Mansfield Town Football Club is an English association football club based in the Nottinghamshire town of Mansfield. Founded in 1897 as Mansfield Wesleyans, the team first entered the Mansfield & District Amateur League in 1902. Four years later, the club turned professional, tweaked its name to Mansfield Wesley, and joined the Notts & District League. The team made their debut in the FA Cup in 1909–10, and joined the Central Alliance in 1911, by which time the club had adopted its current name of Mansfield Town.For early league positions: In the first post-First World War season, they moved to the Field Mill ground and won the Central Alliance title, and in 1921, they were accepted into the Midland League. Three years later, they won the Midland League title, repeated the feat the following year, and were runners-up the next. Applications for election to the Football League were unsuccessful, but in the hope of a better class of football, they had one season in the Midland Combination, primarily a reserve league for Football League clubs, before returning to the Midland League. In 1928–29, Mansfield won the Midland League title by a nine-point margin and beat two Football League clubs on the way to their first appearance in the fourth round of the FA Cup, in which they lost 2–0 to Arsenal at Highbury.

Geographically, Mansfield lay on the border between the catchment areas of the Northern and Southern sections of the regionalised Third Division of the League. They had previously applied for election to the Northern Section; for the 1931–32 season, they applied to the Southern Section, and were admitted. After one season, in which they struggled, the team was reallocated to the Northern Section, before returning to the Southern in 1937. Competitive football was suspended for the duration of the Second World War. Mansfield finished 22nd and bottom in the first post-war season, and thus had to apply for re-election to the League. The management committee decided that in light of the difficult circumstances facing all clubs in resuming competitive professional football after the war, all clubs facing re-election should be accepted unopposed. Mansfield were transferred to the Northern Section for 1947–48. Three seasons later, they finished runners-upat that time, only the champions were promotedand reached the fifth round (last 16) of the FA Cup for the first time, losing to First Division team and eventual cup finalists Blackpool. Against a background of financial and governance problems that brought the club close to bankruptcy, Mansfield remained in the Northern Section until the regional sections were amalgamated into national Third and Fourth Divisions in 1958, when they were placed in the Third Division.

Two years later, Mansfield were relegated for the first time in their history. In their third season in the fourth tier, they finished fourth and were promoted on goal average, ahead of Gillingham by 0.118 of a goal. After a further nine years in the Thirdduring which time they reached the 1968–69 FA Cup quarter-final, which remains their best achievement in the competitionand three in the Fourth Divisions, Mansfield won their first title at Football League level, taking the 1974–75 Fourth Division by a six-point margin. A season of consolidation, whose highlights included progressing to the quarter-final of the League Cup and the first of two Anglo-Scottish Cup semi-finals, preceded another championship: the 1976–77 Third Division title gained Mansfield promotion to the Football League Second Division for the first and as yet only time. They could not maintain that status, and for the next thirty years continued to drift between third and fourth tiers, during which time they won the 1986–87 Associate Members' Cup, a cup competition open to teams from the lowest two tiers of the League; Mansfield beat Bristol City in a penalty shoot-out in the final. In 2007–08, they finished 23rd in the fourth tier and were relegated out of the Football League into the Conference National (promotion and relegation between League and Conference had replaced re-election in 1987). They reached the final of the 2010–11 FA Trophy, losing to Darlington in the last minute of extra time, before returning to the League as Conference champions in 2013. After two play-off failures in the next ten seasons, Mansfield gained automatic promotion to League One via a third-place finish in the 2023–24 season.

Since their admission to the Football League, Mansfield Town have spent 1 season in the second tier of the English football league system, 42 in the third, 38 in the fourth, and 5 in the top tier of non-league football. The table details the team's achievements in senior first-team competitions and their top league goalscorers (where known) from their debut season in the Mansfield & District Amateur League in 1902–03 to the end of the most recently completed season.

Key

Key to league record: Pld – Matches played W – Matches won D – Matches drawn L – Matches lost GF – Goals for GA – Goals against Pts – Points Pos – Final position

+ Key to colours and symbols:SymbolMeaning 1st or W Winners 2nd or F Runners-up Promoted Relegated ♦ Top league scorer in Mansfield Town's division

Key to divisions: M&D Am – Mansfield & District Amateur League Notts – Notts & District League Cent All – Central Alliance Notts/Derbys – Notts & Derbyshire League Yorks – Yorkshire Football League Div 2 – Football League Second Division Div 3 – Football League Third Division Div 4 – Football League Fourth Division League 1 – EFL League One League 2 – EFL League Two

Key to rounds: Group – Group stage Prelim – Preliminary round QR1 – First qualifying round QR2 – Second qualifying round, etc. Inter – Intermediate round (between qualifying rounds and rounds proper) R1 – First round R2 – Second round, etc. QF – Quarter-final SF – Semi-final F – Final W – Winners (N) – Northern section of regionalised competition (S) – Southern section of regionalised competition

Details of the abandoned 1939–40 Football League season are shown in italics and appropriately footnoted.

Seasons SeasonLeagueFor Notts and Derbyshire League and Central Alliance: FA Cup Individual seasons accessed via dropdown menu.League CupOtherFor Football League Group Cup: For Third Division North and South Cups: and Top league scorer(s)For Football League seasons up to 1995–96, except where individually referenced: Access season required via dropdown menu.From 1996–97 onwards: Select season required via dropdown menu.DivisionPldWDLGFGAPtsPosCompetitionResultPlayer(s)Goals1902–03M&D Am 7th——1903–04M&D Am 3rd——1904–05M&D Am 5th——1905–06M&D Am 3rd——1906–07Notts 6th——1907–08Notts 5th——1908–09Notts/Derbys36196119573444th—461909–10Notts/Derbys34672135811717thQR2——1910–11Notts/Derbys34156136658369thQR4——1911–122261635621211thQR1——1912–13321321750542810thQR3—39 ♦1913–1430671738621915thQR2——1914–15Notts/Derbys26124105256284thPrelim——1915–19Competitive league and FA Cup football was suspended until after the First World War.1919–203019388141411stPrelim——1920–2134186107556425thQR5——1921–22Midland42207156857478thQR5——1922–23Midland421761979644013thQR6——1923–24Midland4231659831681stQR6——1924–25Midland2820448227441stQR4——1925–26Midland402371012054532ndR1——1926–27Mid Comb2415636228362ndR2——1927–28Midland44191114118974910thQR4——1928–29Midland503110913372721stR4——1929–30Midland5025421126985410thR1——1930–31Midland 46191116103954910thR1——1931–32Div 3S42111021751083220thR1—321932–33Div 3N4214721841003516thR1—301933–34Div 3N4211121981883417thR1Third Division North CupSF181934–35Div 3N42199147562478thR3Third Division North CupR1171935–36Div 3N421491980913719thR1Third Division North CupR1261936–37Div 3N42188169176449thR2Third Division North CupR155 ♦1937–38Div 3S421591862673914thR3Third Division South CupR125 ♦1938–39Div 3S4212151544623916thR2Third Division South CupR2121939–40Div 3S3111883—31939–45The Football League and FA Cup were suspended until after the Second World War.1945–46————————R3———1946–47Div 3S429102348962822ndR1—151947–48Div 3N421711145751458thR3—141948–49Div 3N4214141452484210thR3—141949–50Div 3N421812126654488thR2—181950–51Div 3N46261287848642ndR5—161951–52Div 3N46228167360526thR1—211952–53Div 3N4616141655624618thR3—161953–54Div 3N462011158867517thR1—211954–55Div 3N461891965714513thR1—131955–56Div 3N4614112184813918thR2—221956–57Div 3N4617101991904416thR1—191957–58Div 3N462281610092526thR3—231958–59Div 34614131973984120thR1—211959–60Div 3 4615625811123622ndR3—151960–61Div 4461662471783820thR2R1—111961–62Div 4441961977664414thR2R2—201962–63Div 4 462491310869574thR3R2—34 ♦1963–64Div 3462011157662517thR1R2—291964–65Div 3462411119561593rdR2R3—161965–66Div 3461582359893819thR1R3—141966–67Div 3462091784794919thR4R2—221967–68Div 34612132151673720thR1R1—81968–69Div 34616111958624315thR1—131969–70Div 3462111147049536thR5R2—181970–71Div 3461815136462517thR2R2—22 ♦1971–72Div 3 468201841633621stR2R1—181972–73Div 4462014127851546thR1R2—201973–74Div 44613171662694317thR2R1—201974–75Div 4 46281269040681stR5R1—28 ♦1975–76Div 34616151558524711thR2Anglo-Scottish CupSF241976–77Div 3 46288107842641stR2R1—171977–78Div 2 4210112149693121stR4R1—161978–79Div 34612191551524318thR1R1Anglo-Scottish CupSF61979–80Div 3 4610162047583623rdR3R3—191980–81Div 446209175844497thR3R2—91981–82Div 44613102363814720thR1R2—141982–83Div 44616131761706110thR2R1Football League Group CupGroup141983–84Div 44613132066705219thR2R1Associate Members' CupR1(N)211984–85Div 44613181541385714thR2R1Associate Members' CupF(N)91985–86Div 4 462312117447813rdR1R2Associate Members' CupQF(N)161986–87Div 34615161552556110thR1R1Associate Members' CupW161987–88Div 34614122048595419thR4R2Associate Members' CupQF(N)121988–89Div 34614171548525915thR1R1Associate Members' CupPrelim(S)141989–90Div 3461672350655515thR1R2Associate Members' CupR1(S)151990–91Div 3 468142442633824thR3R1Associate Members' CupQF(S)111991–92Div 4 42238117553773rdR1R1Associate Members' CupPrelim(S)26 ♦1992–93 4611112452804422ndR1R1Football League TrophyR1(S)111993–944215101753625512thR1R1Football League TrophyQF(N)111994–95421811138459656thR3R2Football League TrophyR1(N)221995–964611201554645319thR2R1Football League TrophyR1(N)71996–974616161447456411thR2R1Football League TrophyR2(N)61997–984616171364556512thR1R1Football League TrophyQF(N)241998–99461910176058678thR2R1Football League TrophyR2(N)171999–2000461682250655617thR1R1Football League TrophyR2(N)92000–014615131864725813thR1R2Football League TrophyR1(N)192001–02 46247157260793rdR3R1Football League TrophyR2(N)212002–03 461282666974423rdR2R1Football League TrophyR1(N)182003–0446229157662755thR3R1Football League TrophyR1(N)192004–054615151656566013thR1R1Football League TrophyR2(N)112005–064613151859665416thR3R3Football League TrophyR1(N)182006–074614122058635417thR3R2Football League TrophyQF(N)122007–08 461192648684223rdR4R1Football League TrophyR1(N)222008–09461991857556212thR1FA TrophyR192009–10441711166960629thR1FA TrophyR1172010–114617101973756112thR1FA TrophyF132011–1246251478748893rdQR4FA TrophyR1292012–13 46305119252951stR3FA TrophyR125 ♦2013–144615151649586011thR2R1Football League TrophyR2(N)82014–15461392438624821stR2R1Football League TrophyR1(N)72015–164617131661536412thR1R1Football League TrophyR1(N)162016–174617151454506612thR1R1EFL TrophyQF102017–18461818106752728thR3R1EFL TrophyR2152018–19462016106941764thR1R2EFL TrophyR2222019–20369111648553821stR2R1EFL TrophyR2142020–21League 24613191457555816thR3R1EFL TrophyGroup102021–22League 2462211136752777thR3R1EFL TrophyGroup92022–23League 2462112137255758thR3R1EFL TrophyR2102023–24League 2 46241489047863rdR1R4EFL TrophyGroup222024–25League 1461592260735417thR3R1EFL TrophyGroupWill Evans142025–26League 14616171362506510thR5R2EFL TrophyGroupLucas Akins9

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External links Mansfield Town F.C. official website