Editing Berkshire (section)

===Football===
[[File:Madejski Stadium - geograph.org.uk - 3023491.jpg|thumb|right|The Select Car Leasing Stadium in Reading]]
[[Reading F.C.]] is the only Berkshire football club to play professional [[association football|football]]. Despite being founded in 1871, the club did not join the [[Football League]] until 1920, and first played in the top tier of English football in the [[2006–07 in English football|2006–07 season]].

Newbury was home to [[A.F.C. Newbury]], which was one of only two football clubs to be sponsored by Vodafone (the other being [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]). In 2006 Vodafone ended its sponsorship of the club,<ref>{{cite news |title=Vodafone ends AFC Newbury deal |publisher=Newbury Weekly News |url=http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=2242 |date=23 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203062511/http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=2242 |archive-date=3 December 2007 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> following which the club collapsed. A local pub team from the Old London Apprentice took over the ground temporarily and now compete in the [[Hellenic Football League]] as [[Newbury F.C.]]

There are several amateur and semi-professional football clubs in the county. These include [[Maidenhead United]], [[Slough Town F.C.|Slough Town]], [[Hungerford Town F.C.|Hungerford Town]], [[Thatcham Town F.C.|Thatcham Town]], [[Ascot United F.C.|Ascot United]], [[A.F.C. Aldermaston]], [[Sandhurst Town F.C.|Sandhurst Town]], [[Windsor F.C. (2011)|Windsor F.C.]], [[Wokingham & Emmbrook F.C.]], [[Bracknell Town F.C.]] and [[Reading City F.C.|Reading City]].