Glossop North End A.F.C.

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Glossop North End Association Football Club is a football club in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, which competes in the North West Counties League Premier Division. The club was founded in February 1886. Between 1899 and 1992 the club was officially known as Glossop. The team's current home ground, since 1955, is at Surrey Street in Glossop; the colour of their home kit is blue, and they are nicknamed the Hillmen (previously also as the Peakites). Four years after its formation the club joined the North Cheshire League for three seasons and was league champion in 1893–94. It then spent two seasons each in The Combination and the Midland League. Between 1898 and 1915 the club was a member of the Football League. The team played in the First Division for one season, 1899–1900, making the town of Glossop the smallest whose team has played in the English top flight. During this period the club chairman and benefactor was Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, who later became chairman of Arsenal. In the 1914...

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