Editing Preston, Lancashire (section)

===Preston North End F.C.===
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[[File:Deepdalecomplete.jpg|thumb|Deepdale Stadium, home of Preston North End F.C.]]
[[File:PrestonNorthEnd1888.jpg|thumb|Preston North End in 1888–89, the first Football League champions, subsequently doing '[[Double (association football)|The Double]]']]
Preston North End F.C. were one of the founder members of [[the Football League]] and the first team to be crowned [[English football champions]].<ref name=PCCPNE20071211>{{cite web|title=Preston North End|url=http://www.preston.gov.uk/Category.asp?cat=1846|publisher=Preston City Council|access-date=29 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118144500/http://www.preston.gov.uk/Category.asp?cat=1846|archive-date=18 January 2008|date=11 December 2007}}</ref> They play at [[Deepdale]] Football Ground which was also the original site of the [[National Football Museum]]. The museum closed in 2011 in preparation for its move to [[Manchester]] due to funding issues.

Preston were champions of the [[Football League]] in its first two seasons, but have not won it since. Their last major trophy came in 1938 when they won the [[FA Cup]], and they have not played top division football since 1961. They are one of the few English league clubs to have been champions of all four tiers of the English professional league.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}}

[[Dick, Kerr's Ladies]], one of the successful early [[Women's football (soccer)|women's football]] teams in Britain, called Preston home, starting in 1917. They were one of the first ladies teams to play an international match against an overseas side when they played against a team from Paris in the spring of 1920. They played a series of matches in the north west of England, and at [[Stamford Bridge (stadium)|Stamford Bridge]], London. The opening match of the tour was played at Deepdale, the home of Preston North End, in front of 25,000 spectators, a record for the ground at that time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dickkerrladies.com/about-the-team|title=TEAM HIGHLIGHTS|website=Dickkerrladies.com}}</ref>