Brief History

Senior football has been played in Tunbridge Wells since 1886 although the Club has had different names. Tunbridge Wells Wanderers might be the best, though un-used, name as eight different grounds have been used around the town. The post war years have, however, seen the town’s team almost entirely based either at the present Culverden Stadium or the Agricultural Show Grounds.
Tunbridge Wells’ first Kent League fixture took place in 1903 with Sittingbourne providing the opposition. Before World War II, the club also competed in the London and Southern Leagues.
In 1954 during the reign of the former England International, Jim Taylor, the club once more progressed to the first round proper of the FA Cup before being comprehensively beaten by Brighton.
The club collapsed and in 1967 it was left to the determination of supporters, who knew that they and their town deserved better, to see that the present day club came into being. They entered the Kent League and by the next year the regeneration of the club was so complete that the team finished as Kent League runners up.
The Wells won the Kent League championship in 1985, and have also won the Kent League Cup on four occasions since the reformation of the club, as well as reaching the last 32 of the FA Vase on no less than five occasions.