St. Leonards F. C. was a semi-professional football team who played their last season of football in the Sussex County League. Champions 1920-39 The league originally consisted of a single section of 12 clubs and had reached a stable membership of 14 clubs when it was abandoned on the outbreak They played home games at the Firs, Hastings, East Sussex and right next door to Hastings United. Hastings is a town on the coast of East Sussex in England; it is also the administrative centre for the Borough of the same name East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex, and to the Hastings United FC are a semi-professional English football club who currently play in the Isthmian League Premier Division.
St. Leonards started out as a works team in 1971 as STAMCO when the employees of the Sussex Turnery And Moulding Company played friendly matches. The following are the Football (soccer events of the year 1971 throughout the world They rose 14 divisions in 26 years, won the Sussex Senior Cup in 1997 against Saltdean United and joined the Southern League Premier League the following season. Saltdean United FC are a football club based in Saltdean, which is a suburb of Brighton & Hove, England. History Professional football (and Professional sport in general developed more slowly in Southern England than in the north. This most probably the peak of St. Leonards' history but they resigned from the Southern League in 2003 with debts of £25,000 and midway through the 2003-04 season went out of business due to financial problems.