Lancaster City F.C.
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| Full name | Lancaster City Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Dolly Blues, City |
| Founded | Original Club Formed 1911 as Lancaster Town F.C. |
| Ground | Giant Axe, Lancaster |
| Capacity | 3,500 (513 seated) |
| Manager | Philip John Brown |
| League | Northern Premier League Division One North |
| 2015–16 | Northern Premier League Division One North, 6th |
Lancaster City Football Club is an English football club based in Lancaster, Lancashire. The club are currently members of Northern Premier League Division One North and play at Giant Axe.
Following the folding of two Lancaster-based teams, Skerton F.C. and Lancaster Athletic F.C., Lancaster Town F.C. was founded in 1911. They joined Division Two of the Lancashire Combination at the start of the 1911-12 season.
After World War I the Combination was reduced to a single division. The club finished as runners-up in 1919–20, and the following season the club applied to join the new Third Division North of the Football League, but were unsuccessful. However, they won the Combination for the first time in 1921–22. In 1928–29 the club reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, but lost 3–1 at home to Lincoln City. The following year they won the Combination for a second time and reached the FA Cup first round again, losing 4–1 at New Brighton. The first round was reached again in 1930–31, 1931–32 and 1933–34, but the club lost on each occasion. Back-to-back league titles were won in 1934–35 and 1935–36, and in 1937 the club adopted its current name, Lancaster City F.C., after the town was given city status as part of King George VI's coronation celebrations.
The club continued in the Combination until 1970 with varying degrees of success but by the end of the 1960s it was decided that a change was needed so for the 1970-71 season the club left the Combination to join the newly established Northern Premier League, a league that had been formed just two years earlier. After finishing seventeenth in 1981–82 the club resigned from the Northern Premier League and dropped into Division One of the North West Counties League when financial difficulties led them to fold and reform. Two years later they were relegated to Division Two after finishing second from bottom of the league. However, despite only finishing thirteenth in 1987–88, the club were accepted into the new Division One of the Northern Premier League thanks to in no small part to ground standard and support.
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