Thame United.

The Club finished runners up in both 1988-89 and 1989-90 before eventually winning the title in 1990-91. The Club received the green light to join the Diadora League in 1991/92.

The first season was relatively successful finishing in 8th place and also reaching the 2nd preliminary round of the FA Cup before losing to Salisbury. In 1992-93 the Club gained its sought after promotion by finishing runners up to all conquering Aldershot Town as well as beating Banbury United 2-1 in the final of the Oxfordshire Senior Cup to win the Cup for the fifth time.

1993-94 was also a reasonably successful year for the Club, finishing in 6th place in their first season in the Diadora Division Two as well as reaching the last 16 of the FA Vase before falling to Whitehawk by 3-2 in a match that could have gone either way.

1994-95 was perhaps the best year in the Club’s history. The new facilities transformed Windmill Road into one of the top grounds in the Diadora League and on the field the Club went from strength to strength, winning the Division 2 Championship with 93 points - an 11 point margin.

In 1995/96 we reached the 3rd Round Qualifying in the FA Cup and the FA Trophy. In the league we finished a creditable 13th in our first ever season in the Isthmian League Division One. In the Oxfordshire Senior Cup we progressed to the final to play Oxford City but lost 2-1.

During June of 1997 Andy Sinnott was appointed as first team manager. Andy had a very difficult 1997/98 season running on a dramatically reduced budget and it was no surprise when we were relegated into Ryman Division Two. However, Andy kept his head up and his spirits high and appointed former Oxford City manager, Alan Thorne as a joint manager.

1998/99 season was totally different - all credit goes to Andy, Alan and all the players for bouncing straight back into Ryman Division One and for also putting together a memorable FA Vase run reaching the semi-finals.

1999/2000 saw the Club come within two points of achieving promotion to the Premier Division and, off the field, the Club erected a further covered stand, new turnstiles and achieved an 'A' grading helping to further their ambitions.

2000/2001 season the team lead the way for most of the season, putting together a club record of 12 consecutive league wins but a slump in form in the latter part of the season saw us finish in 5th place. A 3 - 1 win against Banbury United in the Oxfordshire Senior Cup ensured however that we finished up with some silverware. Joint manager Alan Thorne left in February and the club were delighted to announce Mark West as Andy's assistant player/manager. We finished mid table in 2001/2002 season but for the first time in the Club's history we retained the Oxfordshire Senior Cup after a 4-3 win over North Leigh played at the new Kassam Stadium in front of over a 1,000 spectators.

Mark West, a former Wycombe Wanderers player, was appointed player/manager when Andy left United during the Summer of 2003. In October 2003 the club reached the 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup for the first time in it's history, before being beaten 1-2 by Conference side Farnborough Town. We again finished mid table in 2002/2003, and as a result, were chosen to move from the Ryman League to the newly formed Southern League, Division 1 West. In October 2004 the club again again reached the FA Cup 4th qualifying round, after defeating Weymouth, but were knocked out by Forest Green Rovers.

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