Darwen F.C. are a football club from Darwen in the north west of England. The team, formed in 1870, currently play in the Second Division of the North West Counties League. Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Confederation of African Football (CAF) Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) The Current Laws of the Game (LOTG) The Rec. ... b Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Darwen Borough Council Darwen (from the Celtic: dwr-gwyn or derva (Darren in Lancashire dialect) is a small market town in Lancashire, England. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the north west of England. ...

Darwen F.C. was established as a football and cricket club, and began to play by Association rules in 1875. A cricket match in progress. ... The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England (and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man). ...

They caused controversy in the 1879 FA Cup with the selection of two Scottish players Fergie Suter and Jimmy Love from Glasgow with one London amateur club even proposing that "no side which does not consist entirely of amateurs, as defined by the rules to be drawn up by the committee, be entitled to compete in the Challenge Cup competition". The motion was defeated and Darwen travelled down to the Oval three times to play the great amateur side Old Etonians in the quarter-final, drawing 5-5 and 2-2 before losing 6-2 in the second replay. Fergus Suter, Blackburn Rovers full-back, from 1880 to 1889 Fergus Suter (or Fergie Suter) was a former stonemason and footballer in the early days of the game in the United Kingdom during the 19th century. ... An oval or ovoid was originally an egg shape (from Latin OVVM); it is now usually used to refer to ellipses, but can also mean any similar shape, such as egg shapes or race-course shapes (a semicircle on either side of a quadrilateral). ... This is a category of alumni of Eton College, known as Old Etonians. Subcategories There is 1 subcategory to this category. ...

The following year, a regulation that ruled that the final three rounds were to be played in London was changed and entries were grouped by region after complaints from northern clubs about the unfairness of travelling.

They were a Football League club between the years 1891 and 1899, in total spending eight seasons in league football. Six of these were in the Second Division, and only two in the top flight. They are famous chiefly for having suffered 18 consecutive league defeats, during their last season as a league club in 1898-99. Sunderland narrowly managed to avoid equalling this unwanted record in 2003, when they beat Preston North End 2-0 at Deepdale. The Football League is an organisation representing 72 professional football clubs in England and Wales, and runs the oldest professional football league competition in the world. ... Sunderland Association Football Club (Sunderland AFC or SAFC) is an English Premiership football club, based at the newly-built Stadium of Light in Sunderland, on the River Wear in the North-East of England. ... Preston North End Football Club is a professional English football team. ... Deepdale is a stadium in Preston, England, the home of Preston North End F.C. and Englands National Football Museum. ...

Darwen also hold the record for the heaviest league defeat in a First Division match: 12-0 away to West Bromwich Albion in the 1891-92 season. They are also believed to be the first club to install electric floodlights as well as employing football's first two professional players. West Bromwich Albion Football Club is an English football club formed by workers from Salters Spring Works in West Bromwich, West Midlands in 1878. ... Modern stage lighting is a flexible tool in the production of theatre, dance, opera and other performance arts. ...

History

• 1880-81 - F.A. Cup semi-finalists (after beating Romford 15-0 in quarter-finals)
• 1889-90 - Founder member of Football Alliance
• 1891-92 - Elected into Football League
• 1892-93 - Not re-elected into First Division, but elected as a founder member of Football League Division Two. Promoted after Test Match
• 1893-94 - Relegated after Test Match
• 1899 - Did not seek re-election to Football League
• 1899-00 - Joined Lancashire League
• 1901-02 - Lancashire League Champions
• 1902-03 - Lancashire League runner-up (on goal average)
• 1903-04 - Joined Lancashire Combination Division One
• 1905-06 - Lancashire Combination runner-up
• 1909 - Relegated to Division Two
• 1914 - Left Lancashire Combination
• 1920-21 - Rejoined Lancashire Combination
• 1930-31 - Lancashire Combination Champions
• 1931-32 - Lancashire Combination Champions (2nd time)
• 1963 - Relegated to Division Two
• 1965-66 - Promoted to Division One
• 1967 - Relegated to Division Two
• 1967-68 - Lancashire Combination Division Two runner-up
• 1971-72 - Lancashire Combination Champions (3rd time)
• 1973-74 - Lancashire Combination runner-up (on goal average)
• 1974-75 - Lancashire Combination Champions (4th time)
• 1975-76 - Joined Cheshire County League
• 1982-83 - Founder members of North West Counties League
• 1984 - Relegated to Division Two
• 1984-85 - Escaped relegation due to Padiham having 2 points deducted
• 1986-87 - Promoted to Division One
• 1998 - Demoted to Division Two due to ground gradings

• Best league position: 14th (of 14) in (only division) Football League, 1891-92; or 15th of 16 in 1893-94 in the 1st Division of the Football League.
• Best (post-war) league position: 5th in North-West Counties League (then level 8), 1988-89
• Best FA Cup performance: semi-final, 1880-81. (Post-war: 4th qualfiying round, 1946-47)
• Best FA Trophy performance: 2nd round replay (three times) in 1972-73, 1978-79 and 1981-82.
• Best FA Vase performance: 3rd round 1990-90

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Honours

• Lancashire Combination champions 1931, 1932
• Lancashire League champions 1902

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External link

• Darwen Football Club, the early years