Bridgwater United Football Club

What Bridgwater United Football Club does

Bridgwater United Football Club is a community-owned non-league football club based at Fairfax Park on the Bridgwater and Taunton College campus in Somerset, England. It competes in the Toolstation League at Step 5 of the English football pyramid with a men's first team and operates a women's first team alongside a youth academy covering boys and girls aged U9–U16. The club is run through Bridgwater United FC Ltd (Company Number 13045735), wholly owned by Ian Davis, with a workforce of seven employees and matchday delivery supported by volunteers in stewarding, turnstile, PA and videography roles. Its commercial activity centres on a small portfolio of paid matchday products: fixed-price sponsorship packages (£200 ball sponsor, £350 main match sponsor), digital matchday programmes and hospitality experiences sold directly at the stadium, with no digital product, app or subscription layer. Beyond football, the club has extended its venue into community services, including an ESOL adult-education tutoring programme taught 12 hours per week, and reaches supporters via Facebook, Twitter/X and its WordPress-based official website.

The business carries a long but chequered lineage: the original Bridgwater AFC was founded in 1898, with successive incarnations folding or going into liquidation in 1902, pre-WWI and 1982, after which the current supporter-formed club was established in 1984. Notable heritage includes FA Cup first-round-proper appearances against Oxford United and Crystal Palace and Western League titles in 1967–68 and 1980–81. Following relegation back to Step 5 in 2016–17, the club rebranded to Bridgwater United FC for 2025/26 under new manager Lee Lashenko, repositioning itself as a multi-product community club rather than a single men's team.

Name

Bridgwater United Football Club

Legal name

Bridgwater United FC Ltd

Website

https://bridgwaterunitedfc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bridgwater United Football Club is a community-owned, Step 5 non-league football club in Bridgwater, Somerset, operating men's and women's first teams, a U9–U16 academy, matchday sponsorship and an ESOL tutoring programme under sole owner Ian Davis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-League Football Club

NAICS

Sports Teams and Clubs (711211), Sports and Recreation Instruction (611620)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAKACAE

Local Amateur Clubs & Community Sports Organizations

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Sports (Leagues, Teams, Events, Venues)/Collegiate & Amateur Sports Organizations (NCAA, Federations, Clubs)

SECONDARYEDALAIAB

Club Sports Programs

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Athletics, Recreation & Fitness

Keywords

• Non-league football
• Youth football academy
• Matchday hospitality
• Football sponsorship packages
• Community football club

Headquarters

HQ city

Bridgwater

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Bridgwater United Football Club operates a community-based non-league football club competing in the Toolstation League (Step 5 of the English football pyramid) with both men's and women's first teams. The club also runs a youth academy offering trials and structured coaching for boys and girls (U9-U16), and sells matchday sponsorship and hospitality packages to local businesses at Fairfax Park stadium in Bridgwater, Somerset.

Product overview

Bridgwater United Football Club is a non-league football club based in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, operating as a single unified club with both men's and women's first teams competing at various levels of the English football pyramid. The club's portfolio includes the Men's First Team (currently in the Toolstation League), Women's First Team, and a Youth Development Academy offering trials and coaching for boys and girls aged U9-U16. Supporting the core football operations, the club offers Match Day Sponsorship Packages for commercial partners, Matchday Programmes as digital publications, Matchday Operations volunteer roles, and an ESOL Tutoring Programme for adult education. The club's home venue is Fairfax Park at Bridgwater and Taunton College campus.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Match Day Sponsorship Packages

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Street FC: Local Somerset non-league club featured in Bridgwater United's matchday programmes, sharing a similar community-club model, fan demographics, and tier level.
• Bideford FC: Devon-based non-league club at a comparable tier of the pyramid, sharing the rural community-club model and the same tier-level commercial economics.
• Frome Town FC: Somerset/Wiltshire non-league club at a similar level of the English football pyramid, serving an overlapping local catchment and competing for similar community sponsorship and matchday revenue.
• Clevedon Town FC: Somerset-area non-league club referenced in Bridgwater United manager commentary, competing at a similar tier with overlapping supporter and sponsor audiences.
• Barnstaple Town FC: Western League club mentioned in Bridgwater United's recent match reports as a title-chasing opponent, representing a directly comparable Step 5/6 community football operation.
• Taunton Town FC: A Somerset-based non-league football club competing in the Southern League, the closest geographic and tier-level competitor to Bridgwater United, sharing the same regional supporter base.
• Paulton Rovers FC: Somerset-based non-league club competing at a comparable tier of the Western/Southern League system, sharing the regional catchment and sponsorship market.
• Bristol Manor Farm FC: Western League club in the same Somerset/Bristol region, operating a similar community-led non-league model with comparable revenue mix from gate receipts and sponsorship.
• Tiverton Town FC: Devon-based non-league club recently played by Bridgwater United in pre-season, operating in a similar tier with comparable community-matchday economics.

Broad incumbents

• Yeovil Town FC: Larger Somerset-based football club historically competing in the Football League, representing a more established incumbent in the same regional market that draws from the same catchment area.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BridgwaterUtd
• Facebookfacebook.com/bridgwaterunited
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bridgwater-united

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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