Guiseley A.F.C.
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| Full name | Guiseley Association Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Lions |
| Founded | 1909 |
| Ground | Nethermoor Park |
| Capacity | 4,200 (500 seated) |
| Chairman | Phil Rogerson |
| Manager | Adam lockwood |
| League | National League |
| 2015–16 | National League, 20th |
| Website | Club home page |
Guiseley Association Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, England. The club plays in the National League, the fifth tier of English football. Guiseley has played its home matches at Nethermoor Park since its foundation in 1909. In the 2014–15 season, Guiseley achieved promotion to the National League for the first time in their history.
Founded in 1909 by a local group of enthusiasts, the club's first success came in 1913 when they won the local Wharfedale League. Following the end of the First World War the club switched to the Leeds League, achieving little until 1924 when another switch, to the West Riding County Amateur Football League, eventually brought success. A treble of league championships followed in the 1930s as well as two appearances in the last 16 of the old F.A. Amateur Cup, against South Bank in 1932 and Cambridge Town (now City) in 1934.
A fourth league title was won in 1939, after which seventeen years were to elapse before the fifth, achieved in 1956. It was followed by another switch, to the West Yorkshire League, which heralded a remarkable run of success in the local Wharfedale Challenge Cup, the trophy being won on nine out of ten occasions in the 1960s.
They joined Division Two of the Yorkshire League in 1968 and were relegated to the newly formed Third Division in 1970. Having returned to the Second Division at the first attempt, they gained promotion to the First Division in 1974. Relegated from their first season, they return the following year as Yorkshire League Division Two Champions. They were Yorkshire League Runners-up in 1980 and 1982.
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