Fairford Town Football Club

Hello and welcome to the official SNAP Sponsorship profile of Fairford Town FC.

We're delighted to announce that we’ve now partnered with SNAP Sponsorship and we’re looking for sponsors who are excited about affiliating themselves with a successful grassroots football club in Fairford, Gloucestershire. We’re a community club with a long history and big ambitions.

We strive to craft a partnership with our sponsors that meets their specific objectives, whether that be community gifting, social responsibility (CSR), direct sales or brand building.

Whatever your motivation, find out more below. Thank you for visiting our profile.
 

Why Sponsor Us?

In order to survive and to continually improve our facilities for the local community, the club relies on sponsorship from local businesses – and this is where we would like to work alongside you.

Increased brand awareness, raising the profile of your business in our community

Do you want to raise the profile of your business or organisation? Fairford Town FC is keen to develop new relationships with businesses who can offer beneficial products and services to our local community.

Sponsoring us will raise the profile of your business and benefit you in the following ways: 

• Exposure to hundreds in the local area and players and spectators from visiting teams
• Extended publicity through Swindon Town Women who share our ground
• Publicity in local papers 
• Increased brand awareness on our website and Twitter
• Pre-match hospitality and photos with our full match sponsorship package
• Company details included in matchday programme with selected sponsor packages
• Choose a Man of the Match with a pitch side presentation with match sponsor package
• Company details on our in-house videos and matchday highlights (media sponsors)
• Satisfaction from giving back to the community 
• You’re supporting a much-needed local amenity which brings enjoyment to many. 

We take pride in listening to our partners’ needs and design solutions that create long term sustainable relationships, delivering both quality of service and value for money. Whether a stadium sponsor, a shirt sponsor or a match day sponsor; we’re always looking to form a true partnership where sponsors become part of the Fairford Town experience. In doing so, we work to deliver a rich fan and sponsor experience that goes beyond the 90 minutes of football, whilst enhancing fan engagement and providing a unique opportunity.

Engage with our many members and capitalise on our strong Twitter following

Fairford Town FC is in the heart of community with links to a large audience base surrounding the club. In addition to our sizeable membership and extensive supporter network, Fairford Town FC understands the importance and power of the internet and social media. We therefore use our website and Twitter to regularly and consistently promote our club, fixtures and sponsors.

We’re an extremely social club who pride themselves on being warm, friendly and family-orientated. We regularly host events throughout the year and we’d be happy to host a sponsored networking event if desired.

Fairford Town FC has an array of sponsorship opportunities which can be tailored to meet your objectives. Through sponsorship, our club will promote your company in a wide variety of ways enriching the profile of your business in our community. 

Get involved in grassroots sport and remove economic barriers making sport affordable, accessible and inclusive for all

Sponsorship of a grassroots sport delivers a much higher return on investment than traditional advertising. This is because sponsorship allows your business to become directly involved in activities that are highly valued by local consumers.

Fairford Town FC is proud of its strong bonds with the community and enjoys supporting and engaging with local initiatives. Consumers are known to form strong positive associations with sponsors who support the development of grassroots sport and also contribute to the local area and by directly supporting us, you’re helping to remove economic barriers — making football affordable, accessible and inclusive for all in the community.

Contact us now to find out more and explore what Fairford Town FC can offer you!

The Club Today

Welcome to Fairford Town Football Club. We’re a Step 5, ambitious football club based in Fairford in Gloucestershire with a professional ‘can do’ attitude. We’re affiliated to the Gloucestershire County Football Association and we’re currently members of the Hellenic League Premier Division and play at Cinder Lane.

Throughout the club, Fairford Town FC’s ideals reflect sports core values of Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline and Sportsmanship and the club is renowned for being friendly and for providing good quality sport for all.

Whilst we are ambitious, we also have a strong family ethos, derived from a commitment to youth sport. We’re proud of our youth academy which was formed in 2019 and provides coaching and development to players from ages 12 to 18. Bridging the gap between grassroots and professional academy football it enables clubs to develop their own local players who can realistically progress all the way to their first team. We've also recently been hosting some girls football sessions via our academy but have no formal team at the moment.

We also have a modern clubhouse which features two bars, a function hall, a skittle alley, home and away changing rooms, match and female officials room and a boardroom for the use of visiting officials at half-time and we regularly host social events for those in our community.

All this is underwritten by a diverse sponsor base, at a variety of different levels, which aids the club’s financial stability and adds value to our audience.
 

History of Our Club

Fairford Town Football Club was formed in 1891 and for many years played in the Cirencester & District League against local teams with varying degrees of success.

After the second world war the club joined the Swindon & District League, winning the Premier Division in both 1964/65 and 1968/69, also winning the Advertiser Cup in the same years, and in 1962/63 won the Gloucestershire Junior Cup.

Success in the Swindon & District League was followed by election to the Hellenic League in 1970, only missing promotion from the first division on goal average at the first attempt, the club were also beaten finalists in that year’s division one Challenge Cup.

The following year, 1971/72 saw Fairford win the Hellenic first division and division one Challenge Shield, whilst the reserve side won the Gloucestershire County Minor Cup, the Advertiser Cup and finished runners-up in the Swindon & District Division One.

The successful run continued and Town were the beaten finalists of 1972/73 in the Premier Division Cup, only to be relegated back to Division One in 1973/74.

Fairford Town were again promoted in 1975/76 and steady progress led to the Premier Division Runners-up in 1978/79 and 1979/80, also winning the Premier Division Cup in 1978/79.

The Club were winners of the Gloucestershire Challenge Trophy in 1979/80 and 1998/99 and Runners-up in 1982/83 and 1994/95.

The most recent league success has been Premier Division Runners-up in season 1994/95 following a similar position in Season 1990/91. The Club has also achieved numerous wins in the Arthur Shipway Cup and Fairford Hospital Cup.

The 2016/17 season saw the club secure a return to the Uhlsport Hellenic Premier Division after a five-year absence, winning the Division One West title with 75 points.

In recent years the club has grown on and off the pitch. The first team are now established and challenging in the Uhlsport Hellenic Premier Division with a Reserves side also competing in Hellenic Division 2 South. 2020 also saw the creation of Fairford Town Academy with teams running from under 14s through to under 16s. We aim to place the football club within the heart of the local community and are keen to continue to grow and achieve our goal of promotion to the Southern Football League for the first time in the club’s history.
 

Aspirations

With membership and crowd attendances rising, we have ambitious plans to continue to develop the infrastructure at the club and grow our teams.

Naturally, we want to support our sponsors and build them in to our club on a strategic level — allowing all of our partners to benefit from our ever-improving facilities, expanding audience and our community involvement.