Sutton United Football Club, an association football club based in Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton, England, was founded in 1898 as a merger between Sutton Guild Rovers and Sutton Association Football Clubs. They were elected to play in the Athenian League for the 1921–22 season. They won the Athenian League title on three occasions and were runners-up once. After thirty-seven seasons in the Athenian League, they joined the Isthmian League (given the subtitle First Division in 1973 and then Premier Division in 1977). The club spent twenty-three seasons in the league, during that spell they won the title twice, reached the fourth round of the 1969–70 FA Cup, and reached the 1981 FA Trophy Final losing 1–0 to Bishop's Stortford. In 1986 they won the first promotion in their history as