There was a Kimberley Town football club members of the Nottingham
Football league, well before the turn of the century. reports in the
Nottingham Evening Post tell of a match on the 4th December 1886, when
in the Nottinghamshire County Cup. Nottingham Forest beat Kimberley
Town in the Second Round of that competition 7-0. Kimberley Town had
beaten Basford Pioneers in the First round 2-0. Indeed the Stags featured
in the FA Cup from 1892 until 1907/08 and thir most notable achievement
in the competition was to reach the 3rd Quaifying Round, where they
lost to leicester Fosse 3-0.
The earliest note we have of Kimberley YMCA, forerunner of Kimberley
Town , is that they were winners of the Notts Intermediate Cup in 1915.
However they disbanded in 1928 and were not re-formed until 1947/48
when they played friendlies. in their first competition, the Notts Amateur
League, Kimberley were Senior Knockout Cup winners and Division One
runners up in 1954 and then Divsion One Champions in 1955. Their next
venture was to the Central Alliance League Division Two and within a
year they took on the title of Kimberley Town.
The club became Founder members of the Central Midlands Supreme Division,
but after 4 seasons was demoted to the Premier Division for not having
floodlights.
Good fortune in the shape of benefactor Russell Penney brought floodlights
and a social club to the Stag ground.
In May 2001 the club changed hands and a new youth policy was set up
to bring quality players in to the club at reserve and first team level.
This has now been acheived and the club is now going forward.
