Eastbourne Town F.C.
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| Full name | Eastbourne Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Town |
| Founded | 1881 (as Devonshire Park) |
| Ground | The Saffrons, Eastbourne |
| Capacity | 3,000 (200 Seated) |
| Chairman | Tony Guarino |
| Manager | John Lambert |
| League | Southern Combination Premier Division |
| 2015–16 | Southern Combination Premier Division, 2nd |
Eastbourne Town Football Club are an English football club based in Eastbourne, East Sussex. The club is a FA Chartered Standard Community club affiliated to the Sussex County Football Association. The club was founded in 1881 as Devonshire Park FC and they claim to be the oldest senior football club in Sussex. The club are currently members of the Southern Combination Premier Division and play at the Saffrons.
Founded in 1881 as Devonshire Park Football Club, named after the original ground they played at (now the venue for the Eastbourne International Tennis tournament), they moved to their current home The Saffrons in 1886. A home they have shared since with Eastbourne Cricket Club and Eastbourne Hockey Club. They changed their name to Eastbourne F.C. in 1889 as the town was being expanded after the railway arrived into the town. Although at the time they were not in a league, they competed in the Sussex Senior Cup reaching the final ten times between 1889 and 1903, winning eight times in that period.
They were founding members of the Southern Amateur Football League in 1907 in which they remained in until 1946, winning the Sussex Senior Cup three more times in that period. They briefly left in 1920 and was one of the founding teams of the Sussex County Football League, in which they stayed for one season and returned to the Southern Amateur Football League in 1921. 1946 saw them join the Corinthian League. In 1953, Eastbourne played their local rivals Hastings United in the FA Cup, although they lost 7–2 they recorded their record attendance of 7,378.
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