St. Margaretsbury

The record attendance at the Recreation Ground came on a day the home side lost. St. Margaretsbury drew 450 people through the gate for a Third Qualifying Round FA Cup tie in 2001–02, then went down 3–0 to Stafford Rangers — the biggest crowd the ground has held. Two seasons later they reached the same stage again and fell 2–0 to Kettering Town, closer on the scoreline.

The club started out as Stanstead Abbots FC in 1894. It carried that name for nearly seven decades before the move from Mill Field to the Recreation Ground prompted the change to St. Margaretsbury, tying the club's identity to the ground it had just taken on. The Recreation Ground holds 1,000.

League form followed a similar pattern of long stretches without much to show, then a sudden run. Through the 1970s and 1980s the side shuttled between the Premier and First Divisions of the Hertfordshire Senior County League, managing no better than fourth. Moving up to the Spartan League in 1992 changed that: runners-up in 1994–95, then champions of the Premier Division the following season, the high point of the club's honours list. An FA regional reshuffle sent them into the Essex Senior League in 2018, and relegation to the Eastern Counties League Division One South followed in 2022.

Hakeem Odoffin made his senior debut for Barnet in a Herts Senior Cup tie against the club in November 2014, while still on scholarship there, and went on to spells at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Northampton Town, Rotherham United and Luton Town.