Episode 14 of the 2025/26 Grassroots Plus took the team to Suffolk

Grassroots Plus have been on holiday, and found a new club to talk too.

Bungay is a small market town alongside the River Waveney on the Norfolk/Suffolk border south of Norwich. The Football Club was formed in 1925, following the amalgamation of existing Bungay clubs and joined the Norfolk and Suffolk League a decade later, a league they came to dominate during the club’s “golden years” from 1946 to 1952 when they won the League four times, the League Cup on three occasions, and famously, the Suffolk Senior Cup at Portman Road in 1950. In 1958 the club’s famed cup-fighting tradition saw them win through five rounds in the F.A. Amateur Cup, including a 6-5 win against Kingstonian, before losing at home to Ilford in front of a crowd of over 2000. In 1961, they again reached the competition proper, losing in a replay to Leytonstone (now part of National League side Dagenham & Redbridge), it wasn’t all disappointment as they went on to reclaim the Suffolk Senior Cup. The club became founder-members of the Anglian Combination in 1964 and have remained in the ever since. Bungay initially played at the Recreation Ground. A grandstand was built in 1934, but it was destroyed by a bomb during WW2and was not rebuilt. The ground was in a flood plain, resulting in the pitch being described as "frequently reduced to a quagmire" requiring matches to be frequently moved to Outney Common. In 1953 they moved to their current ground at Maltings Meadow, a move which had first been suggested in 1947. The new ground was opened with a match against Lowestoft club Eastern Coachworks on 27 August 1953 attended by 300. The main stand was damaged by fire in the eighties and never rebuilt. In 1999 Bungay Town FC joined forces with other sports clubs using the Maltings Meadow as founder members of the Bungay & District Sports Association. 2003 saw the club merge with the towns existing junior club, Bungay Rangers, to offer footballing opportunities for boys and girls from 7 to 16. Twelve months later a merger with local, neighbouring club Ditchingham Rovers added two Sunday Men's teams. 2004 also saw the formation of a Bungay Town Ladies team, reflecting the fact that football is now the major participation sport for girls in the UK. The development of new facilities, with a clubhouse and changing room complex opening in March 2006, a floodlit Astroturf training area opened with floodlighting of the main football pitch completed the following year enabling the club to run an Under 18s midweek team in the Thurlow Nunn Youth League. After clinching a League and Cup double and in 2024 Bungay were promoted to the Anglian Combination Premier Division for the first time since 1991. Although Bungay is in Suffolk, both the club's main grounds have been across the border in Norfolk, and the only times they have played home matches in Suffolk were the temporary arrangements at Outney Common and Honeypot Meadow