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Kendal Town F.C.

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After being established, the club were given land at Parkside near the K Shoe factory. Club members paid one pence a week into a sports association, which used the fund to develop the ground. Dressing rooms were built in 1928 and a main stand erected in 1930. Terracing was installed behind one goal
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in the first round in front of a record crowd of 5,184. Later that season they won the Lancashire Combination Cup. The club won the Cup again in 1960–61 and were league runners-up the following season. Another FA Cup run in
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were given a points deduction. After finishing in the bottom four of Division One for the next three seasons, the club were founder members of Division One of the Northern Premier League in 1987.
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saw them finish second-from-bottom of a renamed Division One West and relegated to the Premier Division of the North West Counties League. At the end of the
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The Lancashire Combination title was won by Netherfield for a second time in 1964–65, and their consistent form led to them becoming founder members of the
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Although Netherfield finished bottom of the new division in their first season, they were not relegated. They were renamed
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in 1968. However, after their success in the Lancashire Combination, the club struggled in the new league; the league's
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in a first round replay. They were league runners-up again in 1953–54 and another FA Cup first round appearance the
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the club finished second-from-bottom of the Premier Division, resulting in relegation to Division One North. The
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in 1998, before adopting their current name two years later when Kendal's shoe making industry closed. In
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a fifth-place finish in the Premier Division saw Kendal Town enter the play-offs for a place in the
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the club finished third in Division One, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. After beating
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ended with them finishing in the bottom half of the table for the first time since
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The club was established in 1919 by employees of the Netherfield
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performance: Second round, 1980–81, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2004–05
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2–1 in the final to earn promotion to the Premier Division.
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led to another play-off campaign, this time losing 2–1 to
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Kendal
Northern League
2023–24
North West Counties League
Home colours
Away colours
football
Kendal
Cumbria
Northern League
Somervell Brothers
West Lancashire League
World War II
Lancashire Combination
FA Cup
Barrow
Gateshead
following season
North Shields
Watford
1952–53 FA Cup
Gainsborough Trinity
following season
Wrexham
1955–56 FA Cup
Grimsby Town
1963–64
Loughborough United
Chesterfield

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