Worksop Town

Worksop Town Football Club is an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. It currently plays in the Northern Premier League Division One East. They are nicknamed the Tigers, and usually sport an amber and black home kit.

The club is currently playing its home games at The Windsor Foodservice Stadium, Sandy Lane, Worksop. It is a ground owned by the chairman, Pete Whitehead.

History

First club

The club claims it was originally founded in 1861, which would make it the fourth oldest association football club in the world. However, there is no contemporary evidence to support this claim. The earliest record of football being played by a town club comes from 1873, when a group of 15 Worksopians took on 15 from the Pestalozzian School in the town. The first recorded use of the Worksop Town name was in 1882, when a team using that name played Eckington on 18 February.

The 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 spell in the Midland League.

Worksop re-joined the Midland League in 1900 and became a prominent member of the competition before the First World War. It finished third in the league in 1903 and, in 1908, reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1–9 at Stamford Bridge to Chelsea in front of 18,995 spectators.

After the First World War put a halt to football activity in the town, the game returned in 1919 when Worksop Town and Manton Athletic merged to become Worksop and Manton Athletic, although the Worksop Town name remained in popular usage. The club joined the Midland League and in 1921 won the competition for the first time. The 1920s provided the club with its best spell in the FA Cup, reaching the first round in four out of six seasons from 1921. In 1923, it drew Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane – the Tigers pulled off a shock by holding Spurs to goal-less draw. Th

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