About the Club
Hatfield Football Club was founded in 1886 by members of Hatfield Cricket Club and played their matches in Lord Salisbury's Hatfield Park.
In the 1906/07 season Hatfield FC merged with Dagmar House School Old Boys to form Hatfield United FC. The merger was driven by there being only one pitch available, namely Showfield, later known as Stonecross Road, as the other was taken up by the extension of the town cemetery.
The club began their league campaigns in the Mid Herts League in the 1890s and then moved to the Herts County League. In the 1920s there was another merger, this time with Hatfield Cricket and Athletic Clubs to form Hatfield United Athletic Club.
Moving up to the senior amateur Spartan League, their first season was cut short by the outbreak of war and they managed to complete only one fixture. The club reformed after the war and three years later the merger with the cricket section was undone with the cricketers returning to Hatfield Park and the football section continuing to compete in the Spartan League as Hatfield Town FC.
After several seasons they were not re-elected and moved to the Parthenon and London League before entering the Metropolitan League in the mid 1960s as a semi-professional club with a number of permit players on their books. In the late 1970s when, once again, finances were inadequate the limited company was wound up in the High Court.
The football club continued to play at Stonecross Road until 1980 when the land was sold for housing, forcing a move to Angerland Common until 1984 when the club folded due to lack of finances and a committee to run the club.
Reforming in 1989 Hatfield Town played on the council run Roe Hill Playing Fields pitch and entered the Herts Senior County League where they won three divisional championships in successive seasons. Promotion to the South Midlands League prompted a move to Gosling Sports Park in neighbouring Welwyn Garden City before yet another collapse into dissolution in 1996.
The club reformed in 1999 re-joining the Herts Senior County League where they are today, playing alongside their Spartan South Midlands League landlords, Welwyn Garden City FC at Herns Way in Welwyn Garden City after a season and a half at Harpenden Town's Rothamsted Park, whilst their Reserve Team continue to play at Birchwood Leisure Park in Hatfield.
Ahead of the 2007/08 season and with a change in management personnel, the club experienced in influx of players and hence a third team was registered that will play their home games at Roe Hill Playing Fields.
The end of the 2007/08 season saw the club promoted back into the Spartan South Midlands League after winning both the Herts Senior County Premier Division and the Reserve Division One. What was the A Team for the 2007/08 campaign went on to become a splinter group who aim to keep the Hatfield flag flying in the Herts Senior County League.
Hatfield Town are an ambitious club whose plans for the future include the building of their own ground and for advancement within the pyramid.