The club readopted the Witney Town name in 2011, but was dissolved during the 2012–13 season while playing in the Hellenic League Premier Division.
[2] Herbert Smith, a successful full-back who moved to Oxford City, later played for Derby County and Stoke City, appeared four times for the England national football team in 1905 and 1906, and helped win a gold medal for his country as a left-back at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
The club re-formed as Witney Town in 1922, playing in the Oxfordshire Senior League and finishing as champions five times.
[3] In 1979, Trevor Francis, Britain's first £1m player, made his first appearance for his new club Nottingham Forest in a testimonial held at Witney Town's ground, a match arranged by Ron Atkinson,[5] the then-manager of West Bromwich Albion, who had coached at Witney during the 1970s.
In 1992, the club moved from Marriotts Close to a purpose-built stadium near Curbridge, initially named Oakey Park after a former chairman, Aubrey Oakey, and later renamed the Marriotts Stadium after the family who sold the old ground to the club.
During this period they survived a winding-up petition and were converted to a limited company in 1993,[4] and local businessman Brian Constable was appointed as chief executive.
Brendan Rodgers, later manager of Liverpool, spent two months on loan at Witney as a player in 1994–95.
In 2002 the club obtained a lease on the original Witney Town stadium and were accepted into Division One (West) of the Hellenic League for the 2002–03 season.
The idea to resurrect the club was fronted by new chairman Paul Foster, who installed Ben Reardon as the new manager, alongside Steve Potts and Ashley Edwards as the coaching team for the new side.
[citation needed] On 18 January 2025, they reached the Oxfordshire Charity Cup final, beating KEA 4–0 away in the semi-final.