Portals Athletic were a works football team based between the north Hampshire towns of Overton and Whitchurch.

Portals quickly adapted well to life in what was then a highly competitive Division 2 and clinched a final position of 3rd which was enough to secure a second successive promotion.

[1] In the league's inaugural season Portals finished in a steady 12th position but in June 1987 the parent company suddenly withdrew their support, forcing the club to sadly leave the competition and disband just after celebrating their 60th anniversary.

The Portals ground at Laverstoke Park, located alongside the B3400 between Whitchurch and Overton, remained in use after the clubs untimely demise.

In the early fifties, locally born Brian Clifton played for Portals before enjoying a long professional career with Southampton and Grimsby Town.