King's Lynn F.C.
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| Full name | King's Lynn Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Linnets |
| Founded | 1879 |
| Dissolved | 2009 |
| Ground | The Walks, King's Lynn |
| Capacity | 5,733 (1,200 seated) |
Coordinates: 52°44′58.6″N 0°24′29.2″E / 52.749611°N 0.408111°E
King's Lynn Football Club was an English association football club based in King's Lynn, Norfolk. The club is said to have been reformed 1879, and they were wound up at the High Court on 25 November 2009 with debts of £77,000 and went out of business in December after a failed appeal. The club was re-formed in January 2010 as Lynn FC and later renamed King's Lynn Town.
It is not known when King's Lynn first had a football club although there is mention of it existing in 1868. . Known locally as Lynn Town, it is said they did not adopt the name King's Lynn until 1953. In 1882–83 they won the Norfolk Senior Cup and went on to win it three more times in the next seven years. In 1897 they were founder members of the Norfolk & Suffolk League and were champions four times before World War I. After the war they won four consecutive titles between 1921–22 and 1924–25. During this period the club also played in the East Anglian League, and were league runners-up in 1908–09
In 1935 Lynn were founder members of the Eastern Counties League. They left in 1946 to join the United Counties League, but returned to the ECL in 1948. During the 1949–50 season they set the league's record attendance of 8,387 for a local derby with Wisbech Town, and also set their own record later in the season when 12,931 saw them play Exeter City in the FA Cup. In 1953–54 they won the league and league cup, and at the end of the season stepped up to the Midland League. Four years later they joined the Southern League when it added a second division. After a transitional season in the South East Division, they qualified for a place in the Premier Division. They were relegated to Division One at the end of the 1961–62 season, but returned to the Premier Division after finishing second in 1963–64. They won four successive East Anglian Cups between 1964–65 and 1967–68, but were relegated again at the end of the 1970–71 season.
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