Old Cranleighan Football Club
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The Old Cranleighan Football Club was started in 1882, the first full-time sporting club formed by the OCs. From then until 1914 the OCFC fielded between two and three full-time teams every winter, playing in London old boys leagues as well as entering the Surrey Cup, FA Cup and Arthur Dunn Cup. The base for much of that time was the Private Banks Sports Ground at Catford Bridge.
The club, like most others, ceased at the outbreak of World War One, and with the School switching to rugby union in 1916, the OCFC did not reform after the war, although a number of players did make the switch to the newly-formed OC Rugby Football Club in 1919. Football was discouraged at Cranleigh through to the late 1980s, but since then it has grown as an alternative to hockey for the Upper VIth in the Lent term. There was a revival of the club in the late 1990s and for a few seasons regular Sunday friendlies took place on the astro at the OC Club.
In 2024 the club was restarted by Max Richards and the side was entered into the Arthurian League, playing out of the OC base at Thames Ditton. In February 2025 the OCs won the inaugural Heron Cup, an annual contest to be played between the OCs and the School.