WELCOME TO HAMFIELDS
Home of Sharpness AFC
Hamfields Leisure, Hamfield Lane, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, GL13 9TN
ABOUT US
Sharpness AFC was founded in the 1900-1901 season. Their home ground was The Port
which they rented from British Waterways for a pepper-corn rate of one pound per year.
During 3 seasons of the mid 20's Sharpness, won the Gloucestershire Northern Senior
League. Although no football was played during both wars, Sharpness players regularly
wrote home to tell of their footballing achievements while they were away on duty.
After the second World War, Sharpness were very much to the fore and played at the
highest standard in Gloucestershire football. The Sharks were very successful and in
the 1962-63 season the 1st XI won the GNSL whilst the 2nd XI won the Stroud League
Div 1 without losing a game, a remarkable achievement.
In 1974 a clubhouse was built and from that point Sharpness went from strength to
strength. They won the Gloucestershire County League and joined the Hellenic Premier
League where they were very successful for a number of years winning the title in
1986. In the 1985-86 season they got to the last 16 in the country playing in the F.A.
Amateur Cup.
It was at this point that British Waterways decide they wanted to develop on the land
where The Port was situated so the club had to leave in 1988 its home of 88 years.
Following World War 1 a Grandstand had been built in memory of those who perished
in the war, alas this was bulldozed when The Sharks had to leave The Port.
For three seasons they played on Forest Greens pitch at a price far too high for that
time. It became impossible to cover the costs of playing at Forest Green so the club had
to revert to playing at a lower level. Reduced to one team now playing in GNSL Div 2
they got promoted in their first season 1991-92.
Since leaving Forest Green, Sharpness had played their games at Berkeley Vale School and now at Hamfields Leisure where have worked tirelessly to improve our facilities so we could once again ply our trade in the County League.
Sharpness 1st XI have retained their position in GNSL Div 1 since 1992, even winning
the league in 2001-2002, 2009-2010 & 2015-2016 for a record 11t time but alas their
facilities prevented them getting promoted.
We finally started the development of new changing rooms at Hamfields in May 2018
completing the project in March 2019 just in time for inspection. The 1st XI still had to
do the business on the field to secure promotion and did just that by winning the league
for a record 12th time in 2018-19 which secured promotion to the Gloucestershire
County league.
During our first season in the County League, we gave a good account of ourselves
lying in 3rd position in the league and making it to the Semi Final of the Les James Cup before the season was curtailed early.
We recently completed our first full season back in the County League, finishing in a respectable 3rd place position.
Full fixture list can be found on the Gloucestershire County League official website.
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Berkeley GL13 9TN, UK