{"id":35831,"date":"2026-08-30T23:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35831"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T22:17:56","slug":"abingdon-united-celebrates-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35831","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon United celebrates 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026083002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon United Football Club celebrated its 80th anniversary today, bringing together football, music, memorabilia and family entertainment at the Northcourt ground.<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s story began in 1946, after the end of the Second World War, when a group of ex-servicemen established a new football club in Abingdon. Abingdon United entered the North Berks League Division One for the 1946\u201347 season.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026083001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn the pitch, Abingdon United Ladies were in action against Keynsham Town in an match which United won 3\u20132.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026083010.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a funfair and food van in one corner of the ground and an inflatable room inside.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the clubhouse, an exhibition brought together old Abingdon United memorabilia, newspaper cuttings and football programmes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026083017.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMusic was also part of the celebrations, with local band <em>Hazey Rock<\/em> playing in the Northcourt Bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon United Football Club celebrated its 80th anniversary today, bringing together football, music, memorabilia and family entertainment at the Northcourt ground. The club&#8217;s story began in 1946, after the end of the Second World War, when a group of ex-servicemen established a new football club in Abingdon. Abingdon United entered the North Berks League Division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}