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Longford Town F.C.
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| Full name | Longford Town Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Town or De Town | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1924 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Flancare Park, Longford, County Longford (Capacity 6,000) |
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| Chairman | Jim Hanly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Eircom Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 8th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Longford Town F.C. is an Irish football club playing in the FAI League of Ireland.
The club, founded in 1924 and elected to the league in 1984, hails from Longford, County Longford and play their home matches at Flancare Park. Club colours are red and black, and the club goes by the nickname Town or De Town. The club asked Bohemians for permission to use these club colours in the year they were formed. The story goes that Longford didn't have jerseys for their first game against Bohs and had to use their rivals spare (home) jerseys.
Longford were relegated to the eircom league first division in 2007 and were also cup runners up to Cork City.
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The club is managerless at the moment
- FAI Cups: 2
- Winners: (2) 2003, 2004
- Runners-Up: (1) 2001
- League Cups: 1
- 2004
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