Preston North End F.C.

Preston North End was founded in 1863, originally as a cricket club, and played their first matches at the Marsh near the River Ribble in the Preston suburb of Ashton. Later that year, they switched to Moor Park in the north of the town, calling themselves "North End" in recognition of the new location. On 21 January 1875, the club leased a field opposite Moor Park on the site of the current Deepdale stadium, which has been its home ever since. The club formed a rugby union team in 1877 as a winter fitness activity but this was not a success and, a year later, they played their first game under the rules of association football. In May 1880, a proposal to fully adopt the association code was unanimously accepted and Preston North End Football Club was officially founded. Preston became one of the first professional clubs by hiring players from Scotland. The players who came from Scotland to play in England in those days were known as the Scotch Professors. In the 1887-88 season, they beat Hyde 26–0 in the first round of the FA Cup, still a record winning margin in English first-class football. Scottish forward Jimmy Ross scored eight goals in the match before going on to score 19 goals in the competition that season, also still a record.

In 1888–89, Preston became the first league champions and the first winners of "The Double", becoming the only team to date to go throughout an entire season unbeaten in both the league and FA Cup – winning the FA Cup without conceding a…

As of 04 February 2025 The following is a list of Preston North End managers since 1986, excluding caretakers:

In 1996, Preston's Third Division title made them the third club to have been champions of each of the top four professional leagues in English football. This feat was previously achieved by Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1988, and Burnley in 1992, and has since been achieved by Sheffield United and Portsmouth both in 2017. League

First Division (level 1) Champions: 1888–89, 1889–90 Runners-up: 1890–91, 1891–92, 1892–93, 1905–06, 1952–53, 1957–58 Second Division (level 2) Champions: 1903–04, 1912–13, 1950–51 Runners-up: 1914–15, 1933–34 Third Division / Second Division / League One (level 3) Champions: 1970–71, 1999–2000 Play-off winners: 2015 Fourth Division / Third Division (level 4) Champions: 1995–96 Runners-up: 1986–87 Cup

FA Cup Winners: 1888–89, 1937–38 Runners-up: 1887–88, 1921–22, 1936–37, 1953–54, 1963–64 FA Charity Shield Runners-up: 1938 Football League War Cup Winners: 1940–41 Lancashire Senior Cup Winners: 1886–87, 1892–93, 1894–95, 1899–1900, 1938–39, 1996–97