St Albans City F.C.

St Albans City Football Club (nicknamed The Saints) is a semi-professional association football team based in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. The club competes in the Isthmian League Premier Division, the seventh level of the English football league system.

It was founded in 1908 and plays its home matches at Clarence Park, about 800 yards from the city centre. The Club coming into the 2000s hit financial difficulties and was 3 days from bankruptcy and extinction until saved by John Gibson with the backing of his own business. Following a non league restructure St Albans City joined the new Conference South for the 2004/05 season having been promoted following a play off and victory against Bedford Town in which Steve Castle scored the winning goal. The Club then following promotion, competed in the Conference Premier (now the National League) during the 2006–07 season under the guidance of the then chairman John Gibson with Manager Colin Lippiat, but was relegated back to the Conference South after one season and subsequently suffered a further relegation in 2010–11, before returning to the sixth tier in 2013–14 after beating Chesham United 3–1 in the play-off final.