Worksop Town F.C.
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| Full name | Worksop Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Tigers |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Ground | Sandy Lane |
| Capacity | 2,500 (200 seats) |
| Chairman | Jason Clark |
| Manager | Mark Shaw |
| League | Northern Counties East League Premier Division |
| 2015–16 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division, 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
Worksop Town F.C. is an English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. They play in the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East League at level 9 of the English football league system. They are nicknamed the Tigers, and usually sport an amber and black home kit.
The club are currently playing their home games at Handsworth Parramore's Sandy Lane ground – a ground Worksop used to own themselves.
The club claims to have been founded in 1861, which would make it the fourth oldest football club in the world, however the only evidence to back up this claim is from a 1911 newspaper article. The first time football was played in the town was in 1873, when a group of 15 male Worksopians took on 15 from a local church. The first recorded usage of the Worksop Town name came in 1882, when a team using that name played Eckington on 18 February
They joined the Sheffield & District Football League in 1892 and also played in the Sheffield Association League during the late 1890s after an unsuccessful one-year stint in the Midland League.
Worksop rejoined the Midland League in 1900 and would become prominent members of the competition before the First World War. They finished as high as 3rd in the league in 1903, and in 1908 they reached the 1st Round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1–9 at Stamford Bridge to Chelsea in front of 18,995 spectators.
After taking a break from football during World War I, Worksop re-joined the Midland League and in 1921 won the competition for the first time. The 1920s prvoided the club with their best spell in the FA Cup, reaching the 1st Round in four out of six seasons from 1921. In 1923 they drew Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane – the Tigers pulled off a shock by holding Spurs to goal-less draw. The Worksop board decided against hosting the replay at Central Avenue, and they were beaten 0–9 in the replay two days after the original tie, again at White Hart Lane. In 1926 they reached the 2nd Round for the first time after beating Coventry City at Central Avenue in the 1st Round – eventually losing by the odd goal in three to Chesterfield in the next round.
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