Withdean 2000 RIP

[Seagullsgonnagetya]

Withdean 2000 have folded as a senior club just a year after winning the Combined Counties League.

The club will continue to operate as a youth set-up but their senior team has been withdrawn from the league.

After one season of sharing their Withdean Stadium home with Albion in 1999-2000, the club were forced to look elsewhere for somewhere to play home games.

They spent one season groundsharing at Horsham and two with Worthing but the financial burden of renting has hit them hard.

Although they have an agreement to return to Withdean Stadium for the start of next season, that was always unlikely to happen with Albion's proposed move to Falmer apparently no closer and the club have taken the decision that they can no longer continue to tread water at Worthing.

 

[Brovion]

Hmm. Being peripherally involved with the Youth part of Withdean it I'd heard this rumor, there have apparently been umpteen meetings over the last few months each one more rancorous than the last.

Withdean were always going to struggle after Pooky decamped to Worthing, still at least this might placate the parents who were worried that the adult team creamed off funds from the Youth side.

 

[saltash seagull]

always sad when this happens to any football team no matter wat level they play at

 

[Sonic The Hedgehog]

As I understood it, the senior side will start up again once we've gone to Falmer and they can play at Withdean again.