Overview
Maidenhead United Football Club is an association football club, based in Maidenhead, Berkshire. Founded 153 years ago in 1870, the team currently compete in the National League, the 5th tier of English football.
They play their home matches at York Road, and are nicknamed "The Magpies".
The team's playing kit is manufactured by UHLsport.
History
Maidenhead Football Club was founded in October 1870 and has gone through mergers with three other teams and a name change to Maidenhead United.
They were a founding member of the Southern League, but struggled and left in 1902.
They rejoined the Spartan League and in 1945 the Corinthian League where they achieved their first purple patch, winning the league three times and reaching the third round of the FA Amateur Cup in 1960.
In 1963 they joined the Athenian League and then in 1973 the Isthmian League, where they were promoted to the Premier Division in 2000.
They were relegated in 2003 and joined the Conference South, reaching the 1st round proper of the FA Cup in 2007 before being relegated again in 2012.