Chipping Norton Town FC
Chipping Norton Town Football Club
Chipping Norton Town Swifts Football Club is an English football club based in the picturesque Oxfordshire town of Chipping Norton. They play in the Witney and District Leagues with the first team in Division Three.
They were founder members of the Hellenic League in 1953 after winning the Oxfordshire Senior League for two season before that. They went on to win the Division One title of the league in 1961 and 1971.
It was the late 1970s that saw some real glory days. They won the Hellenic Premier in 1978, taking a couple of Oxfordshire Cups around the same time, before working their way up to the Midland Combination. A couple of seasons later in 1981 they won that title, proving to be like a non-league Spurs in winning a title in a year ending in a one. Sadly though this terrific run saw them reach too deeply into their pockets and financial difficulties forced them to drop back into the Oxfordshire leagues rather than go out of business.
Chipping Norton Town are an historic and popular club that has been a significant part of Chipping Norton, with many town inhabitants associated, and connected either directly or indirectly through family and friends to the club over the years.
Recent years has seen them work their way back up in the Witney & District Football Association Leagues. During the season of 2015/2016 the 1st Team came 7th in Premier Division and the Reserve Team came 9th in the Second Division after promotion and a cup final the previous year
