Hebburn Town Football Club, nicknamed “The Hornets,” is a non-league football club based in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear.
Established in 1912, they currently compete in the Pitching In Northern Premier League Premier Division, which is part of the seventh tier of English football. The team calls Hebburn Sports Ground their home ground.
Early in the twentieth century, the club emerged from Alphonse Reyrolle’s engineering works, beginning life in the Jarrow and District Junior League. It flourished in the 1930s, captured the Durham Challenge Cup in 1943, spent a wartime season in the North Eastern League and then many years in the Northern Combination, returning briefly to the North Eastern League in 1959-60, where it finished last with eight points.
Twenty-eight seasons in the Wearside League brought a title in 1966 and the Monkwearmouth Cup two years later. After the parent company collapsed, the club rebranded as Hebburn in 1988, upgraded its ground and entered the Northern League in August 1989, winning promotion and the Durham Challenge Cup in 1992 before ground-grading relegations and a Craven Cup triumph in 2000.
In 2011-12 Hebburn reached the FA Cup fourth qualifying round and gained promotion to Northern League Division One, but an exodus caused relegation. Promotions in 2018 and 2021 lifted the side to tier eight, and an FA Vase run ended with a Wembley win over Consett on 3 May 2021. Under Daniel Moore they finished third in 2022-23, lost the play-offs yet reclaimed the Durham Challenge Cup.