Worksop Town F.C.

{{Infobox football club | clubname = Worksop Town | fullname = Worksop Town Football Club | nickname = The Tigers | image = Worksop Town FC Badge.png | image_size = 140px | founded = Disputed{{efn|The club itself claims to have been formed in 1861, but this claim is based on club minute books from 1914 rather than contemporary sources. Football historian Martin Westby suggests a foundation year of 1873, based on a newspaper article from that year reporting a rugby union game at the Worksop Pestallozzian School as being 'probably the first game of football ever played in the town'.<ref>Westby, M. (2017) A History of Sheffield Football: 1857-1889.</ref> The earliest record of association football being played in Worksop comes from 1875, when a club representing the town first started playing regular fixtures. The club has also been dissolved and reformed on several occasions, most notably in 1930.}} | dissolved = | ground = Sandy Lane, Worksop | capacity = 2,500 (200 seats) | chairman = Peter Whitehead | manager = Craig Parry | league = | season = | position = | website = http://www.worksoptownfc.com/ |pattern_la1= |pattern_b1= F5FA8B |pattern_ra1= |pattern_sh1 = _white |pattern_so1 = _black |leftarm1=F5FA8B |body1=F5FA8B |rightarm1=F5FA8B |shorts1=FFFFFF |socks1=f6c211 |pattern_la2 = |pattern_b2 = |pattern_ra2 = |pattern_sh2 = |pattern_so2 = |leftarm2 = |body2 = |rightarm2 = |shorts2 = |socks2 = }} Worksop Town Football Club is an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. The team play in the . They are nicknamed The Tigers'' and play their home games at Sandy Lane in Worksop. History Previous clubs The club claims it was originally founded in 1861, which would make it the fourth oldest association football club in the world, however, no contemporary evidence to back up this claim has yet been found. , the earliest record of a game of association football being played in the town comes from December 1875, when the Sheffield Daily Telegraph reported that a Worksop team had won its opening match against Harthill The earliest record of the club using the Town suffix comes from 1882, when Worksop played Eckington on 18 February. The Town 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.