The story of our club, decade by decade
2000-2009
Powell's rebuild focussed on recruitment on exciting young players who the club could depend on. Players who were teenagers but would go on to stay at the club for life, as more than just players. This exciting squad included Darren Brown, who's father Steve and uncle Tony had been with the club since its inception, Robbie Sherwood, Daniel Rosenberg, Ross Hancock, Chris Coward, featuring alongside experienced stalwarts Steve Brown, Mark 'Lefty' Ellis, Joey Spence and captain Simon Wager.
The first signs of the club rebuilding on the pitch was in 2005 when they were runners-up in the Gloucestershire FA Junior County Cup.
The following season 2006 the Reserve team was reformed and entered into Stroud and District Football League Division 6 under the stewardship of Mike Bollands.
In 2005 the first team won Stroud and District Football League Division 1 for the second time in its history, a back to back success after winning Stroud and District Football League Division 2 the previous year. The club was denied entry to the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League as a ban was still in place following their withdrawal prior to the 1999/2000 season.
The first team remained in Stroud and District Football League Division 1, winning it again in 2008 to secure promotion back to Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division 2.
Promotion back to Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division 1 followed in 2009 after finisihing as runners-up in Division 2.
Crest and colours
The original Barnwood United club crest was created by Tony Brown. As a lifelong Aston Villa fan, Brown chose claret & blue with gold trim. Key elements of the original club crest include:
Trees representing woods.
An owl which is intended to represent a barn owl so that, together with the woods, this signifies Barnwood (Barn [owl] - wood). However the image depicts an owl with pointy ears, which a barn owl does not have.
A football to represent the nature of the club.
A Viking helmet in honour of the Clubs prior name.
The crest also adorns an established ('EST.') date. Images don't provide total clarity of the year it represents. Vikings was founded in 1978 and the date the club name changed to Barnwood United was at some point between 1995 and 2000.
In 2020 the club sanctioned a revamp of the badge, in order to modernise it and make available high quality resolution images. The new badge deliberately remained recognisable to the original. Notable alterations included:
A simplified colour palette; removal of the gold outline around the trees, a change of the football to be gold outline with no trim, a change of the text from black to gold, use of only gold in the owl. This reduced the number of colours from 7 (claret, blue, gold, green, beige, white, black) down to just 4 (claret, blue, gold, green).
The pointy owl ears became less prominent to be more identifiable as a barn owl.
Club crest early 2000s
