabas FC) agreed to merge during a meeting at the Robin Hood Hotel (which still stands today). Sutton adopted their unique club colours of amber & chocolate after it was discovered that purchasing club caps in the planned claret & gold (similar to that now worn by Bradford City) was too expensive.

The club was a member of the Athenian League from 1921 to 1963, when it joined the Isthmian League and made its first appearance in the final of the FA Amateur Cup, losing 4-2 to Wimbledon (a game famous for Eddie Reynolds, the Wimbledon forward, scoring all four goals with his head). The club reached the final again in 1969, when, as strong favourites, they lost 2-1 to North Shields. The following year saw the club reach the 4th round of the FA Cup, when they were drawn at home to English champions and European Cup semi-finalists Leeds United. A club record crowd of 14,000 saw Sutton lose 6-0, but they drew praise from all quarters, including the Leeds and later England manager Don Revie. The club reached the final of the FA Trophy in 1981, but suffered their 3rd defeat at Wembley, 1-0 to Bishops Stortford.

The club won the Isthmian League championship in 1985. After refusing promotion to the Vauxhall Conference, they retained the championship the following year and this time accepted promotion. In January 1989, the club beat First Division Coventry City 2-1 in the third round of the FA Cup (the goalscorers were Tony Rains and Matthew Hanlan), joining a small number of non-league clubs to beat top-division opponents in the competition. In 1979 the club became the winners of the Anglo-Italian Cup, beating Chieti 2-1.

Sutton have claimed the scalps of several other League clubs in the FA Cup including Aldershot, Peterborough United, Torquay United and Colchester United.

In 1991, the club suffered relegation to the Isthmian League, but gained promotion again as champions in 1999. Unfortunately, the stay in the Conference lasted just one season as the U's were relegated again.

The club is also notable as the first-ever opponent of AFC Wimbledon, defeating the Dons 4-0 in a pre-season friendly in July 2002 in front of a 4500+ crowd.

Sutton United finished midtable 14th in the Conference South at the end of 2006/2007 season.

After a poor start to the 2007–08 campaign, Ian Hazel resigned to be replaced with Ernie Howe.

• George Smith
• Sid Cann, manager 1962-1973, during which period the club reached two FA Amateur Cup finals
• Barrie Williams, defeated the holders of the FA Cup, Coventry City in 1989

• Efan Ekoku - Played in the Premiership. Including Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich. Also played Internationally for Nigeria.
• Dario Gradi - Started his career with Sutton United and then Tooting & Mitcham . Then going into management with Wimbledon and Crewe.
• Nicky Bailey - Currently plays in Coca Cola League One for Southend formerly with Barnet.
• Jon Nurse - Currently plays in the Conference National with Dagenham & Redbridge. Formerly of Stevenage.
• Paul McKinnon - Sutton United's record goalscorer. Played for Sutton in 1973-1977 until 1990-1991 and then 1993-1994. Also played for Blackburn Rovers.
• Lenny Dennis - Jamaican international.
• Richard Harris - Member of the successful Crystal Palace youth team. Plays centre forward. Released in the summer of 2007. Now plays for Bromley

Sutton United's main rivals include Carshalton Athletic, AFC Wimbledon, Kingstonian, Woking and Tooting & Mitcham.

Sutton United have a fierce rivalry with their nearest neighbours Carshalton Athletic as they are both based in London Borough of Sutton. They both used to play in the Conference South together attracting crowds of over 1,000. The most recent game is 2 Jan 2006 at Borough Sports Ground with the result Sutton 1 - 1 Carshalton Athletic. Furthermore Sutton earned bragging rights on 27th December 2003 by beating Carshalton Athletic 6-0 at the Borough Sports Ground.

No. Position Player GK Phil Wilson GK Gareth Williams DF John Scarbrough (captain) DF Dean Sammut DF Jack Haverson DF Tom Hughes DF Craig Tanner DF Lewis Gonsalves DF Alan Bray DF Ouzo Opara MF Paul Honey MF Bryan Glover MF Jason Goodchild MF Tony Martin MF Rob Hughes MF Bashiru Alimi MF Zak Graham MF Nicky Greene FW Craig Dundas FW Warren McBean FW Jason Henry FW Ross White FW Alieu Jallow FW Liam Wright FW Harry Ottaway

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

In 2007 Lucozade (Isotonic sports drink) made a series of adverts about sports professionals using Lucozade. Several Sutton Utd players can be seen in the football scenes. John Scarborough and Paul Honey also feature in printed adverts from the same campaign.

• Official club website
• 'From the Lane' Unofficial Fan Site
• 'Gandermonium' Unofficial Fan Site
• 'Sutton Exiles' Map of Sutton United Supporters Across the Globe

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