Mulbarton Wanderers F.C.
Association football club in England
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Mulbarton Wanderers Football Club is a football club based in Mulbarton, Norfolk. The men's first team are currently members in the Isthmian League North Division and play at Mulberry Park.
| Full name | Mulbarton Wanderers Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1993 | ||
| Ground | Mulberry Park | ||
| Chair | Graham Bunting | ||
| Managers | Ben Thompson & Danny Self | ||
| League | Isthmian League North Division | ||
| 2025–26 | Eastern Counties League Premier Division, 1st of 18 (promoted) | ||
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History
The football club was established in 1993 when the youth team of Mulbarton United, a now defunct Anglian Combination side, broke away to form their own youth team.[1] They merged with the Harford Belles girls team in 2001 and establish in the Central and South Norfolk League, a men's senior team, in Division Four.[2] The club won promotion in their first season, continued to rise through the league, and beginning in 2007–08 season reached Division One.[2] They were promoted to the Anglian Combination Division Six in 2009, and achieved six successive promotions, reaching the Premier Division in 2015.[3][2] After finishing second in 2018, the club successfully applied to join the Eastern Counties Football League, entering in Division One North for 2018–19.[4]
Their debut season in the Eastern Counties League saw the club compete in the FA Vase for the first time, and in the following season saw the club enter the FA Cup for the first time, losing to Boston Town in the extra preliminary round.[3] In 2021 the club were promoted to the Premier Division based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. The 2025–26 season saw the club promoted to step 4 for the first time as Premier Division champions,[5] also winning the League Challenge Cup final and the Norfolk Senior Cup.[6]
Other teams
In addition to the men's first team, the club is also home to two women's teams (playing in the Eastern Region Women's Football League and Norfolk Women and Girls Football League), a men's reserve team playing in the Anglian Combination, 2x under 18 teams playing in the Thurlow Nunn Youth League and 27 junior teams (2 in the Eastern Junior Alliance, 19 in the Norfolk Combined Youth Football League and 6 in the Norfolk Women and Girls Football League). It also runs a PAN disability comets team, a Wildcats programme and U5 and U6 programmes.
Ground
Honours
- Eastern Counties Football League
- Premier Division champions 2025–26
- League Challenge Cup winners 2025–26
- Anglian Combination[3]
- Division One champions 2014–15
- Division Four champions 2011–12
- Division Five champions 2010–11
- Mummery Cup[8]
- Winners 2016–17
- Cyril Ballyn Cup[9]
- Winners 2012–13
- Norfolk Senior Cup
- Winners 2021–22
- Youth Teams
- U13s 4sports trophy winners 2023-24