The name Rovers was adopted in 1893, and the following year the club were founder members of the Mid-Gloucestershire League. Peach, representing the Forest Green area of Nailsworth. Main article: List of Forest Green Rovers F.C. Forest Green were then promoted to League One in 2022 for the first time in their history, following a EFL League Two title win. Investment in the playing squad saw the club compete for promotion into the English Football League, which they achieved with victory in the 2017 National League play-offs, having been beaten in the semi-finals in 2015 and in the 2016 final. Under Vince's chairmanship Forest Green became the world's first vegan football club in 2015, and the New Lawn was installed with numerous eco-friendly innovations. Twice reprieved from relegation from the Conference National due to the demotion of other clubs, the club was transformed following investment from green energy industrialist Dale Vince in 2010. They also reached the 2001 FA Trophy Final, which again they lost. Reaching the 1999 FA Trophy Final, which they lost, they became the first club to reach the finals of both the FA Vase and FA Trophy.
Reverting to the name Forest Green Rovers, the club won successive Southern League Southern Division and Premier Division titles in 1996––98, winning promotion into the Conference. They spent the next 13 years in the Midland Division of the Southern League, and briefly competed under the name Stroud F.C. They became founder members of the Gloucestershire County League in 1968, before they were moved up to the Premier Division of the Hellenic League seven years later.įorest Green won the Hellenic League in the 1981–82 season and lifted the FA Vase after beating Rainworth Miners Welfare in the final at Wembley. Competing in various local league competitions for much of the 20th century, they won a multitude of league titles: the Dursley & District League (1902–03), the Stroud and District Football League (1911––21), the Stroud Premier League (1934–35, 1935––37), the North Gloucestershire League (1920––22), and the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League (1937–38, 1949––51). The team compete in EFL League One, the third tier of the English football league system, and have played their home games at The New Lawn since 2006, when they moved from their original home at The Lawn Ground.įormed in October 1889, the club became founder members of the Mid Gloucestershire League five years later.
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Forest Green Rovers Football Club are a professional football club based in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England.
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