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Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional association football club in Preston, Lancashire, England. They currently play in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. Originally a cricket club, Preston has been based at Deepdale since 1875. The club ...
Chart showing the progress of Preston North End F.C. through the English football league system. Preston North End is an English football club in Preston, Lancashire which traces its origins to a local cricket club formed c.1863. This club moved to Deepdale in January 1875. They started playing football as a winter activity in 1878 and, in May ...
In his autobiography, Tom Finney wrote: "The championship stayed with North End – by now tagged the Old Invincibles – the following year, but runners-up spot had to suffice for the next three seasons". [10] Of the seven teams to have completed the Double in England, Preston remain the only one to have done so unbeaten.
No less an authority than the club badge confirms 1880 as the founding date of the football club (please see: ), as does the club's own history page: "Preston North End can be traced back to 1863, but at that time it was linked with cricket and the first game of football was fifteen years away. [...] The success of other clubs in Lancashire who ...
Scored Preston North End's first ever league goal and captained the side in their 1889 FA Cup Final victory that clinched the first "Double", scoring the opening goal. [112] Freddie Osborn England: IF/CF: 1913–1920 68 5 73 40 4 Top goalscorer 1913–14 (26 goals) and 1914–15 (17 goals) as Preston North End gained promotion from the Second ...
The old 'Pavilion' stand, was replaced by the 'Invincibles Pavilion' for the 2008–09 season, named after the Preston North End team of the 1888–89 season who were the first League champions, the first team to complete the League and FA Cup Double, and the only English team to complete a season unbeaten in both League and Cup.
The 1889 FA Cup final was contested by Preston North End and Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Kennington Oval. Preston won 3–0, with goals by Fred Dewhurst , Jimmy Ross and Sam Thomson . This completed the " Double " for the victors, Preston having already won the inaugural Football League title without losing a game, a feat which earned them ...
Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England's greatest-ever players.