Falmouth Town F.C.
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| Full name | Falmouth Town Association Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Town, The Ambers |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Ground | Bickland Park, Falmouth |
| Capacity | 6,000 (350 seated) |
| Chairman | Graham Medlin |
| Manager | Andrew Westgarth |
| League | South West Peninsula League Premier Division |
| 2015–16 | South West Peninsula League Premier Division, 11th |
Falmouth Town Association Football Club is a football club based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. They are currently members of the South West Peninsula League Premier Division and play at Bickland Park. The club are the only Cornish team to reach the first round proper of the FA Cup, which they have done on three occasions; 1962–63, 1967–68 and 1969–70.
Falmouth Town joined the old Cornwall Senior League in 1950 and a season later became founder members of the South Western League in 1951–52 playing their home games at Union Corner (a converted farmers field) Also on The Recreation Ground. The club moved to Ashfield (where the Park & Float is now) in 1953 for two seasons. This coincided with a change of colours from Red with white sleeves to the current Black & Amber. The club were strapped for cash and couldn`t afford a new strip so Jack Maunder a staunch committee man (who supported Wolves !) bought the new strip.Then Shell Mex & B.P. paid a fortune for the ground and paid for Bickland Park into the bargain where after an interim two seasons back at Union Corner they played the opening game at Bickland Park (previously a Market Garden owned by Harcourt Williams) against Cornwall in 1957.This paved the way for a professional approach on the scale never seen in Cornwall before. In their first season at the new ground the club won its first piece of silverware by winning the South Western League Cup and without conceding a goal during the competition. The cup was retained the following year when they beat Truro City 6–3 in the final.
In the 1961–62 season the club won their first South Western League title, but also went on to complete a Cornish treble that season by winning the League Cup and the Cornwall Senior Cup beating St. Blazey (league runners up) by 7-1 a record score that still stands in front of 10,000 people at Poltair. St. Austell. The next season the club reached the First round proper of the FA cup, and still being the only Cornish team to achieve this. In front of a record home crowd of 8,000, they played Oxford United losing 1–2. The club repeated their First round appearance again n 1967, when they lost 2–5 away to Peterborough United, and in 1969 when the met Peterborough again at their home ground losing 4–1 to the visitors.
Under Manager George Robertson the club won the Cornwall Senior Cup again in the 1964–65 season, and repeating the cup success a season later along with another South Western League title. The 1967/68 campaign saw the club achieve its second domestic treble, and in the 1970–71 season they repeated this feat again, but this time without losing a single match in all three competitions. The club then went on to dominate the league, winning the next three seasons League titles as well. After the fourth title at the end of the 1973–74 season the club then joined the Western league.
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