WHO ARE BSAFC?

Budleigh Salterton Association Football club was formed in 1913 and played in the East Devon Football league until 1919 when they were first registered with the Devon and Exeter Football league. The club floated around the town playing a various sites including Moor Lane and Jubilee Park until 1953, the club were constantly having to move and during 1950 wheels were set in motion to find a new and permanent home due to the council wanting Moor Lane for a new housing development.

In February 1953 Budleigh Urban District Council bought four fields at the corner of Barn Lane and Greenway Lane from the then Baron Clinton under the 1937 physical and recreational act for recreational purposes only, a covenant that still remains on the land to this day. The fields were then sectioned in to two plots of land one being a four acre site to be the home of Budleigh Salterton Association Football club and it’s home to called Greenway Lane.

In October 1953 at the start of the football season BSAFC leased the four acres of the land (or ‘there abouts’ as it states on the lease), the lease was very simple. Pay the rent on time and manage and manure the demised premises in a good and husband-like manner and to keep the land constantly in good heart and the turf in sound condition.

Since 1953 the club has come along way, it remains a non profit making business which is run by the committee all of which are volunteers and a number of staff that work the bar and keep the club clean.

The football has gone from strength to strength. Today the club fields six teams from the young and thriving 1st team in the Devon League, 2nds in D&E Div3, Ladies senior team in the Devon Premier League, Vetrans team. The club also runs a 5-13 year old coaching session year round (under floodlights in the winter) open to all.

To join the club is easy and membership is remarkably cheap at £10, great social, great football and good friendly people.