Accrington Stanley F.C.

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Accrington Stanley Football Club is a professional association football club, based in Accrington in Lancashire, England, that competes in the EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system. Ever since its founding, its team have played at the Crown Ground; they traditionally play in red shirts, most often also with red shorts and socks. The club is known as Accrington Stanley, Stanley or just Accrington. The club came to national prominence in 1989 due to a popular television advert for the Milk Marketing Board, which featured the slogan "Accrington Stanley, who are they?". The current club was formed in 1968, two years after the collapse of the original Accrington Stanley. The original club was founded in 1891 and played in the Football League from 1921 to 1962 after initially competing in the Lancashire Combination. The town's original club, named simply Accrington, were founder members of the Football League in 1888, but folded six years later. The current incarnation...

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