Month: July 2020

We are offering eight buisnesses the chance to win shirt sponsorship for the forthcoming season. Four lucky businesses will get their logo’s on the front of our shirts, and four will get a logo on our sleeve. To be in with a chance to win one of these sponsorship’s you need to buy at least… Continue reading Win a Sponsorship

A brief history up to 1959 This piece has been re-produced from the A.F.A. Record – February 1959 Founded in 1933, Olympic AFC, as the club was then called, grew so rapidly that when the war came, no fewer than six teams were being fielded, four in A.F.A. football and two in the local minor… Continue reading A brief history up to 1959

First year in the Southern Amateur League In the 1958/59 season Southgate Olympic played their first season in the Southern Amateur league, moving to that league from the Southern Olympian League. They finished two points behind old rivals Broomfield in the Senior Division 3, to become runners-up. The reserves went one better winning the Reserve… Continue reading Blast from the Past – 1958/59

Fifty Years and Counting   Two long standing members of the club, Arthur Cornish and Roger Philo, have reached fifty years with the club an amazing achievement.   Current chairman Arthur Cornish, who was on the books at West Ham and Watford before joining Southgate Olympic, made his debut in 1970 against Old Stationers and… Continue reading Fifty Years and Counting