Dorking FC, the Chicks, is a football club founded in Mid-Surrey in 1880.
It remains the oldest senior club in the county, but folded in 2017.
Don't panic, a club now known as Dorking Wanderers FC was set up by Marc White, with some mates in 1999, taking the club from the now defunct Crawley and District League to the National League South in 11 promotions...a British Record. Dorking Wanderers won the Isthmian Premier Division in 2018-19 by 22 clear points and now performing in the National League South, lying 5th alongside such established clubs as Bath City, Slough Town and Wealdstone.
On Saturday they beat Maidstone Utd away 2-3 in front of over 1700.
Playing originally in the Mid Surrey League, the Dorking FC club was a founding member of the Surrey County Senior League in 1922. In 1956 they began to play at Meadowbank Park (below) and joined the Athenian League merging with Guildford City in 1974 and became Guildford and Dorking United. This lasted two years, the club collapsed, became Dorking Town FC in 1977 and played in the Surrey Senior League from 1977. In 1983 they joined the Isthmian League as Dorking FC and had various successes and failures in the Combined Counties League, closing in 2017 after the usual financial and social turmoil facing Non-League clubs, merging with Dorking Wanderers.
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