Bacup & Rossendale Borough F.C.
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| Full name | Bacup Borough Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Borough |
| Founded | 1879 |
| Ground | West View, Bacup |
| Capacity | 3,000 (500 seated) |
| Chairman | Frank Manning |
| Manager | Brent Peters |
| League | North West Counties League Division One |
| 2015–16 | North West Counties League Division One, 5th |
Bacup Borough Football Club is a football club based in Bacup, Lancashire, England. The club are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One and play at West View. They are full members of the Lancashire County Football Association.
The club was founded in 1879. As Bacup, they joined the Lancashire League during the 1893–94 season, taking over the fixtures of Barrow, who had resigned on 20 November 1893. After finishing bottom of the league in their first season, the following season saw the club achieve a top-half place in the table. However, the club withdrew from the league during the 1897–98 season without completing their fixtures.
In 1901 Bacup rejoined the Lancashire League, where they remained for two seasons before becoming founder members of the new Division Two of the Lancashire Combination in 1903. They remained in the division until the end of the 1910–11 season, when despite only finishing sixth, they were promoted to Division One; that season also saw them win the Lancashire Junior Cup. However, they were relegated back to Division Two the following season after finishing bottom. After three more years struggling at the bottom of Division Two they left the league in 1915.
Following World War I, the club rejoined the league in 1920, by which time they had been renamed Bacup Borough. They remained members of the now single-division Lancashire Combination until World War II, finishing in the bottom half of the table in most seasons, one of the exceptions being a third-place finish in 1929–30.
They returned to the Lancashire Combination after World War II, and won the league in 1946–47. When it was expanded to a second division in 1947, they were placed in Division One, but were relegated to Division Two at the end of the 1948–49 season, which saw them finish bottom of the table. Despite only finishing sixth in 1954–55, the club was promoted back to Division One, where they remained until the league reverted back to a single division in 1968. They were runners-up in 1972–73.
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