[2] Thatcham Town Football Club was founded in 1894 and played friendly matches only for the first two years at "The Marsh", now known as Dunston Green.

[4] The club joined the Reading Temperance League in 1896 where it remained for the next fifty-seven years, winning Division Two in 1905–06.

In the 1988–89 season, Thatcham reached the quarter-finals of the FA Vase, losing 2–0 away at local rivals Hungerford Town.

[5] To provide improved facilities, the club moved to a new ten-acre site at Waterside Park during the 1992–93 season and a record gate for the new stadium was set when 1,400 spectators saw Thatcham lose by a single goal to Aldershot Town, the newly reformed phoenix club of former Football League team Aldershot, in the first round of the 1993–94 FA Vase.

Two seasons later, under new manager Jason Braidwood, the club reached three local cup finals, winning two of them, and finished third in the League.

[7] In April 2011, Thatcham Town beat Tadley Calleva 4–1 to win The Basingstoke Senior Cup Final.

[9] The 2017–18 season saw Thatcham win the FA Vase,[10] beating the club's previous best performance in the competition.

[16] On 17 March, they beat 1874 Northwich in the first leg of the semi-final 1–0, following a fourth-minute penalty from Ross Cook in front of 1,134 at Waterside Park.

[17] The Kingfishers won the second leg 3–2, with a brace from Gavin James and a goal from Shane Cooper-Clark, to give them a 4–2 aggregate victory and a place in the final at Wembley Stadium.

On 27 February 2022 after a series of defeats and with Town in 14th place with 25 points from 27 games, he left the club by mutual consent.

Waterside Park has a covered-seated stand at the southern side of the pitch, containing around three hundred seats, which hosts the club's offices and changing rooms.

The record attendance at the current home is 1,400 for the visit of Aldershot Town in the FA Vase in the 1993–94 season.

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He played for Thatcham three times before moving on to Reading; he later won the FA Cup with Wimbledon - scoring the winning goal in the final.