About the Club

In 1926, a group of railway workers including the late Mr Claude Cockwill, met in the Plymouth inn, West Street, Okehampton, in the hope of forming just one football team in the town. At a later meeting it was agreed that the name of the new team would be Okehampton Argyle. Okehampton Argyle entered the West Devon league in the 1929/30 season, and in 1931/32 we won the League Shield and the Start Cup without losing a match.

That same season, it was decided that we would join the Exeter & District league (later to become the Devon & Exeter League), where we stayed for 60 years. In the 1993/94 season, the First Team joined the Jewson South Western League. At this time the Reserve and Third teams entered the North Devon League, where they stayed for two seasons before rejoining the Devon & Exeter League. The 1996/97 season saw the First Team follow them back into the Devon & Exeter League, taking back their palce in the Premier Division.

 Okehampton Argyle have not always played their football on the current pitch here at Simmons Park. For a while we played on a site in North Road, and in the 1940s the pitch was located in Simmons Park between the bowling green and the River Okement. In those days an essential part of the kitbag was a net on a long pole, used to retrive the ball from the river. It was even taken to Exeter City's St.James Park for the 1946/47 Junior Cup Final, and can be seen in the background of the team photograph taken after the winning match.

 The following season saw the Junior League 1 title come to town, and then in 1952/53 the team won the Football Express Cup. The next major trophy won by the club was the East Devon Senior Cup in 2004/05, when Heavitree Social United were defeated in front of a crowd of more than 300 spectators. Sadly, league form did not match cup form in that season, and the First team was relegated from the Premier Division of the Devon and Exeter League. However, they immediately bounced back in 2005/06, by winning the Senior 1 title with only 2 defeats all season, and scoring 102 goals. Last season we finished fourth and were second highest scorers in the D&E Premier Division.