Glossop North End A.F.C.
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| Full name | Glossop North End Association Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Hillmen |
| Founded | 1886, as Glossop North End |
| Ground | Arthur Goldthorpe Stadium, Glossop |
| Capacity | 1,350 (209 seated) |
| Chairman | David Atkinson |
| Manager | Chris Willcock |
| League | Northern Premier League Division One North |
| 2015–16 | Northern Premier League Division One North, 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
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| Full name | Glossop North End Ladies Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Hillwomen |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Ground | The Arthur Goldthorpe Stadium, Surrey Street, Glossop |
| Manager | Leanne Pace |
| League | Derbyshire Girls & Ladies League Division One |
| 2015–16 | Derbyshire Girls & Ladies League Division One, 1st (Champions) |
| Website | Club home page |
Glossop North End Association Football Club are an English football club in Glossop, Derbyshire. Formerly members of the Football League, they are currently in the Northern Premier League Division One North and are members of the Derbyshire County Football Association. They play their home matches at Surrey Street, which has a capacity of 1,350 (209 seated, 1,141 standing). The club play in blue, and are known as the Hillmen. Between 1899 and 1992 the club were known as Glossop.
Glossop was, before Rushden & Diamonds and Fleetwood Town, often cited as the smallest town in England to have had a Football League club: it still is the smallest town whose team has played in the English top flight. At the turn of the 20th century, Glossop played in the Football League First Division, the highest level of English football at the time. During this period the club was bankrolled by Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, who was later to become chairman of Arsenal, and the club retains connections with Arsenal to this day.
Glossop North End were founded in 1886, when they played friendly amateur matches. They played at various grounds in the town, including Pyegrove, Silk Street, Water Lane and Cemetery Road before settling at North Road. The club joined the North Cheshire League in 1890, before moving to the Combination in 1894 and turning professional. In their first season in the Combination, 1894–95, they finished as runners-up. After ending the following season, 1895–96, in third, the club moved to the Midland League and in the 1896–97 season finished as runners-up. After a second season in the Midland League, they were elected to the Second Division of the Football League in 1898–99 finishing as runners-up to Manchester City and winning promotion to the First Division. They then changed their name to Glossop (to avoid any confusion with Preston North End) before spending their one and only season in the top flight, 1899–1900 when they finished in last place and were relegated back to the Second Division, having won only 4 matches, all at home, against Burnley, Nottingham Forest, Blackburn and Aston Villa.
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