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Woodcote FC and Stoke Row FC amalgamated in 2001 to form the present club, Woodcote / Stoke Row FC which plays its matches at Woodcote Recreation Ground. The club runs two Saturday teams in the Reading Football League with the first team currently play in the top, Senior Division and the reserves in the Second Division. Both clubs were re-formed after the war and Woodcote has remained in existence continuously, while Stoke Row was disbanded for some years but re-formed again in 1994. 

Woodcote and Stoke Row FC have a fine tradition of success in Oxfordshire Competitions having won the Junior Shield in 1974, the Intermediate Cup in 1976 and reaching the Final of the Senior Cup in 1982. We were also semi-finalists in the Senior Cup in 1977 and 1981, losing on both occasions to Oxford City . In the 1982 final at the Whitehouse Ground we lost 3-2 after extra time to Peppard, who at the time were sweeping all before them. In the run up to the final Woodcote defeated four Hellenic League teams, Pressed Steel, Clanfield, Bicester and Thame United. In a controversial move, the OFA expelled Woodcote from the Senior Cup the year after they reached the final, on the grounds that the North Berks League, in which they played, did not merit senior status. The club returned to the Senior Cup in 2003 losing a closely contested game at home to Chipping Norton by 3-2.

Over the years there have also been a number of league successes: Champions of Reading Combination League in 1976 and North Berks League Champions in 1981. More recently the club has risen from Division 4 to the Premier Division of the Reading League with promotions in 1996, 98, 99 and 2003. Our most recent and prehaps big success came in the 2009/10 season, finishing runners up in the Reading Senior League and winning the BTC Senior Cup at the Madjeski Stadium

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