Pershore Town Football Club (generally known simply as Pershore Town) are an

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club based in

Pershore Pershore is a market town in the Wychavon district in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. The town is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2011 census, the population was 7,125. The town is ...

, Worcestershire,

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, and are members of the .

History

The club was established in 1988 by the merger of three clubs, Pershore United, Pershore Rec. Rovers and junior club Pershore Bullets. The new club joined the Midland Football Combination in 1989, initially in Division Two, where they were champions at the first attempt. The following season they were promoted again, this time to the Premier Division. In the 1993–94 season, they were crowned Midland Combination Premier Division champions and also reached the final qualifying round for the

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which saw them featured on the BBC before their 3–1 loss at home to

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. After their title win, they were among the founder members of the newly formed

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, where they spent six seasons before succumbing to relegation back to the Midland Combination Premier Division. In 1998, Pershore Town absorbed Worcester Athletico. For the 2019–20 season, the club applied to join the

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but were instead placed in the

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. However, at the end of the 2020–21 season, they were transferred to Division One of the Hellenic League. The club were promoted to the Hellenic Premier Division as Champions in the 2022–23 season.

Club records

*Best league performance: 1st in

, 2022―23 *Best

performance: 4th qualifying round, 1993–94 *Best

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performance: 3rd round proper, 1995–96

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