Nickname(s) The Wakes Manager Jimmy McConnel | Ground Capacity 2,000 Founded 1883 | |
Full name Bourne Town Football Club Chairman Steve Elger & Darren Munton League United Counties Football League Division One | ||
Bourne Town Football Club is a football club based in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. They are currently members of the United Counties League Division One and play at Abbey Lawn.
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History
The club was established in 1883. The first league they played in was the Peterborough & District League, in which they were Division One champions in 1933–34, 1945–46 and 1946–47. After their third title they joined the United Counties League. However, they struggled in the new league, finishing second-from-bottom in 1948–49 and 1949–50, bottom in 1953–54 and second-from-bottom again in 1954–55 and 1955–56. After leaving the league in 1956, they rejoined the Peterborough & District League, before switching to Division One South of the Central Alliance in 1958.
Bourne won Division One South in 1959–60, and in 1961 they joined the newly-reformed Midland League. After finishing second-from-bottom in 1964–65, they returned to the United Counties League, and were placed in Division One. They finished as runners-up in their first season back in the league, and went on to win back-to-back league titles in 1968–69 and 1969–70, also winning the Knock-Out Cup in the latter season. A third title was won in 1971–72, after which Division One was renamed the Premier Division. The club won the league for a fourth time in 1990–91, a season which also saw them win the league's Benevolent Cup. They remained in the Premier Division until the end of the 2009–10 season, when they were relegated to Division One.
Ground
The club plays its home fixtures at Abbey Lawn on Abbey Road.