Wombwell Town Football Club is a

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club based in

Wombwell Wombwell () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split between the ward of Wombwell and small sections that fell into the wards of Darfield (specifically the a ...

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Recreation Ground. The club was founded by former

players Karl Rose and Doug O'Connor.

History

The club was formed in 2018, playing at the same Recreation Ground as the previous team of the same name that had folded in 2000. They joined the

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and won the Division Two title at the first attempt in 2019. They were on course for promotion from Division One in both the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons, but both campaigns were cut short owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wombwell won the Division One title in 2022, winning promotion to the Premier Division. In October 2020, the club attracted controversy when they signed

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following his release from prison. A week after Thompson made his debut, the club released a statement to say that Thompson had left the club. The player had been signed as an amateur and received no money from the club. In their first season of County Senior League Premier Division football, Town finished in fifth place, and having been the only team in the league to apply for promotion to step six of the

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, were awarded a place in the

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for the 2023–24 campaign.League line-ups announced by the FA
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Season-by-season record

Ground

The club plays at the Recreation Ground,

Records

*Best

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performance: Extra preliminary round, 2025–26 (ongoing) *Best

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performance: Third round, 2024–25

Honours

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Division Two **Champions: 2018–19 *

Division One **Champions: 2021–22

References

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