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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.
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.
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.
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 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 .
Accrington Stanley F.C. was founded in October 1968 as a successor to the original Accrington Stanley which had collapsed in 1966. It is based in the Lancashire town of Accrington . Managerial history
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)
In Stanley's first ever game in the Football League Cup, third-tier Nottingham Forest were beaten 1–0. This set an away tie to Premier League team Watford , who needed a penalty shootout to eliminate the Lancashire club.