Enfield 1893 F.C.
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| Full name | Enfield 1893 Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The E's |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Ground | Barrows Farm, Harlow |
| Capacity | 3,500 (500 seated) |
| Chairman | Steve Whittington |
| Manager | Neil Blackburn |
| League | Essex Senior League |
| 2015–16 | Essex Senior League, 20th |
Enfield 1893 Football Club (often known as Enfield or the E's) is a football club, formed in June 2007 after Enfield F.C. were forced into liquidation due to their former chairman's debts.
The new club was based in Ware for the 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons, then moved to Broxbourne, Hertfordshire for the 2009–10 season, before returning to the borough of Enfield 11 years after the original club had moved away when they moved to Goldsdown Road in 2010, the former home of Brimsdown Rovers who folded in 2010, In 2014, the club has had to leave the borough again due to the ground falling below the grading required due to a dispute between Goldsdown Sports Ltd the ground's owner and the local council, and now play their matches in Harlow, Essex, sharing with Harlow Town.
The club badge has an Enfield beast on the left and the Saxon crown and three seaxes of the Middlesex coat of arms on the right, all in white on a blue background. At the top is a shortened version of the name of the club in capital letters, 'ENFIELD FC'.
In 1999, Enfield F.C. sold its Southbury Road stadium, and began ground sharing with several nearby clubs. Eventually, the board decided on a long term ground share with Boreham Wood, 10 miles away. Fearing that the club would never return to its home borough and the team would continue to struggle near the foot of the league, a group of fans set up a supporters' trust. The trust hoped to become involved in the running of Enfield F.C. and to bring about the club's return to play in the Borough of Enfield. For months, their attempts to help were rebuffed by chairman Tony Lazarou. In February 2001 a deal to transfer control of the club to the Trust was proposed, but Lazarou stalled on the deal for several months and by the beginning of June nothing had happened.
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