GOOLE TOWN FC "oops" GOOLE AFC

Must be a water tower?

Why Goole? Goole A.F.C. played Penistone Church FC this afternoon (in the Northern Counties East League) and lost! A long way (50 MILES) to come for nil points! Goole Football Club was a semi-professional club based in the town of Goole, at Victoria Pleasure Gardens, in East Yorkshire, England. Established in 1912, they folded in 1996. Perhaps Goole's crowning achievement was reaching the FA Cup third round in 1956–57 before going out to Nottingham Forest.

The "old" club was founded in 1912 as Goole Town Football Club when they entered into the Midland Football League. Town played in that league for three seasons, finishing each season respectably and with a highest position of 4th place in 1914–15. That same season, they reached the First Round of the FA Cup, beating Bullcroft Main Colliery away 1-3, Mexborough Town home 1-0, York City 2-0 (after 3 goes), Scunthorpe Utd 1-1 then 5-1, Sutton Town 2-0, Shirebrook  0-2, Chesterfield 2-0 but lost to Middlesbrough 3-9, at Ayresome Park

Play was suspended because of the First World War and Goole did not re-enter the Midland League afterwards. However, just after the war, as Goole Shipyards Football Club, they became founding members of the Yorkshire Football League for the 1920–21 season.

In 1924 the club had reverted to the Goole Town name and were back in the Yorkshire League. By the late 1920s Goole had proved themselves at this level, their pinnacle in this period being their championship-winning season in 1927–28. Goole continued in the Yorkshire League throughout the 1930s and 1940s, picking up the championship during both the 1936–37 and 1947–48 seasons. 

In 1948, Goole Town decided to return to the Midland F.L. which they had not competed in since the start of the First World War. At the end of 1950–51, they finished in 3rd place above the likes of Peterborough Utd and Boston Utd.

For the rest of the 1950s however, Goole lingered in the lower regions of the league, but had one very notable FA Cup run. In the 1956–57 season Goole Town reached the Third Round of the FA Cup, having previously knocked out Wigan Athletic 2–1 away and F.L. 3rd Division North side Workingtion (then a League Club before finally going out to Nottingham Forest.

The 1960s for Goole Town was largely uneventful in the league; the majority of the time they finished around mid-table, with a decent 5th-place finish in 1967–68 being the highlight. That season they had taken Spennymoor Utd to a first round replay in the FA Cup. 

Goole Town became one of the founding members of the Northern Premier League in 1968, where they played against the likes of Macclesfield Town, Scarborough and Stafford Rangers – aa well as Boston Utd and Wigan Athletic. During the first-ever season of the league, they finished in 8th place.

They reached the quarterfinal of the FA Trophy in the 1974–75 season, losing at home to Matlock Town 1–0 before a crowd of 3,500.

The club folded at the end of the 1995–96 season due to financial difficulties. A new club, Goole AFC, was formed in its place in 1997. 

Goole Town's top attendance in any game was against Scunthorpe Utd in the 1949–50 season, when 8,700 packed into the Victoria Pleasure Ground for this important league match.

Tony Galvin was born in Huddersfield and was bought by Spurs in 1978 from the NPL club side Goole Town, he played until 1987 making 201 apps and scoring 20 goals. Tony Currie originated from Goole.

Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1968	Watford	18	(9)
1968–1976	Sheffield United	313	(54)
1976–1979	Leeds United	102	(11)
1979–1982	Queens Park Rangers	81	(5)
1983	Toronto Nationals[1][2]	6	(1)
1983–1984	Southend United	0	(0)
1984	Torquay United	14	(1)
Total		528	(80)
International career
1969–1973	England U23	13	(4)
1972–1979	England	17	(3)