opposition history

Broadbridge Heath Football Club was founded in 1919 by local ex-members of the armed forces who had just returned from the 1914-18 Great War. In the very first season of competitive football, with only 12 registered players, the club won the Horsham and District Championship and Challenge Cup.

In 1970-71 the Horsham League amalgamated with the West Sussex Football League and Heath joined Division Three. Promotion was won to Division Two the following season. In 1978-79 following promotion from the Premier Division of the WSFL, Broadbridge Heath joined the Southern Counties Combination League which at that time was a feeder to the Sussex County Football League. The SCCL amalgamated with the County League in 1983-84 with Heath becoming founder members of Division 3

The club moved to the Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre in Wickhurst Lane in 1987 where we had exclusive use of the stadium pitch, bar and social area. At the end of the 1987-88 season the Club were promoted to senior football in Division 2 for the very first time. Heath remained in senior football for 20 years, with one season (1998-99) in Division One. Despite succeeding on the pitch off the field events deteriorated when the Clubs Landlord decided not to renew the clubs lease to run the bar and social area and for several years with no home and no assets, the Club struggled to survive.