The story of our club, decade by decade
2010-2019
In 2010, the latest crop of talent achieved their higher league finish of 12th in Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division 1.
In 2010 the reserve side earned promotion to Stroud and District Football League Division 3 to give the club an identical footing to where they had been back in 1999-2000; first team in GNSL Division 1, Reserves in SDFL Division 3.
Not long after getting the club back to where they had been, adversary hit again. In 2013 the club were relegated out of Gloucestershire Northern Senior League and entered another transitional period, with the reserve side also being relegated to Stroud and District Football League Division 5.
A new batch of players pulled together, including two future first team managers in Craig Salter and Dave Moore, along with the class of the early 2000s who were now becoming the stalwarts with Darren Brown, Ross Hancock and Daniel Rosenberg continuing their playing days.
In 2018 this side won Stroud and District Football League Division 1, a fourth time for the club. The title was sealed in dramatic fashion; heading into the final games of the season Barnwood were top of the league on goal difference, by just a single goal. They needed to equal or better the result of their title challengers Frampton United Reserves. Barnwood won 6-0 and clinched the title by 2 goals, restoring promotion back to the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League.
Also in 2018 the reserve side gained promotion back to Stroud and District Football League Division 3, as things were once again on the up for the club.
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
