South Park Football Club was formed in 1897 and immediately became founder members of the Redhill & District Football League along with other local clubs Godstone, Meadvale and Reigate Priory Reserves. 2001 saw Reigate Town Football Club move to South Park and the clubs merged to became known as South Park & Reigate Town Football Club. For the 2003/04 season the club reverted back to its original name of South Park Football Club. In 2006 the first team were promoted from the Crawley & District League to the Combined Counties Football League Division One. As their new changing facilities were being built played their home matches at Cranleigh. In their first season in the Combined Counties League the team finished in seventh place in the league. Subsequent league placings were 12th, 14th, 6th and in 2010/11 the Sparks gained promotion to the Premier Division with a third-place finish.

South Park were in no mood to hang around at this level and after ending 8th in 2011/12 and 4th in 2012/13 they finished their 2013/14 season with a 1-0 home win over Windsor which ensured that they defeated every team in the division at least once and gaining 104 points, the highest total in the Combined Counties League Premier Division since Merstham in the 2007/08 season. This also won them promotion to the Isthmian League Division One South.

In their first two seasons in the Isthmian League they finished 14th and 11th and Herne Bay had the perfect record against the Sparks, winning all four of the encounters. Last campaign proved to be a different story, although Bay extended their unbeaten record to five games with a last-minute leveller from Stuart King in the 1-1 home draw in March. A month later and Herne Bay had begun a slippery slide down the table having lost three and drawn one of their last five fixtures. In the trip to Surrey, for the penultimate away game of the season, on the half hour Umaku Mansaray was pulled to the ground in the box and Mark Lovell levelled from the spot, his 24th goal of the season. The home side went on to win 3-1 to end the season in 8th. The Sparks reached the Second Qualifying Round of The FA Cup and lost at Tranmere Rovers in the Second Round Proper of the FA Trophy.

This time out the Sparks started at a sprint, top after two games, third after seven, but have slipped down since. This encounter was originally scheduled for Saturday 11th November 2017 but was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

They are on the back of a 2-1 win at VCD Athletic, thanks to a last-gasp penalty. This leaves them in 10th place, four positions and three points ahead of Herne Bay who have played a game more.

Results in the corresponding mid-week games in previous seasons have seen a 1-3 defeat at home to Whyteleafe in 2014/15, a 2-1 away victory over Sittingbourne in 2015/16 and last campaign the scheduled Kent Senior Cup match at Winch’s Field against Dover Athletic was postponed due to their opponent’s cup commitments.

South Park play at Whitehall Lane, South Park, Reigate, Surrey. RH2 8LG. 66.7 miles from Winch’s Field. Estimated journey time 1 hour 24 minutes. They sit in 20th place in the Isthmian South attendance table with an average of 101 (high 146, low 76). The return at Winch’s Field is on 10/02/2018.