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When is our 50th birthday?
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Is there a specific date where we officially became a club?
If it's not been yet I do wonder how close it would be to the playoff final date.
Would be an insane way to see in 50 years win or lose.
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To be honest, it's slightly tricky to pin down a specific date - but it definitely hasn't already happened. The best bet is probably 24 September 1976.
Stevenage Athletic's last match was 1 May 1976 but, right up to the start of the 1976-77 season, Stevenage Athletic's chairman was still insisting they would be playing a full Southern League season, even though they had no players. They only pulled out officially in early-to-mid August.
The 'breakaway' group that became the current club was around in June but, as I understand it, 24 September 1976 was the first formal meeting of Stevenage FC and is probably the closest you can get to an 'official' date.
Edited by SFC-Chris at 19:53:34 on 5th May 2026
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On a more general point about birthdays, which some people overlook, is if it was September 1976 then we are already in our 50th year. September 2026 we will be the beginning of our 51st year.
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24 September? Seriously?
That's only my birthday 🤣
That's made my evening
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The King has two birthdays,weird.
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Jason Goodliffe?
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Would rather meet him than Charlie .
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Love it! Yes, 24 September, there was a meeting at Stevenage Swimming Centre where, if I recall correctly, the committee members were formalised and the club's constitution was agreed.
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Are we the youngest club in the Football league?
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MK Dons - 2004
AFC Wimbledon - 2002
Stevenage - 1976
However, I disagree with the MK Dons date. The old Wimbledon club moved to MK but it was still the old infrastructure, board, players, management, etc. They just changed name.
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Yeah I took those two teams into consideration but I thought because of the changes in legal name/ownership/relocation Etc it didn't really count.
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Always frustrates me that less people hate AFC Wimbledon for the way they treated Kingstonian. Of all the clubs out there they should have known and done better.
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They like to pass the blame to Chelsea, as if they didn't already know what Chelsea were going to use it for.
And don't forget their generous £1m donation. Kingstonian could have purchased a 2 bedroom apartment to play their home games in with all that money.
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On that think Chelsea W moving all home games to Stamford Bridge so what are odds they sell off land for flats
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Probably a covenant innit id guess otherwise it'd have been sold for building one of the other times it changed hands.
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I absolutely despise them, and have for a long time.
Mostly because of their fans and their entirely unjustified holier-than-thou attitude.
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They are scum. Probably the team I hate most in the division.
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Off the top of my head, Newport County and Fleetwood are both technically younger but they were refounded after the original club ceased to exist - so depends if you take the date of the original founding or of the refounding (mind you, you could make a similar argument about us with Stevenage Town/Athletic). AFC Wimbledon are obviously younger but there's the whole separate history there too. I might be missing some others ...
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MKDons shirley
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