On Saturday 16 August Oldland travel to The Greenfleets Stadium to face Aylesbury Vale Dynamos in an FA Cup Preliminary Qualifying Round fixture.
The match is being played at The Greenfleets Stadium, Haywood Way, Aylesbury HP19 9WZ making this a round trip of just under 200 miles something which might phase other teams but as this week's Jewson League Premier Division league fixture away to Torpoint is 300 miles it will be a breeze !
Our opponents are members of the Spartan South Midlands League. The club was established in the 1930s as a works team for the Negretti and Zambra company in the King's Cross area of London. When the company relocated to the Stocklake Industrial Estate in Aylesbury in 1949, facilities were set up for the sports teams and the club joined the Aylesbury & District League in 1954. The company later sold the sports facilities to the council, at which point the club was renamed Stocklake. After several successful years in the Aylesbury & District League, the club moved up to the Wycombe & District League, where they remained until being promoted to Division One of the Chiltonian League in 1988.
They finished as runners-up in 1989–90, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Their first season in the Premier Division saw them take the runners-up position, a feat they repeated in 1996–97. In the summer of 2000 the league merged into the Hellenic League but Stocklake chose to join Division One of the Spartan South Midlands League instead and merged with Belgrave F.C. being renamed again, this time becoming Haywood United.
The 2001–02 season saw them finish as runners-up in a renamed Division Two, after winning the Division One title in 2003–04, they were promoted to the Premier Division. Their first season as Aylesbury saw them win the Premier Division title, earning promotion to the Southern League, as well as winning the League Cup. Aylesbury finished second from bottom l in 2018–19 and were relegated to the Premier Division of the Spartan South Midlands League; the club then merged with Bedgrove Dynamos and were renamed Aylesbury Vale Dynamos.
Aylesbury Vale FC
Best FA Cup performance: Second qualifying round, 2008–09 (replay)
Best FA Vase performance: Third round, 2008–09[
Aylesbury FC
Best FA Cup performance: Fourth qualifying round, 2009–10
Best FA Trophy performance: First qualifying round, 2010–11 (replay), 2011–12 (replay), 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 (replay), 2017–18 (replay)
Best FA Vase performance: First qualifying round, 2009–10
Aylesbury Vale Dynamos FC
Best FA Cup performance: First qualifying round, 2024–25
Best FA Vase performance: First round, 2019–20, 2022–23