Buckland Athletic Football Club is a football club based in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. They are currently members of the and play at Homers Heath.
The club was established in 1977 as a youth team and joined the Torbay Pioneer League. After winning the Devon Youth Cup, the club entered senior football, joining Division Three of the Devon & Exeter League in 1987. They won the division at the first attempt, and were promoted to Division Two. They were promoted again the following season, moving up to Division One.
A fourth-place finish in Division One in 1992âÂÂ93 saw Buckland promoted to the Premier Division. They went on to win the Premier Division title and Football Express Cup in 1994âÂÂ95, and the East Devon Senior Cup the following season. The club won the Premier Division Cup in 1997âÂÂ98, and after retaining it the following season, they were Premier Division champions again in 1999âÂÂ2000.
After winning their second Premier Division title, Buckland moved up to the Devon County League, and were runners-up in their first season. In 2007 the league merged with the South Western League to form the South West Peninsula League, with Buckland placed in the Premier Division. They were Premier Division champions in 2009âÂÂ10 and retained the title the following season. After finishing as Premier Division runners-up in 2011âÂÂ12, the club were promoted to the Premier Division of the Western League. In 2014âÂÂ15 they were Western League runners-up. They finished fifth in the Premier Division in 2024âÂÂ25, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, in which they lost 3âÂÂ1 to Clevedon Town in the semi-finals.
The club initially played at Sandringham Park, before moving to Decoy during the 1990âÂÂ91 season. Within two years they moved to Homers Lane. In 2005 the club relocated to their current Homers Heath ground on Kingkerswell Road. The ground was officially opened on 13 July by Steve Perryman prior to a friendly match against Plymouth Argyle.