ALTON TOWN - CLUB HISTORY

The present Club was formed in 1990 when Alton's two Senior Clubs, Alton Town and Bass Alton, amalgamated. Alton Town had been fantastically successful, winning everything in Hampshire in the period from 1948-1958 including Hampshire Leagues Divisions 3,2 & 1(1948.1949 & 1958), the Hampshire Intermediate Cup in 1949, the Russell Cotes Cup also in 1949 and the Hampshire Senior Cup in 1958.

Alton Town first joined the Hampshire League in 1947 and won Division 3 East in their first season. More success followed with the Division 2 title the following season together with the Russell Cotes Cup and Hampshire Intermediate Cup. Although they dropped to Division 2 for one season in 1954/55, they bounced back immediately and went on to win both the Division One Championship and Hampshire Senior Cup in 1957/58. They stayed in Division One until they left in 1973 to join the Athenian League Division Two which they won in the first year. After an initial period of success in that League the Club found itself unable to compete and dropped down to the Combined Counties League before returning to the Hampshire League in 1984, starting at the bottom in Division Three. They found themselves in Divison Two in 1986/87 after winning the third Division title for the third time.

Bass Alton started life as Courage & Company (Alton) FC and joined the Hampshire League in 1928/29. The following year they were in Division two and then won promotion to Division One where they stayed until being relegated to Division two in 1938/39, just before the Club disbanded for the War.

Courage rejoined the North Hants Division briefly in 1954/55 before begining their longest spell in the County League in 1972/73 when they entered Division Four. Promoted to Division Three in 1975, they only lasted two years before dropping to Division Four again. In 1979/80 the Club changed its name to Bass Alton FC and its fortunes changed with the name as they won promotion in successive years to Division Three in 1979/80, to Division Two in 1980/81 and to division One, as Division two runners-up, at the end of the 1982/83 season after a 45 year absence.

Since the amalgamation the Club has played in the Hampshire League and achieved promotion to the Wessex League by topping the Premier Division in 2002.

Since joining the Wessex League the club has always played in the top division. In 2007/8 the first team finished 14th in the Premier Division whilst the reserves were runners up in Combination 2.