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Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional
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club in
Preston, Lancashire Preston () is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire and the wider City of Preston, Lancashire, City of Preston local government district. Preston ...
, England. They currently play in the
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, the second level of the
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. Originally a
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club, PNE has been based at
Deepdale Deepdale is a football stadium in the Deepdale area of Preston, England that is the home ground of Preston North End. Built in 1875 and in use since 1878, Deepdale is recognised as being one of the oldest continuously used football stadium ...
since 1875. The club first took up football in 1878 as a winter fitness activity, and decided to focus on it in May 1880, when the football club was officially founded. Deepdale is now football's oldest ground in terms of continuous use by a league club. Preston North End was a founder member of the
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in 1888. In the 1888–89 season, the team won both the inaugural league championship and the
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, the latter without conceding a goal. They were the first team to achieve the "
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" in English football and, as they were unbeaten in all matches, are remembered as " The Invincibles". Preston won the league championship again in 1889–90 but their only major success since then has been their 1938 FA Cup final victory over
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. The club's most famous players have been Sir Tom Finney, Alan Kelly Sr. and
Bill Shankly William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish association football, football player and Manager (association football), manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool F.C., Liverpool. Shankly brought su ...
, who are all commemorated at Deepdale by stands named after them. Until 1961, Preston were usually members of the
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but, having been relegated after the 1960–61 season, they have not yet returned to the top flight. They were first relegated to the Third Division after the 1969–70 season and have spent 28 of the 49 seasons since 1970 in the bottom two divisions of the Football League, including a span of 19 seasons from 1981–1982 to 1999–2000. Preston has faced serious financial issues and was twice in danger of closure. The club was owned by businessman
Trevor Hemmings Trevor James Hemmings (11 June 1935 – 11 October 2021) was a British billionaire businessman. Early life Hemmings was born in Woolwich, London, on 11 June 1935, the son of a Royal Ordnance worker. During the Second World War, part of the Ro ...
until his death in October 2021 and has been in the EFL Championship since gaining promotion in 2015, with a highest finishing position since then of 7th ( 2017–18).


History

Preston North End was founded in 1863, originally as a
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club, and played their first matches at the Marsh near the
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in the Preston suburb of Ashton. Later that year, they switched to Moor Park in the north of the town, calling themselves "North End" in recognition of the new location. On 21 January 1875, the club leased a field opposite Moor Park on the site of the current
Deepdale Deepdale is a football stadium in the Deepdale area of Preston, England that is the home ground of Preston North End. Built in 1875 and in use since 1878, Deepdale is recognised as being one of the oldest continuously used football stadium ...
stadium, which has been its home ever since. The club formed a
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team in 1877 as a winter fitness activity but this was not a success and, a year later, they played their first game under the rules of association football. In May 1880, a proposal to fully adopt the association code was unanimously accepted and Preston North End Football Club was officially founded. Preston became one of the first professional clubs by hiring players from Scotland. The players who came from Scotland to play in England in those days were known as the
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. In
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, they beat Hyde 26–0 in the first round of the FA Cup, still a record winning margin in English first-class football. Scottish forward Jimmy Ross scored eight goals in the match before going on to score 19 goals in the competition that season, also still a record. In 1888–89, Preston became the first league champions and the first winners of " The Double", becoming the only team to date to go throughout an entire season unbeaten in both the league and
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 – winning the FA Cup without conceding a goal.In 2003–04,
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also achieved an unbeaten season in the top flight, but they went out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage.
The team did so with a majority of their team being made up of Scottish players (the
Scotch Professors The Scotch Professors were Scottish football players of the late 19th century who moved south to play for clubs participating in the English Football League during the period when football had become professional in England but remained (theoreti ...
). In a contribution to Paul Agnew's 1989 biography of
Tom Finney Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England' ...
, the player himself wrote: "The club has long been known as Proud Preston, and the Old Invincibles of the previous century set some incredible standards". The author wrote elsewhere: "...and that team became immortalised as the 'Old Invincibles'". Other sources call the team "The Invincibles" and both versions of the nickname have been used. In his autobiography, Finney wrote: "The championship stayed with North End — by now tagged the Old Invincibles — the following year, but runners-up spot had to suffice for the next three seasons". As Finney said, Preston were league champions again in 1889–90, but have not won the title since. In total, they have been league runners-up six times, including the three consecutive seasons from 1890-91 to 1892–93, and twice in the 1950s when Finney was playing. The club's last major trophy win was in the 1938 FA Cup Final when they defeated
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1–0 and the team included
Bill Shankly William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish association football, football player and Manager (association football), manager who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool F.C., Liverpool. Shankly brought su ...
,
Andy Beattie Andrew Beattie (11 August 1913 – 20 September 1983) was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He was the first manager of the Scotland national team. Playing career Beattie was born in Kintore, Aberdeenshire and was emplo ...
and goalscorer
George Mutch George Mutch (21 September 1912 – 30 March 2001) was a Scottish footballer. He played as an inside forward. Born in Aberdeen, Mutch started his football career with Avondale before joining Banks O' Dee. He then moved on to Arbroath, and sign ...
. Preston's most famous player,
Tom Finney Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England' ...
, joined the club as a teenager in 1938. His first team debut was delayed until 1946 by the
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but he played for Preston until he retired in 1960. He was nicknamed the "Preston Plumber" because of his local business. Finney remains the club's top goalscorer, with 187 goals from 433 appearances, and also scored 30 international goals for
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in 76 appearances. A year after Finney's retirement, Preston were relegated to the Second Division and have not played in the top division since. They had a memorable season in 1963–64 when, managed by former player Jimmy Milne, they finished third in the Second Division and reached the 1964 FA Cup Final where they lost a thrilling match 3–2 to
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. Preston were first relegated to the Third Division after the 1969–70 season. Although they won promotion again immediately, the team have spent 28 of the 49 seasons since 1970 in the bottom two divisions, including a span of 19 seasons from 1981-82 to 1999–2000. The club experienced a near-terminal decline in the 1980s which brought about the very real threat of closure, the nadir being the 1985–86 season when they finished 23rd in the Fourth Division and had to seek re-election to the league. Under manager John McGrath, the team recovered and won promotion back to the Third Division only a year later but it was a false dawn as the team spent another three years in the bottom division from 1993 to 1996. The club finally began to recover and move forward after a takeover by heating manufacturer
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in 1994 but their ownership ended in June 2002. The team's central defender
David Moyes David William Moyes (born 25 April 1963) is a Scottish professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Association football, player, who currently manages Premier League club Everton F.C., Everton. He was the 2003, 200 ...
, then aged 34, began his managerial career when appointed by the Baxi-controlled board in February 1998. Moyes was successful and managed the team to the third tier championship in 2000. Preston reached the 2001 play-off final but were defeated by
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. In the 2005 play-off final, under Moyes' successor
Billy Davies William McIntosh Davies (born 31 May 1964) is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager. He won the 2007 Play-offs with Derby County, finished as runners-up in 2005 with Preston North End, and reached the semi-finals in 2006 (Prest ...
, Preston were beaten 1–0 by West Ham United. Following the Baxi sell-off and the departure of Moyes to Everton in 2002, the team was established at second-tier level through the 2000s but more problems arose at the end of the decade with an
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winding-up order in 2010 and relegation to the third tier in 2011. The taxation issue was resolved by local businessman
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, already a shareholder, who bought a controlling interest in June 2010. The team were promoted again, via the play-offs, in 2015 and have remained in the
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since then, with a highest finishing position of 7th in the 2017–18 season. Preston North End reached the 2024–25 FA Cup quarter-finals but they lost 3–0 against
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at
Deepdale Deepdale is a football stadium in the Deepdale area of Preston, England that is the home ground of Preston North End. Built in 1875 and in use since 1878, Deepdale is recognised as being one of the oldest continuously used football stadium ...
.


Ground

Deepdale was the original cricket club's home from 1875 and has been a football venue from 1878. It is the world's oldest football ground in terms of continuous use by a club in a major league. The biggest attendance seen was 42,684 for a Division One clash with Arsenal in April 1938. When Baxi took control, it embarked on an investment programme between 1996 and 2009 with the aim of upgrading Deepdale into a modern stadium. The old ground was demolished and rebuilt in four stages and the last of the new stands was opened in 2008. The stadium has a seated capacity of 23,404. The current pitch dimensions are 110 x 75 yards. Part of the Baxi-funded redevelopment was the original
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which opened at Deepdale in 2001, but it was relocated to Manchester in 2012 after being closed for two years.


Statue

Outside the Sir Tom Finney Stand is a statue of the famous player himself, which is known as "The Splash" or the "Tom Finney Splash". The statue, sculpted by Peter Hodgkinson and unveiled in July 2004, was inspired by a famous photograph taken at the Chelsea versus Preston game in 1956, played at Stamford Bridge in particularly wet conditions.


1913 terrorist incident

An attempt was made to destroy the ground in 1913. As part of the
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,
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carried out a series of bombings and arson attacks nationwide during their campaign for women's suffrage. In April 1913, suffragettes attempted to burn down Deepdale's grandstand but were foiled. In the same year, suffragettes succeeded in burning down
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's then South London stadium, and also attempted to burn down
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' ground. More traditionally male sports were targeted in order to protest against male dominance.


Sponsorship and kits

Preston North End have traditionally worn white shirts with blue shorts for their home kit, with yellow being a common colour for Preston's away kit. The club's main sponsors, since shirt sponsorship was introduced in 1979, have been as follows:


Rivalries

Historically, Preston North End's main rivalry is with
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— the two clubs' grounds being seventeen miles apart — and the
West Lancashire derby The West Lancashire derby (sometimes also known as the '' M55 derby'') is a local rivalry in English football between Lancashire clubs Blackpool and Preston North End. The derby has taken place across all four tiers of English football, but not ...
between the two clubs has been contested 96 times across all four divisions of the
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and cup competitions since 1901. Preston's other local rivals in the league over the years include
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,
Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...
,
Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...
and
Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in the EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system. Founded in 1932, they have p ...
.


Players


Current squad


Out on loan


Former players


Technical staff

Below is a list of non-playing personnel:


Managerial history

The following is a list of Preston North End managers since 1986, excluding caretakers:


Club records

*Most Goals (Overall):
Tom Finney Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England' ...
, 210 goals from 473 appearances. *Most League Goals: Tom Finney, 187 goals from 433 appearances. *Most Appearances (Overall): Alan Kelly, Sr., 511 appearances (between 1958 and 1973). *Most League Goals in a Season:
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, 37 in
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, 1932–33 *Record Attendance: 42,684 v
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,
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, 23 April 1938 *Record Cup Victory: 26–0 v Hyde, FA Cup, 15 October 1887 *Record League Victory: 10–0 v
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,
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, 14 September 1889 *Record Defeat: 0–7 v
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, Division 1, 1 May 1948 *Transfer Record (Paid): £2,130,000 for Milutin Osmajić from
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, August 2023 *Transfer Record (Received): £10,000,000 for
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to West Ham Utd, January 2018 *Youngest Ever Player: Ethan Walker 16 years and 156 days *Oldest Ever Player: Bob Kelly 41 years and two months


Honours

In 1996, Preston's Third Division title made them the third club to have been champions of each of the top four professional leagues in English football. This feat was previously achieved by
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in 1988, and
Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B ...
in 1992, and has since been achieved by
Sheffield United Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The club competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. They are nicknamed "the Blades" due to Sheffield's history ...
and
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both in 2017. League *
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(level 1)Up until 1992, the top division of
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was the
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; since then, it has been the
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. Similarly until 1992, the Second Division was the second tier of league football, when it became the First Division, and is now known as The Championship. The third tier was the Third Division until 1992, and is now known as League One.
**Champions: 1888–89, 1889–90 **Runners-up: 1890–91, 1891–92, 1892–93, 1905–06, 1952–53, 1957–58 * Second Division (level 2) **Champions: 1903–04, 1912–13, 1950–51 **Runners-up: 1914–15, 1933–34 * Third Division / Second Division / League One (level 3) **Champions: 1970–71, 1999–2000 **Play-off winners:
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* Fourth Division / Third Division (level 4) **Champions: 1995–96 **Runners-up: 1986–87 Cup *
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**Winners: 1888–89, 1937–38 **Runners-up: 1887–88, 1921–22, 1936–37, 1953–54, 1963–64 *
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**Runners-up:
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*
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**Winners: 1940–41 *
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**Winners: 1886–87, 1892–93, 1894–95, 1899–1900, 1938–39, 1996–97


Women's football

The previously affiliated
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team was called Preston North End W.F.C. In May 2016, they became Fylde Ladies F.C., in association with
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side
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.


References


External links

*
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on
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online site
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History of Preston North End: 1862–1945

Online video footage of Preston North End winning the 1938 FA Cup
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