Great Yarmouth Town F.C.
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| Full name | Great Yarmouth Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Bloaters |
| Founded | 20 July 1897 |
| Ground | Wellesley Recreation Ground, Great Yarmouth |
| Capacity | 3,600 (500 seated) |
| Chairman | Kevin Cruickshank |
| Manager | Martyn Sinclair & Adam Mason |
| League | Eastern Counties League Premier Division |
| 2015–16 | Eastern Counties League Division One, 3rd (promoted) |
Great Yarmouth Town Football Club is a football club based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. They are currently members of the Eastern Counties League Premier Division and play at the Wellesley Recreation Ground, whose grandstand is believed to be the world's oldest football stand still in regular use, having been opened on 11 June 1892. The club is affiliated to the Norfolk County FA.
The club was established on 20 July 1897, taking most of their players from two local clubs, Yarmouth Fearnoughts and Yarmouth Royal Artillery, which between them, had won the Norfolk Senior Cup for the previous four years running. The new club were founder members of the Norfolk & Suffolk League in 1897, and in their first season in existence, they won the Norfolk Senior Cup, beating Lynn Town 4–3 in a replay after a 0–0 draw in the first match. They won the cup again in 1901–02 and retained it in each of the next four seasons, each time defeating Lynn Town in the final. They finished bottom of the Norfolk & Suffolk League in 1903–04, and in 1908–09 the club also entered a team into the East Anglian League, finishing bottom of the table. They finished bottom of the East Anglian League again the following season, but were runners-up in 1911–12 and 1912–13.
Great Yarmouth were expelled from the Norfolk & Suffolk League during the 1912–13 season, but after being reinstated during the close season, the club were league champions in 1913–14. They withdrew from the East Anglian League in 1920. The club won back-to-back Norfolk & Suffolk League titles in 1926–27 and 1927–28, and were runners-up in 1929–30 and 1933–34. In 1935 they were founder members of the Eastern Counties League, and won the League Cup in 1938. In the 1947–48 season the club reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, but lost 4–1 at home to Shrewsbury Town in front of a crowd of 4,160. In 1951–52 they won the East Anglian Cup, and the following season saw them reached the FA Cup first round again, beating Guildford City 1–0 in a replay after a 2–2 draw, before losing 4–1 at home to Wrexham in front of a new record attendance of 6,963. They reached the second round again the following season, beating Crystal Palace 1–0 before another record crowd of 8,944, before losing 5–2 at Barrow.
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