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Accrington Stanley Football Club is a professional association football club based in Accrington, Lancashire, England, that compete in the EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system. They have spent their complete history playing at the Crown Ground. The club is known as Accrington Stanley, Stanley or just Accrington.
Accrington Stanley was an English football club based in Accrington, Lancashire. Established in 1891, the club played in the Football League between 1921 and 1962, when the club became the second to resign from the League mid-season.
The original town team, Accrington, were amongst the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, before resigning from the league after just five years.A team called Stanley Villa already existed at the time, named as such because they were based at the Stanley Arms on Stanley Street in Accrington.
Peel Park was a football stadium in Accrington, Lancashire that was the home of Accrington Stanley F.C. between 1919 until their dissolution in 1966.. The record attendance was set in a friendly match against Blackburn Rovers on 15 November 1954 with 17,634 spectators in attendance.
The 1886 Accrington squad Graph showing Accrington's performance from the first season of the English Football League in 1888–89 to 1892–93 when they resigned from the league Accrington Football Club was formed following a meeting at a local public house in 1878 .
This is a category associated with the Accrington Stanley F.C. football club, but it should also be used to hold information on the two previous professional football teams from Accrington - Accrington F.C. and Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891)
Name Nationality Position Accrington career League Apps League Goals Notes Mauro Almeida Portugal DF 2007 5 0 [1]Pádraig Amond Republic of Ireland FW 2011–2012 42 7 [2]
The football stadium is called the Crown Ground. Until the 2012–13 season, when Fleetwood Town entered the league, Accrington was the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club. [73] Accrington Stanley Football Club has had its own pub in the town, the Crown, since July 2007. [74]