Royal Wootton Bassett Town F.C. - 01793 853880

Royal Wootton Bassett Town Football Club are an English football club based in the town of Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.The club has three senior, one ladies, 19 youth and mini soccer and one girls teams and is affiliated to the Wiltshire County Football Association. The record match attendance was 2,103 versus Swindon Town in July 1991. The club's first team are currently members of the at level nine of the English football league system.HistorySituated in the small market town six miles west of Swindon, Royal Wootton Bassett Town have been playing football since their establishment in November 1882, making the club one of the oldest in the county of Wiltshire. Since 1930, when the club was reformed after a two decade hiatus, Bassett have played at the Gerard Buxton Sports Ground at Rylands Way. The ground was donated by local dignitary Major Gerard Buxton for sporting activities within the town and opened in May 1930. Currently the club is preparing to relocate and their first team play home games at the Corinium Stadium, home of Cirencester Town. The ground at Rylands Way was still used by the club's Reserve, Development and Ladies teams up until early 2014.After one season in the Vale of the White League, Bassett entered the Swindon & District League in 1899. Progress made there culminated in the side entering the Wiltshire County League in 1903-04, a year after the club made the finals of both the Advertiser Cup and the Wiltshire Senior Cup.

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