Colne Town Football Club was an English

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

club based in the town of

Colne Colne () is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. Located northeast of Nelson, north-east of Burnley, east of Preston and west of Leeds. The town should not be confused with the unrelated Colne Va ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a Historic counties of England, historic county, Ceremonial County, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significa ...

. They played in the

Lancashire Combination The Lancashire Combination was a football league founded in the North West of England in 1891–92. It absorbed the Lancashire League in 1903. In 1968 the Combination lost five of its clubs to the newly formed Northern Premier League. In 1982 it ...

between 1925 and 1927 and competed in the 1926–27 Extra Preliminary Round of the

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competit ...

History

The team joined the

for the 1925–26 season and finished 16th out of 20 teams in their inaugural season. The following campaign, Colne Town finished 19th in the league and subsequently left the Lancashire Combination. In 1926, they entered the

, the major cup competition in

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, for the only time. However, they were knocked out in the Extra Preliminary Round after losing 1–4 at home to

Clitheroe Clitheroe () is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester. It is near the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for tourists visiting the area. In 2018, the Cl ...

. In June 2010, an unrelated amateur team with the same name was formed in Colne.

Club records

**Highest placing: 16th – 1925–26 *

**Extra Preliminary Round 1926–27

FA Cup result

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colne Town Defunct football clubs in England Lancashire Combination Association football clubs disestablished in 1927 1927 disestablishments in England Defunct football clubs in Lancashire