Glastonbury - Abbey Moor Stadium

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Sunday 19th April 2026

Glastonbury - Westfield
Somerset County D1

 

GLASTONBURY FC - A BRIEF HISTORY

The club was founded in 1890 and was originally called Glastonbury Avalon Rovers. They changed to their current name in 1902. They started in the East Somerset League, winning the title in 1905 & 1912. After the war, they joined the Western League. Following the First World War, Glastonbury joined the Western League Division 2 for three seasons before it was disbanded for a while. The club then played in the Bristol & District and Bristol Suburban Leagues before rejoining the re-established Western League D2 in 1931. Following World War 2, Glastonbury were placed in the Western D1, winning it in 1949, 1951 and 1970, by which time the league was a single division. The league expanded again in 1970, and they would spend three seasons in the renamed Premier Division before relegation to Division 1. Although they finished as runners-up behind Brislington in 1995, they generally struggled.

 In 1999, Glastonbury finished second-bottom and were relegated to the Somerset County Premier. Results did not improve, and they suffered a second successive relegation to Division 1. After another relegation to Division 2 in 2003, they changed their name to Glastonbury Town. In 2005, they finished as runners-up to Frome Town Reserves, earning promotion to Division 1. The following year saw another promotion back to the Premier  Division after a 3rd-place finish. After five seasons here, there were another two relegations between 2012 & 2014 before they found themselves in D2 West. They finished 3rd for an immediate bounce-back and spent four seasons in D1 West before another relegation and a name change to Glastonbury. They spent six seasons in Division 2 with a low of 10th in 2022. In 2024, they earned promotion back to Division 1 after finishing as runners-up to Imperial. They remain there to this day.

Glastonbury played regularly in the FA Cup from 1946 until 1998. Their best progress came in 1950 when they beat Bridgwater Town, Truro City, Barnstaple Town, Street and Dorchester Town before a narrow 2-1 defeat to Football League side Exeter City in the 1st Round. Thirteen seasons have been played in the FA Trophy, but only two wins have been recorded. It was a similar story in the FA Vase, with just three wins from 18 seasons. Local competition wins include two Somerset Junior Cups, two Somerset Professional Cups, three Western Football League Alan Young Cups and two Clark Challenge Cups. They've also won the Somerset Charity Challenge Cup in 1933, the Somerset Senior Cup in 1936, the Somerset Premier Cup in 1947 and the Western League Challenge Cup in 1966. The club play at the Abbey Moor Stadium and has done so since 1982. It has hosted a greyhound track at various points during its history but this has since been demolished.  From 1919 until 1982, they played at Abbey Park where they attracted 3,892 for their 1950 FA Cup game against Exeter City. Before that, they played at Fairfield.

The town of Glastonbury is located in Somerset, around 13 miles from Bristol. It has a population of just under 9,000. The town is less than 1 mile across the River Brue from Street, a village which is now larger than Glastonbury. The ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, first established in 716, remain in the town to this day. The walk up the Tor to the distinctive tower at the summit (the partially restored remains of an old church) is rewarded by vistas of the mid-Somerset area, including the Levels, which are drained marshland. Glastonbury has for centuries been a centre for pilgrimage and spirituality of many kinds. The town supports a wide variety of alternative shops. The Glastonbury Canal, opened in 1834, ran just over 14 miles (23 km) through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge, where it entered the Bristol Channel, but it became uneconomic with the arrival of the railway in the 1840s. The line was closed in 1966 thanks to the Beeching Cuts. The first Glastonbury Festivals were a series of cultural events held in summer, from 1914 to 1926. The festivals were founded by English socialist composer Rutland Boughton and his librettist Lawrence Buckley. The more recent Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, founded in 1970, is now the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in the world. Although it is named after Glastonbury, it is actually held at Worthy Farm between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle, 6 miles from Glastonbury itself. It attracts 170,000 music fans and its founder, Michael Eavis, has been given the freedom of Glastonbury.

MY VISIT

From the game at Nailsea, it was a fairly easy drive home. We'd been in the great company of Martin, the Peterborough Groundhopper, who is just starting out on his voyage of discovery and is at 150 grounds. This was around the amount that I was at when I started around 15 years ago, and had been mainly done with Wycombe. We were back at the hotel by 8.45, and I spent the evening uploading my blogs, having a few ciders whilst we watched TV. I was still wide awake, though, and Colin was too. We tried to get to sleep around 1, but after we laughed at Gemini photoshopping PuffPuff into the Village People, we laughed like drains. I had one more drink and went to bed.

 

I woke up at 6.30 as Colin was already up. It was a case of killing time and getting ready before we left at 8.45. It was around an hour to The Lantokay Wetherspoons in Street, my 506th. I had the usual breakfast muffin with an energy drink, along with black pudding and energy drink. We saw a few other hoppers in there. I managed to get my order in and food at the table before Colin had even placed his order due to app issues. He then went to the bar and placed his order, and the food managed to get to the table before he got back. The service was spot on and the food piping hot. The only downside was the £1.20 parking charge, probably due to the adjacent Clarks Village, which I had zero interest in. From there, we drove to Hecks Farmhouse Cider Barn, which Daniel had spotted yesterday. It was a great place, and I managed to get two litres of Ten Commandments for £6.40. It was ten minutes to the ground from there, where parking was fairly easy and the atmosphere good. Entry was the standard £5; this was the best ground of the hop for me.

Glastonbury were in 13th and looked set for relegation. They had won seven, drawn two and lost seventeen. They had lost five of their last six, going down 4-0 at Combe St Nicholas last week. Westfield were in 9th, having won nine, drawn four and lost eleven. They'd only lost one of their last five, drawing 1-1 at Clutton last week. The young Glastonbury ultras were in fine voice backing their team. It spurred the hosts on to open the scoring on six minutes, a well-worked move ending in a Cam Nicholson header. The attendance was announced as a disappointing 209, just as Glastonbury made it 2-0 through an own goal. It seemed a lot more. A deflected free kick made it 3-0 on 25 minutes. Two quickfire goals made it 5-0. Firstly, a shot from the edge of the area which beat the keeper, all ends up scored by Mortimer. Then, after 35 minutes, the keeper took out a striker, and Phil Wake smashed the spot kick home. The second half was more sedate. Westfield pulled a goal back through a penalty in the 82nd minute. In the last minute, they made it 5-2 with a header.

 

THE GROUND

The ABBEY MOOR STADIUM is a one-sided venue, but it is excellent. The side is mainly covered and has a mixture of sitting and standing. With floodlights, I'd imagine it was step 6 ready. The bar offers a decent range of drinks, and they also sell bacon and egg rolls. The ground has plenty of character and great scenery, and is well worth a visit. Parking was fairly plentiful.