Windsor & Eton Football Club, nicknamed “The Royalists,” is a non-league football club based in Windsor, Berkshire.
Established in 2023, they currently compete in the Cherry Red Records Combined Counties Premier Division North, which is part of the ninth tier of English football. The team calls Stag Meadow their home ground.
The club has played at Stag Meadow since 1911, enjoyed several notable FA Cup runs, and was liquidated in 2011 under heavy debts. It has been re-established as a Community Interest Company, retaining the ground lease and starting again near the base of the league pyramid.
Windsor & Eton Football Club now fields more than 50 teams and over 600 players each weekend, all following the FA Respect code. Its two-day youth tournament for ages seven to fifteen drew roughly 200 teams and 2,000 participants last year. The club also backs local projects such as the Windsor Homeless sleep-out, Cancer Research UK’s Blue Bike Ride and World Mental Health Day, and it maintains links with area schools.
Stag Meadow, owned by the Crown Estate since King George V’s grant, has recorded attendances up to 8,500. The ground has hosted Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Bournemouth, Brentford, Red Star Belgrade, Ipswich Town under Sir Bobby Robson and Bournemouth under Harry Redknapp, while players including Jimmy Greaves, George Cohen, Billy Wright, Peter Osgood and Pat Jennings have featured there.