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Sunday side set for Division One challenge

Friday 17th August 2018

After romping to the Swindon Sunday League Division Two title in their inaugural season, Royal Wootton Bassett Town's Sunday team are set to enjoy the challenge of Division One football in 2018-19.

The team, managed by Danny Groom and featuring numerous players who have played for the club's youth and senior sections previously, lost just once in the league last season while drawing just two games, and finished with an incredible goal difference of +120.

To add to their league crown, they also claimed the Swindon Sunday League Division Two Sportsmanship Prize, proving that they won by playing the game the right way.

However, this coming season is set to be a greater test for the team. But it is one they will relish.

Bassett have been promoted to Division One alongside Croft Junior and Highworth Town, who finished third and fourth in Division Two last season, and Division Three winners AFC Mannington.

And Bassett will start with a double-header against Highworth, facing the Worthians away to begin their league fixtures on 2nd September before hosting them in the cup a week later.

Alongside those three teams, Bassett will be taking on some of the heavyweights in Swindon Sunday League football.

Greyhound have long been one of the league's forces, completing a perfect league season last year, while also reaching the final of the Wiltshire Sunday Cup, a competition they have won on numerous occasions.

Last season's Division One runners-up Penhill United will also again be in the mix, as will FC Walcot who knocked Bassett out of the Knockout Cup in 2017-18 before eventually lifting the trophy.

Coleshill United and Woodlands Edge round out the nine-team division.