Mexborough Town Football Club was an English

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club based in

Mexborough Mexborough is a town in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. Situated between Manvers and Denaby Main, it lies on the River Don close to where it joins the River Dearne, and the A6023 road runs through the town. It is contigu ...

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated i ...

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History

Founded in 1962, the club was the third senior club to originate from the town, following in the footsteps of

and

Mexborough Athletic Mexborough Athletic F.C. was an English association football club based in Mexborough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. History The club was formed as Mexborough Town in 1903, and was the second team to take the Mexborough name, the first having be ...

.''The Boro' Matchday Magazine – Mexborough Town AFC programme'', 18 October 1986 They joined the Yorkshire League in their inaugural season, with a runners-up finish securing promotion from Division Two to the league's top flight. They finished runners-up in Division One at the first time of asking, and would enter the

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for the first time the following year. They would again finish as league runners-up in 1969 before finally securing their first Yorkshire League title in 1973. It was around this time that they changed their name to Mexborough Town Athletic, and in 1974 they took the decision to enter teams into both the Yorkshire League and the

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. This arrangement would only last a year, as the club decided to stay solely in the Midland League. In 1982 the Yorkshire League and Midland League merged to form the

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(NCEL), and Mexborough were among the founder members of the new competition, being entered into the Premier Division. They were relegated to Division One in 1985 before changing their name back to Mexborough Town. After finishing bottom of the NCEL Division One in 1991, they resigned from the NCEL to join the

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, but they would last just two years in this competition before resigning and disbanding.

League and cup history

Honours

League

* Yorkshire League Division 1 **Champions: 1972–73 **Runners-up: 1963–64, 1968–69 * Yorkshire League Division 2 **Promoted: 1962–63

Cup

* Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup **Winners: 1963–64, 1974–75, 1976–77, 1982–83 **Runners-up: 1963–64, 1977–78, 1978–79

Records

*Best

performance: 4th qualifying round, 1975–76 *Best

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performance: 3rd round, 1972–73 *Best

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performance: Preliminary round, 1985–86

References

{{reflist Defunct football clubs in England Mexborough Sport in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster Association football clubs established in 1962 Yorkshire Football League Defunct football clubs in South Yorkshire 1962 establishments in England Central Midlands Football League Midland Football League (1889) Northern Counties East Football League