Guernsey FC: A Channel Island Story

Imagine your closest away game being 115 miles away, having to fly to every away game, and then having to pay for every team to fly to you throughout the season.

Welcome to Guernsey, in the Channel between England and France just over 100 miles off the English coast.

Guernsey Football Club play in the centre of the Island, in the Isthmian South Central division, the eighth tier of English football. As a result, they have to play clubs from in and around London, their closest game and oddly their longest journey is Moneyfields FC in Portsmouth, which is 115 miles away as the crow flies.

The reason for them being in this league is because of travel, the club has to fly into Heathrow for every away game which means that they have been placed in whichever league a team near Heathrow Airport would be put into.

They currently lie 20th in their Division down near the bottom of the 22 teams in the division, with threats of going down the The Combined Counties league along with other Chanel Island club Jersey FC.

These two clubs do have a Vase competition where they play each other and also add in the even smaller island of Alderney. This competition is mainly dominated by the two bigger islands with Jersey being the current holders and historically the most successful of the three with 56 titles since its inception in 1905. However Alderney have one the competition once since the competition formed, this was in 1920 where they beat Guernsey 1-0.

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