Jarrow Football Club is a football club based in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England. They are currently members of the .
The original Jarrow club was formed in 1894 after Jarrow Rangers folded; a year after it was disbanded in 1902, a new Jarrow F.C. emerged, which lasted until 1909. The current club is a continuation of a club originally known as Jarrow Croft Villa.
In 1900âÂÂ01, under the simpler name Jarrow Croft, the club won the South Shields Junior League in contentious circumstances, with rival club Regent Athletic also laying claim to the title; after the league resolved the matter in favour of Jarrow Croft, a Regent Athletic member, Thomas McClasham, beat up the league secretary, and destroyed his hat, for which he was fined ã2. The club won the Northern Amateur League in 1903âÂÂ04 having only lost a single match, before winning the Newcastle Amateur League in 1909âÂÂ10. In 1910âÂÂ11 it joined the North Eastern League.
The club was renamed Jarrow in 1912, and for the first two years of World War I they played in the North Eastern LeagueâÂÂTyneside Combination. After the war the club were renamed Palmers Jarrow, before reverting to simply Jarrow in March 1920. They finished bottom of the North Eastern League in 1923âÂÂ24, and moved to Campbell Park in Hebburn the following season; plans to rename themselves Jarrow and Hebburn were dropped after the Durham FA refused permission. In 1930âÂÂ31 the club reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1âÂÂ0 at Third Division North club Crewe Alexandra.
Jarrow won the Durham Challenge Cup in 1932âÂÂ33, beating Spennymoor United 2âÂÂ1 in the final. They retained the trophy the following season with a 1âÂÂ0 win over Cockfield in the final and were also North Eastern League runners-up. The loss of their Campbell Park ground to the army in March 1939 led to the club resigning from the league at the end of the 1938âÂÂ39 season. After World War II Jarrow rejoined the Northern Alliance, but they withdrew from the league during the 1948âÂÂ49 season after 23 matches. They dropped into the Northern Combination and subsequently disappeared.
The club was reformed in 1980. They joined Division Two of the Wearside League in 1991 and a third-place finish in 1992âÂÂ93 saw them promoted to Division One. However, they finished bottom of Division One the following season and were relegated back to Division Two. The league was reduced to a single division in 1996 and the club finished bottom of the league in 1996âÂÂ97. A second division was readded in 1998 and Jarrow finished bottom of Division One in 1999âÂÂ2000, but avoided relegation as the league was reduced to a single division again. In 2007âÂÂ08 Jarrow were Wearside League runners-up. They won the league in 2016âÂÂ17, earning promotion to Division Two of the Northern League.
The original Jarrow initially played at a cycle track at Monkton, which had been opened by Jarrow Amateur Bicycling Club in 1891. The ground became known as the Monkton Stadium and was taken over by the Jarrow Cycling, Athletic and Football Ground Company Limited in 1896. Jarrow Croft played at Simonside, before moving to Monkton in 1909, and Jarrow Caledonian's Curlew Road ground in 1913. In the early 1920s the club built a new 15,000-capacity ground in nearby Hebburn named Campbell Park, with the first match played there on 1 September 1924, a 1âÂÂ1 draw with Newcastle United. In 1939 the ground was commandeered by the army for conversion into a drill hall for the 87th Anti-Aircraft Regiment. After the war the club returned to the Monkston Stadium.