St Peters Football Club was formed in 1919 and started playing in the old Country Parish Football Association in the season of 1919/20 when matches were played on pitches at St Peter's Arsenal and St Peter's Barracks. As members of the old C.P.F.A., the Club's first success was to win the Western Division in 1922. Also in that season, the Club reached the final of the Trinity Shield losing 1-0 to Trinity.
The Club was beginning to establish itself and in 1926 went over to London to play against the famed Wycombe Wanderers from the Athenian League.
Although experiencing hard times during and after the War, St Peter's continued to promote the good name of the Club and Island football. The Club was now playing in the Saturday Football League with games being played on our present Clos des Pauvre ground. It was not long before more honours began to arrive! In the fifties, we won both League and Cups, culminating in a purple patch which saw us win the Woods Cup on four occasions out of five finals.
History shows that we came very close to folding due to a number of reasons including an apparent lack of interest! Out of adversity good often arises and a small band of loyal officials and players were determined that St Peter's Football Club would continue. With an awful lot of hard work and determination this band put together a group of young players and tyhe foundation stone for the modern St Peter's Football Club had been laid.
Honours in the 1970's included winning the Le Riche Cup three times in four successive finals, the Willis Cup twice in three successive finals and the oldest Trophy in Channel Island football, The Trinity Shield for two successive seasons. The most successful cup win of the 70's occurred when, entering the competition for the first time, we secured Guernsey's premier knockout Trophy, The Jeremie Cup. The never to be forgotten final of 1976 was won on penalties.
In 1977, the Club embarked on a scheme to build its own Clubhouse. Saturday 13th August was to be a very proud day for all members who witnessed the opening of the facility by that grand old gentleman of Parish and Island football, the late Mr.C. L. J. Anthony. The opening was followed by a match against the Alderney Island team and, another lasting chapter had been written for St Peter's football Club.
In 1990, St Peter's Football Club took a giant leap into the unknown with the formation of a Ladies team.
In 1995, St Peter's celebrated its 75th annivesary. The officials and mambers, led by the President Tom Du Feu, proudly acknowledged the Club's achievements with the building of the first All-Seater stand for any Club in the Channel Islands. It had been hard work on everyones part but with the loyalty of Club Officials like Ken Huelin, Kerr Cameron, Peter Fleury and Chris Benest and, Secretary, Stan Journeaux, dreams had now become a reality.
So well received were the new facilities that in 1996 the inter-insular match known as "The Muratti" was held at St Peter's Football Club whilst the main Island Stadium at Springfield was being re-developed. A real feather in the cap of our forward thinking Committee.
The Millennium year saw continued progress. Yet again we were runners up in the League, this time to St. Pauls. we were semi-finalists in the Wheway Cup, the Le Riche Cup and the Devon Cup. Barry Hardisty won the Players "player of the year" and the "C" Team won the Richomme Memorial Trophy.
The Ladies team had gone from strength to strength and, such was the demand, October 2000 saw the formation of a Junior section with 30+ girls undergoing regular training. In the years since 1996 when the Ladies (then known as the Jersey Cougars) started using the Club facilities for training, they won the Championship on many occasions.
Under the previously sponsored Rothmans League and during the first sixteen years of the Combination, the Club has been a major force in all Cup competitions but had yet to achieve the ultimate goal of winning the first division championship.
2001 opened with a very good spirit within the Club. We had won the Charity Shield in September beating Jersey Wanderers 6-1 in the final. We had built up a good head-of-steam and after beating St Pauls 1-0 in the final of the Le Riche Trophy we were all very optimistic about winnng the League for the first time in our history.
On 31st March 2001, and after 82 years of League football, we at last succeded in winning the League with two games left to play. The scenes at the ground were wonderful. Our President Tom Du Feu could not contain his enjoyment even when deluged with water whilst being interviewed by the local media.
The sesons success continued when in April we won our 4th Trophy for the season, The Wheway Cup, by Guernsey's St. Martins 5-2. The 5th Trophy arrived when we beat Guernsey's Sylvans 5-0 to become Channel Island Champions and win the Upton Park Cup.
Over the years, St Peter's Football Club has been served by many generations of loyal and hard-working members, names like W. P. Le Marquand, Peter and Frank Surcouf, Frank Gallais, Jack Tardival, Oscar Delanoe, and our most recent past President, "Gentleman" Jack Le Feuvre. All these along with many others rekindle many memories of the Club'S history.