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 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club based in the town of

Colne Colne () is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. The town is northeast of Nelson, Lancashire, Nelson, northeast of Burnley and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. The ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

. They played in the

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

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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 parishes in England, civil parish in the Ribble Valley, 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 to ...

. 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