Glastonbury Town F.C.
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| Full name | Glastonbury Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Dollies |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Ground | Abbey Moor Stadium, Glastonbury |
| Chairman | Mark Clarke |
| Manager | Nick Mortimer |
| League | Somerset County League Division One West |
| 2016–17 | Somerset County League Division One West, 10/13 |
Glastonbury F.C. is a football club based in Glastonbury, England. The club is affiliated to the Somerset County FA. The club are currently members of the Somerset County League Division One West and play at the Abbey Moor Stadium.
The club was founded in 1890, and were originally called Glastonbury Avalon Rovers. After the turn of the century, the club entered the FA cup for the first time in the 1902–03 season, and had changed their name to Glastonbury. The club were playing in the East Somerset Football League at the beginning of the twentieth century, winning the league in the 1904–05 and 1912–13 campaigns. The club gained its first cup silverware when they lifted the Somerset Junior cup in the 1912–13 competition and retained this cup the following season.
After the First World War, the club joined Division two of the Western Football League, for the 1919–20 season. They stayed in this division for three seasons until the Western league decided to disband the second division. The club then played in the Bristol & District and Bristol Suburban Leagues until rejoining Division two of the Western League again for the 1931–32 campaign. Four seasons later, the club took home the Somerset Senior Cup when they beat Keynsham Town 4–2 in the final.
When football returned to the country after the Second World War, the club joined Division one of the Western league for the 1946–47 season, and two seasons later won the league. The club that year also completed a double by winning the Somerset Premier Cup. The club would then have further success by winning the league again two seasons later in the 1950–51 competition. The club would then have to wait 15 more years for silverware when they picked up the Western League Challenge Cup in the 1965–66 season. Four seasons later the club would then become league champions again for the third time.
The club remained in the top division of the Wessex league until the end of the 1978–79 campaign when they finished bottom of the Premier Division and were relegated to Division one. Glastonbury moved to their current home of the Abbymore stadium in 1982. The club would remain in the Western First division until the end of the 1998–99 campaign, with their best season during this time being the 1994–95 competition when they finished as runners-up but were denied promotion as their ground did not meet the standard required for the Premier Division. The 1998–99 campaign saw the club finish eighteenth out of 19 teams and they were relegated to the Somerset County Football League Premier Division.
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