Hitchin Town F.C.

Hitchin Town Football Club are an English semi-professional football club based in Hitchin,Hertfordshire. They will compete in the Southern Football League's Premier Division for the 2011–12 season. Founded in 1928 and known as "the Canaries", Hitchin Town have been based at Top Field since their foundation, and claim lineage from the defunct Hitchin Football Club, formed in 1865 and liquidated in 1911.

The club have played in a number of local leagues, starting off in the Spartan League before moving to first the Athenian League in 1939, then the Isthmian League in 1963 and finally the Southern League in 2004. Their most recent honour has been the Southern League Cup, which they won in 2005–06, their second season in the competition.