Editing Accrington (section)

===Football team===
{{main|Accrington Stanley F.C.}}

[[Accrington Stanley F.C.]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/ |title=Accrington Stanley F.C. |access-date=29 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130325190530/http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/ |archive-date=25 March 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> entered the [[Football League]] in 1921 with the formation of the old [[Third Division (North)]]; after haunting the lower reaches of English football for forty years, they eventually resigned from the League in 1962, due to financial problems, and folded in 1965. The club was reformed three years later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the [[Football Conference|Nationwide Conference]] in 2003. In the 2005–06 season, Stanley, after winning against [[Woking F.C.|Woking]] with three matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team. One of the teams relegated— and thus being replaced by Stanley—were [[Oxford United F.C.|Oxford United]], who was voted into the Football League to replace the previous Accrington Stanley. The football stadium is called the Crown Ground. Until the 2012–13 season, when [[Fleetwood Town F.C.|Fleetwood Town]] entered the league, Accrington was the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.<ref>[http://www.lovemytown.co.uk/FootballTeams/FootballTeamsTable5.asp Towns Represented in League Two 2007-8]</ref>

Accrington Stanley Football Club has had its own [[Public house|pub]] in the town, the Crown, since July 2007.<ref>[http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/index.php/commercial/crown http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/index.php/commercial/crown] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20120730053902/http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/index.php/commercial/crown |date=30 July 2012 }} ''Accringtonstanley.co.uk''</ref>

====Team history====
An earlier club, [[Accrington F.C.]], was one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888. However, their time in league football was even less successful and considerably briefer than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893 and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems. The town of Accrington thus has the unique "distinction" of having lost two separate clubs from league football. [[Accrington Stanley F.C.]] are currently placed in [[EFL League Two]] after being relegated from [[EFL League One]] in the 2022/23 season, having finished 23rd.