Worksop Town F.C.

Worksop Town Football Club is an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. They play in the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East League at level 9 of the English football league system. They are nicknamed the Tigers, and usually sport an amber and black home kit. The club are currently playing their home games at Handsworth Parramore's Sandy Lane ground – a ground Worksop used to own themselves. HistoryThe club claims it was originally founded in 1861, which would make it the fourth oldest football in the world. Although there is no contemporary evidence for this claim, the club's 1911 minute books do state that the organisation was in its fiftieth year. The earliest record of football being played in the town comes from 1873, when a group of 15 Worksopians took on 15 from a local church. The first recorded use of the Worksop Town name came in 1882, when a team using that name played Eckington on 18 FebruaryThe club joined the Sheffield & District Football League in 1892 and also played in the Sheffield Association League during the late 1890s after an unsuccessful one-year stint in the Midland League. Worksop re-joined the Midland League in 1900 and would become prominent members of the competition before the First World War. They finished as high as 3rd in the league in 1903, and in 1908 they reached the 1st Round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1–9 at Stamford Bridge to Chelsea in front of 18, 995 spectators.

Worksop Town Football Club is an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. They play in the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East League at level 9 of the English football league system. They are nicknamed the Tigers, and usually sport an amber and black home kit. The club are currently playing their home games at Handsworth Parramore's Sandy Lane ground – a ground Worksop used to own themselves. HistoryThe club claims it was originally founded in 1861, which would make it the fourth oldest football in the world. Although there is no contemporary evidence for this claim, the club's 1911 minute books do state that the organisation was in its fiftieth year. The earliest record of football being played in the town comes from 1873, when a group of 15 Worksopians took on 15 from a local church. The first recorded use of the Worksop Town name came in 1882, when a team using that name played Eckington on 18 FebruaryThe club joined the Sheffield & District Football League in 1892 and also played in the Sheffield Association League during the late 1890s after an unsuccessful one-year stint in the Midland League. Worksop re-joined the Midland League in 1900 and would become prominent members of the competition before the First World War. They finished as high as 3rd in the league in 1903, and in 1908 they reached the 1st Round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1–9 at Stamford Bridge to Chelsea in front of 18, 995 spectators.