Civil Service F.C.
Civil Service Football Club is an English football club based in London. Founded in 1863, it is one of the oldest clubs in the country and plays at Kings House Sports Ground in Chiswick. The club's chairman is Jim Kellett and the 1st XI manager is John Sewell. In the 2024-25 season they compete in the Southern Amateur League Senior Division 1, finishing 5th of 10.
Originally the club played both association football and rugby. Civil Service, along with Blackheath F.C., is one of the founder members of both the Football Association (FA) and the Rugby Football Union (RFU). The rugby side later became a separate club. The football club was among the 11 founding FA members in 1863 and took part in the first FA Cup in 1871-72. Members also helped organise England vs Scotland matches in 1870.
Civil Service helped popularize football in Europe through tours in the early 1900s and has honorary life memberships from Real Madrid and Slavia Prague. The club helped form several amateur leagues, including the Amateur Football Alliance, the Isthmian League (1906) and the Southern Amateur League (1907).
Honours include the London Senior Cup (1901), Middlesex Senior Cup (1908, 1913), and the Amateur Football Association Cup (1910, 1920, 1930). They won the Southern Amateur League titles in 1913 and 1914, and later in 1939, 1969 and 1971. They won the AFA Senior Cup in 1997, beating Lensbury 4–3.
Today Civil Service has eight sides in the Southern Amateur League, plus a Veterans side in the West London Veterans League. A women's section was established with a view to joining a league in 2019/20. The club also took part in the first official football match at Buckingham Palace in October 2013, celebrating the FA’s 150th anniversary, playing Polytechnic F.C.
Website: civilservicefc.com
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 11:06 (CET).