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The new Kingstonian set-up started life in the Athenian League, winning the competition in 1923/24 and 1925/26, playing its home matches at a brand new ground in Richmond Road, where they stayed until 1988. In 1929 the K's, joined the Isthmian League as a replacement for the Civil Service FC, and remained in that league until 1998.

April 1933 saw the first taste of real glory as Kingstonian won the FA Amateur Cup, and the following season the Isthmian League, a feat they repeated in 1936/37 and 1997/98.

Down the "Whing"

The K’s looked set for a re-run in 1959/60 as the legendary Johnny Whing headed his side into the lead against Hendon in the final at Wembley Stadium. Two goals in the last three minutes, though, had the FA officials busily changing the red and white ribbons for green and white ones as Hendon won the cup for the first time.

The Kingstonian teams of the early 1960s were arguably as good as those of the 1930s winning the Surrey Senior cup for the 9th time (as Kingstonian) but in 1967, the club's successes dried up. In 1979 the K’s were relegated to Division One, but 6 years later they were back as runners up to Farnborough Town where they stayed until the end of the 1997/98 season when promoted to the Nationwide Conference.

New home

The famous Richmond Road ground, became increasingly dilapidated and vandalised, so the club sold up in January 1988 playing their last game against Bromley. After one and a half season's ground sharing at Hampton's Beveree ground. K's opened their brand new Kingsmeadow Stadium (on the site of the old Norbiton Sports Ground) in August 1989, when Slough Town were the visitors.

At the beginning of the 1997-98 season, the club appointed Geoff Chapple as manager. Over the next few years he took the club to the Isthmian League Premier Division Championship, a place in the Conference and capped it all off by winning the FA Trophy at Wembley not once, but twice including the last FA Trophy Final between the famous Twin Towers, as the K's beat Kettering Town 3-2, the club also reached their highest position of 5th in the Conference.

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2000/2001 was a different story. A tremendous run in the FA Cup ended in a fourth round defeat to Bristol City, but the club stumbled in the league finishing next to bottom and relegated back to the Ryman Football League.

New Spurs

Geoff Chapple left and former Dover Athletic man Bill Williams came in alongside Tottenham Hotspur legend Steve Sedgley. In late 2001 Sedgley stepped up as Gaffer with Kim Harris who was promoted up from reserve team manager.

December 2002 saw the sudden resignation of Sedgley. The club immediately handed Harris the job, and appointed former Woking man Scott Steele as player/coach. The dynamic duo narrowly missed out on the new Conference South following a single goal defeat to Lewes in a Ryman League playoff.

The 2005/06 season saw K's move up the table only to miss out on playoffs on the final day of a season. McDonald was almost immediately succeeded by Stuart McIntyre at the helm as things took a change both on and off the field in the summer, however the coaching staff took a further change with the appointment of Alan Dowson midway through the 2006/07 season.