HORDEN C.W.

The club was formed in 1908 as Horden Athletic in the Wearside League and became known as Horden CW in 1928, moving on to the North Eastern League and Midland League before rejoining the Wearside League and moving to the Northern League in 1975. Horden CW found rich pickings in the Wearside League, including 10 league titles plus numerous cups. In 1973 they achieved a treble - including the League plus Shipowners and Monkwearmouth Cup. Horden finished second in the Northern League in 1980 and 1983 and in 1984 beat Blyth in the League Cup final under former Middlesborough coach John Coddington.

There is a great FA cup tradition at Welfare Park, a run to the second round in 1938-1939 when they lost 3-2 at home to Newport County, and five more first round appearances. All brought narrow defeats against Southport (1948, 1-2), Accrington Stanley (1952, 1-2), Wrexham (1953, 0-1), Scunthorpe (1954, 0-1) and Blackpool (1981, 0-1).

In 1985 Horden CW faced the biggest challenge of their history when the club was relegated and around the same time Horden Colliery closed. The impact of the pit closure on the community and the loss of the clubs main sponsor meant that Horden CW found life a struggle, but in the late 1990's under the management of Peter Todd and later Kevin Taylor things started to look up.

This is the eighth season that the club has been under the chairmanship of Hartlepool businessman Norman Stephens.His first two seasons saw the club finish in fourth and sixth place respectively and finally in season 2002-03 the club was promoted to the Northern League as runners up. That same season Horden won the prestigious Durham County Cup after a 1-0 victory against Billingham Synthonia on Easter Monday.

The first season in the first division ended with Horden in 18th place and the following season saw them in a very respectable ninth. In 2005-06 they again struggled to finish in eighteenth place and finally last season, following some disasterous results, the club was again relegated to the second division.

Off the pitch the club has made significant improvements with major alterations under the grandstand. New changing rooms, showers,toilets, referees facilities, club shop and kitchen have all been brought into the twenty first century thanks to a Football Stadia Improvements grant.

There is an Under 18s team competing and for the first time in ages the Supporters Club will be fielding a Sunday team.