Lewes FC
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| Full name | Lewes Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Rooks |
| Founded | 1885 |
| Ground | The Dripping Pan, Lewes |
| Capacity | 3,000 (600 seated) |
| Chairman | Stuart Fuller |
| Manager | Darren Freeman |
| League | Isthmian League Division One South |
| 2015–16 | Isthmian League Premier Division, 23rd (Relegated) |
| Website | Club home page |
Lewes Football Club is an English football club based in Lewes, East Sussex, who play at The Dripping Pan. For the 2016-17 season, the club will be members of the Isthmian League Division One South.
Lewes Football Club was formed at a meeting at a local pub (The Royal Oak) in 1885 and initially wore green shirts designed to evoke the surrounding South Downs. The present red and black kit was adopted in 1893.
Having won the championship of the Mid Sussex League twice before World War I. After the first World War the club played in the Brighton, Hove & District Football League, until the end of the 1919–20 season when they became one of the founder members of Sussex County Football League. They were runners-up on four occasions but it was not until 1964–65 that they were finally able to win the championship, after which they stepped up to the Athenian League.
After winning the Division 2 title in 1968, promotion to the Premier Division followed just two years later when the club won the Division 1 title.
In 1977 Lewes joined the newly expanded Isthmian League, initially in Division 2. Promotion to Division 1 came in 1980 but in 1991 the Rooks were relegated. They bounced back at the first attempt but could only manage one season at this level before two successive relegations saw them in Division 3, where they actually finished second from bottom of the entire league on two occasions.
During the 1998–99 season Jimmy Quinn joined the club as manager and the club soon claimed two consecutive promotions, taking them to the Isthmian League Division One South.
After Steve King took over as manager, in the 2003–04 season they were champions of this division and stepped up to the unprecedented heights of the Conference South after a busy schedule of playoffs at the end of the season, in effect jumping two divisions.
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