Portishead Town Football Club, nicknamed “The Posset,” is a non-league football club based in Portishead, Somerset.
Established in 1912, they currently compete in the Pitching In Southern Football League Division One South, which is part of the eighth tier of English football. The team calls Bristol Road their home ground.
Based in Portishead, North Somerset, the club fields a men’s first team in the Southern League Division One South and a women’s first team in the FA Women’s National League Division One South West. Nearly 900 junior players aged five to sixteen train under its umbrella after a merger of local youth sides, and the organisation is affiliated to the Somerset County FA.
After adopting its present name in 1948, the club entered the Somerset County League in 1975. Four Premier Division titles between 1993-94 and 1997-98 and four consecutive runner-up finishes from 2001-02 to 2004-05 preceded promotion to the Western League. It placed in the top half on debut and finished second to Truro City in 2006-07, yet inadequate floodlighting halted a further rise.
Reserves play in Somerset County League Division One, with A, B and Colts teams in the Weston-super-Mare & District League. Senior honours include the Western League Division One title (2023-24); Somerset County League championships in 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1997-98; Somerset Senior Cups in 1996-97 and 2007-08; the Somerset Hospital Cup in 2009; Weston-super-Mare League Division 1 in 2016; and Attwell Memorial Shield wins in 2009 and 2015.