Penzance AFC
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| Full name | Penzance Association Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Magpies |
| Founded | 1888 |
| Ground | Penlee Park, Penzance |
| Capacity | 1,100 (550 seated) |
| Chairman | Terry Burgess |
| Manager | Bryn Wheeler |
| League | South West Peninsula League Division One West |
| 2016–17 | South West Peninsula League Division One West, 17th of 18 |
Penzance Association Football Club is a football club based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. They were established in 1888 and were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, and maintained membership of that league until 2007 when they joined the newly formed South West Peninsula League Division One West. In common with many other teams that play in black-and-white stripes, they are nicknamed The Magpies. They currently play in the South West Peninsula League Division One West.
Penzance A.F.C. was founded in 1888, the same year as the Football League was established. They played their first match that season against employees of the Eastern Telegraph Company, based in Porthcurno. The following year, the club was one of the founding members of the Cornwall County Football Association. In the 1892–93 season, the club won the first award of the Cornwall Senior Cup, beating Launceston 5–0 in the final. They missed out on the final in the next two seasons, but then appeared in the following six finals, winning three of those matches. In the first sixteen years of the competition, Penzance making ten appearances in the final, winning six of them and losing four. In five of those appearances, their opponents were Launceston, including four years running from the 1897–98 season. In the 1947–48 season, the club celebrated a double, winning both the Senior Cup, and the Cornwall Charity Cup.
Penzance were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, and participated in the competition throughout its existence until it was merged with the Devon County League to form the South West Peninsula League. They enjoyed mixed success in the competition, winning the League in consecutive seasons in 1955–56 and 1956–57, and then again in 1974–75, before in later years suffering from a series of finishes in the bottom half of the table. They finished bottom of the league in 1986–87, 1990–91 and 1991–82, but were not relegated from the league on any of these occasions. Upon the creation of the South West Peninsula League, Penzance were placed in Division One West due to their position in the previous season's South Western League, when they had finished in sixteenth out of nineteen teams. After finishing eleventh in their first season in the new league, they won the Division in 2008–09, gaining promotion to the Premier Division. They also won the Cornwall Charity Cup, the first county cup they had won since claiming the Senior Cup in 1981.
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