Havant & Waterlooville Football Club, an association football club based in Havant, Hampshire, England, was founded in 1998 as a result of Havant Town and Waterlooville merging as one team. In the 1997–98 Southern Football League Southern Division the two teams finished in 12th and 10th respectively, so when they merged Havant & Waterlooville played in the same league the following season. In their inaugural season they won the 1998–99 Southern Football League Southern Division and gained promotion to the Southern League Premier Division where they remained until 2004. At the end of the 2003–04 season the National League System was reorganised and Havant & Waterlooville joined the Football Conference South where they have remained to the present day, in 2015 the league was renamed National