Peterborough United Football Club is a professional Football Association club based in the town in Cambridgeshire, England. The club has spent its entire history at London Road and is nicknamed "The Posh". The team now competes in League One, the third level of the EFL. Peterborough United formed in 1934 and joined the Midland League. Having won the Midland League title for five seasons in a row from 1955 to 1959, they were elected into the Football League in 1960. Peterborough immediately won the Fourth Division title in 1960–61, scoring a Football League Record, 134 goals.
On 29th April 1961 A 15,318 London Road crowd saw Peterborough United beat Barrow 6-2 in their final Division Four match of the season. Not only did Posh top the division in their first Football League season but those six goals saw the club complete the season with a record 134 League goals. Terry Bly scored a hat-trick against Barrow to finish the season with 52 League goals, a post-war League best. Terry scored a record number of goals during the 1960–61 season but went on to score 87 goals in 101 appearances for the Club. See photo below.
The club has played its home games at Anfield since its formation. Liverpool is one of the most valuable and widely supported clubs in the world. Domestically, Liverpool a joint joint record of twenty league titles, eight FA Cups, a record ten League Cups and sixteen FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—(all English records)—and one FIFA Club World Cup!!
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