The club was founded in 1950 and has been
known previously known as Windscale United
and Windscale Rovers.
Home colours are Navy blue shirts,shorts
and socks, while Away colours are White shirts
red shorts and socks.
The team plays its home games at The Falcon
club, Smithfield Egremont CA22 2QN
and the main sponsors are Bleasdales Solicitors
and Cumbrian Windows.
Information supplied by Joe Shepherd.
Windscale have played in a number of leagues
before joining the Wearside League - The
Derwent Valley League, The West Cumberland
league, The Furness Premier League. The club’s reserve team play
in the Tesco Cumberland County League.
Honours won are as follows: the Furness Senior
Cup 1986, the Glaxo cup 1987, the Benevolent
Cup 1988 and 1989, the Ulverston Hospital
Cup 1990, the Monkwearmouth Charity Cup 1998,
the Cumberland County Cup 1998, and the Wearside
League Cup 1999. In 2002 the club was awarded Community
Charter Standard status.
As stated above, Windscale AFC began life
in 1950, being founded by factory workers
at Windscale nuclear power plant (now Sellafield).
The team mainly played ‘friendlies’
until entering the Derwent Valley League,
then, in the 60s, progressing into the West
Cumberland League. At one time there
were two separate Windscale teams, hence
United and Rovers, but later on these merged
into the one club. Looking to play
a better standard of football, the club next
moved into the Furness Premier League in
the early 80s and they enjoyed many cup successes,
as well as being runners-up in the league
and reaching several cup finals.
Again as a progression, Windscale were accepted
into the Wearside League Division 2 in 1990
and reached two cup finals in the first season,
unfortunately losing both. These were the 2nd Division Cup, to Blackhall Colliery 2-4,
and the prestigious League cup against Dunston
Federation (now of the Northern League) 0-2.
Promotion in a reshuffle of the leagues after
finishing third the following season came
too soon for Windscale and they finished
bottom in their first League One campaign,
but again a reshuffle saw them retain Division
1 status and within four years the club were
winning cup competitions and regularly finishing
in the top six. Season 1999-2000 saw Windscale
finish 3rd, the highest so far, and although the following
years have seen some lean times, current
manager Howard Kirkbride is confident he
can take the team to the right end of the
table once again.
Manager Howard Kirkbride and Secretary
Joe Shepherd have both scored in all Windscale’s
19 consecutive seasons in the Wearside
League, while current assistant coach Billy
Dixon became the oldest scorer when he tapped
in at Stokesley three seasons ago aged 50.
However, current chairman Geoff Turrell is
the oldest player to turn out for the club
in the Wearside League, a feat he achieved
against Wolviston, aged 55.
Despite lowly finishes in the league recently,
recent seasons have still seen the club win
silverware. The 2008/09 season brought
the Fair Play Trophy to the club, whilst
in the previous season Joe Shepherd was awarded
‘Secretary of the Year’ by the
league.
Along with the two senior men’s teams
the club also have a senior women’s
team playing in the North West Women’s
Regional League Premier Division, as
well as junior teams from U8s through to
U18s, including Girls U12s, 14s and 16s all
playing in the West Cumbria Youth League
