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Needham Market

Needham Market FC

Kit impression

Founded

1919

Years standing

107

Home ground

Bloomfields, Needham Market

Country

England

The Trophy Cabinet

Southern League
Premier Division Central champions 2023–24
Isthmian League
Division One North champions 2014–15
Eastern Counties League
Premier Division champions 2009–10
League Cup winners 2007–08, 2009–10
Suffolk & Ipswich League
Senior Division champions 1995–96
Division One champions 1952–53
Division Two champions 1946–47
Division Two A champions 1932–33
League Cup winners 1977–78, 1979–80
Suffolk Premier Cup
Winners 2007–08, 2016–17, 2019–20
Suffolk Senior Cup
Winners 1989–90, 2004–05
Suffolk Junior Cup

Nickname: The Marketmen

Reasons To Adopt

Adopting Needham Market means England National League North and South results start mattering to you, a club going since 1919. Not a novelty, a habit.

You get a nickname
Known as The Marketmen. That is your new shorthand, your search term and your excuse for buying a scarf.
Worth the journey
Nearest airport is Norwich Airport (NWI), roughly 61km out. This is not a casual away day, which is precisely why the people who do it take it seriously.
The calendar you inherit
England National League North and South is cold-weather football: mud in February, breath visible under the lights, and a fixture list that rewards anyone who sticks it out. England does not do easy neutrals.
Old enough to matter
1919 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.

Matchday Trip

Ground: Bloomfields, Needham Market. Go in a day early, find the pre-match pub, buy the programme.

Nearest airport

Norwich Airport (NWI)

61 km / 38 miles from the ground

Nearest station

Needham Market railway station

Walkable from the platform

See the whole England National League North and South →

Pulling fixtures and table…

Around the ground

Things To Do Near Bloomfields, Needham Market

Everything within a short walk of the turnstiles: landmarks, museums and the places worth arriving early for.

Landmarks within a 4 km radius

Matchday Shortlist

Opens a map centred on the ground. Two hours before kick-off is the sweet spot.

Route Planner

Getting to Bloomfields, Needham Market