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Kingstonian Football Club are an English, semi-professional football club that are playing in the Isthmian League First Division South for the 2007-08 season.
The club plays at Kingsmeadow in Kingston upon Thames - a complex built by the club with local council backing in 1989, after leaving their traditional Richmond Road ground. The club now shares Kingsmeadow with A.F.C. Wimbledon, who in 2004 purchased the lease to the ground from Kingstonian's controversial Chairman at the time, Rajesh Khosla.

History

Kingstonian has a proud tradition dating back to 1885. The club had a lot of success in the 1930s winning the FA Amateur Cup in 1933 along with numerous other competitions in that decade. They also enjoyed a period of great success more recently, winning the Isthmian League in 1998 and the FA Trophy in 1999 and 2000 at Wembley Stadium under renowned manager Geoff Chapple, before beating two Football League clubs - Brentford 3-1 away and Southend United 1-0 away - on their way to the FA Cup fourth round proper in 2001, where they were seconds away from beating Bristol City before succumbing to a late winner in the replay.
   Relegation and financial problems saw a sharp downturn in the club's fortunes between 2001 and 2005. However, in February 2005 Khosla stepped down as Chairman, selling the club to Jimmy Cochrane. While this didn't save Kingstonian from relegation that year, the 2005-06 season saw Kingstonian Football Club revitalised. They only narrowly missed out on the promotion playoffs after an excellent run of form after Christmas and finished their season by beating AFC Wimbledon in the final of the Surrey Senior Cup at Woking FC's Ground by one goal to nil.
   Changes continued during the summer of 2006 with Mark Anderson and Malcolm Winwright taking charge of the club, installing Stuart McIntyre as successor to Ian McDonald in the role of head coach. However McIntyre's stay in the role was brief and unsuccessful with he himself being replaced by Alan Dowson at the start of 2007 after a run of poor results. Under Dowson the club has stabilised and has seen an improvement in its fortunes. The season ended with a 2-1 defeat to Eastbourne Town and coupled with a win by Dulwich Hamlet, Kingstonian ended the season in seventh. Ironically play-off rivals Worthing lost by the same score.
   Due to an administrative oversight Kingstonian were expelled from the 2007-8 Surrey Senior Cup final for fielding an ineligible player. Ironically their opponents Tooting and Mitcham FC, who had lost the match 4-0, were also thrown out of the competition for a similar offence that could only occur in the semi finals and finals of this cup.

Current squad

As of March 9 2008:Managers As of 20 January, 2008.

Name	eriod					in %
Alan Dowson	January 2007–Present	?	?	?	?	?
Stuart McIntyre	May 2006–January 2007	?	?	?	?	?
Ian McDonald	March 2005–May 2006	?	?	?	?	?
Scott Steele	August 2004–March 2005	?	?	?	?	?

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