Yeading F.C. are an English association football club now in the Premier Division of the Isthmian League.
Their roots trace to a youth club formed in Yeading (pronounced "yedding") in 1960. They have been known as Yeading Football Club since 1965. However, they remained in the junior and intermediate ranks until the 1980s when they were at last granted senior status, joining the old London Spartan League in 1984 and the Isthmian League in 1987. In 1990 they won their first national title, the FA Vase, as well as their regional division of the league. The following year they were promoted to the league's Premier Division for the first time but were relegated in 1998.
After the Isthmian League First Division was divided in 2002 they were placed in Division One (North). They won the championship of that league in the 2003-04 season, returning to the Premier Division. A strong start to the season was crowned on December 5, 2004 with their being drawn at home to Newcastle United F.C. in the third round of the FA Cup, the first time two clubs six divisions apart in the English football league system have faced each other. Yeading's average league game attendance of 137 contrasted with Newcastle's nearly 52,000. After some confusion as to whether the game could be played in front of 2,300 at Yeading's ground, The Warren, it was decided to play it on January 9, 2005 at Loftus Road, and the crowd numbered 10,824. A scoreless first half held out hope of a legendary upset but two second-half Newcastle goals decided the game.
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