Fleetwood Town
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| Full name | Fleetwood Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Trawlermen, The Fishermen |
| Founded | 1908 (as Fleetwood F.C.) 1977 (first reformation as Fleetwood Town F.C.) 1997 (second reformation Fleetwood Wanderers F.C.) |
| Ground | Highbury Stadium |
| Capacity | 5,327 (2,672 seated) |
| Chairman | Andy Pilley |
| Manager | Uwe Rösler |
| League | League One |
| 2016–17 | League One, 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
Fleetwood Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Fleetwood, Lancashire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of English football. Established in 1997, the current Fleetwood Town F.C. is the third incarnation of the club which first formed in 1908. Their home strip is red shirts with white sleeves and white shorts. The home ground is Highbury Stadium in Fleetwood and its supporters are affectionally known as The Cod Army. The club won the 2011–12 Football Conference, and played in the Football League for the first time in the 2012–13 season. In May 2014, at Wembley, Fleetwood won the promotion play-off to League One, the club's 6th promotion in 10 years.
The current club was officially established in 1997 but, in two previous incarnations, the club's history dates back to 1908. The original club, Fleetwood F.C., were champions of the Lancashire Combination in 1923–24, and registered a hat-trick of Lancashire Combination Cup wins in 1932, 1933 and 1934. Their goalkeeper in the first of those victories was Frank Swift, then only eighteen years old. After almost sixty years as a Lancashire Combination club, they were made founder members of the Northern Premier League in 1968. The club finished in 10th place in their first season. As the NPL was one of several leagues immediately below Division Four of the Football League, this was effectively the fifth tier of English football, and the club would not surpass this success until 2010–11. Despite winning the Northern Premier League Cup in 1971, the club languished in the lower half of the table, finishing bottom for two successive seasons (1974–75 and 1975–76) and folded in 1976 because of financial difficulties. Great players include the late Percy Ronson, after whom one stand is named.
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