Bungay Town F.C.
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| Full name | Bungay Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Black Dogs |
| Founded | 9 July 1925 |
| Ground | Maltings Meadow Sports Ground, Bungay |
| Chairman | Tony Sprake |
| Manager | Tim Clarke |
| League | Anglian Combination Division One |
| 2016–17 | Anglian Combination Division One, 4th of 15 |
Bungay Town Football Club is an English football club based in Bungay, Suffolk. The club are currently members of Anglian Combination Division One and play at the Maltings Meadow Sports Ground.
The club was founded following a public meeting on 9 July 1925 following a poor season for both Bungay United and Bungay Harriers in the South Norfolk League. The new club entered both the Lowestoft & District League and the North Suffolk League, and after doing well in both, moved up to the East Anglian League in 1926. In 1933 they switched to the Norwich & District League, before joining the Norfolk & Suffolk League in 1935.
After World War II they won the league three years in succession between 1946–47 and 1948–49 and again in 1951–52, after which they applied to join the Eastern Counties League, but were unsuccessful. They also won the League Cup three years in a row from 1948 to 1950 and again in 1956, as well as the Suffolk Senior Cup, which they picked up in 1950 and 1961. They also began entering the FA Cup in 1950, which they continued to do until 1963. During their period of success, crowds reached four figures.
In 1963 the club entered the Eastern Counties League. However, they finished bottom in their first season, and withdrew at its end to become founder members of the Anglian Combination, which had been formed by a merger of the Norfolk & Suffolk League and the East Anglian League. They were placed in Division One, and were promoted to the Premier Division at the end of the 1968–69 season. Following relegation back to Division One in 1972–73 they went on to become somewhat of a yo-yo club, as they were promoted in 1974–75, relegated in 1978–79, promoted in 1980–81, relegated in 1983–84, promoted in 1987–88 and relegated again in 1989–90. In 1992 they were relegated to Division Two, before returning to Division One in 1998. They were demoted back to Division Two in 2002, before returning to Division One in 2008. They were relegated back to Division Two after finishing bottom of the table in 2010–11.
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