Darwen F.C.
Darwen F.C. is a football club from Darwen in the North West of England, who currently play in the Second Division of the North West Counties League. The club was formed in about 1870 as a football and cricket club and began to play by Association rules in 1875.
They were a Football League club between the years 1891 and 1899, in total spending eight seasons in league football. Six of these were in the Second Division, and only two in the top flight. They are famous chiefly for having suffered 18 consecutive league defeats, during their last season as a league club in 1898/99. Sunderland narrowly managed to avoid equalling this unwanted record in 2003, when they beat Preston North End 2-0 at Deepdale.
Darwen also hold the record for the heaviest league defeat in a First Division match: 12-0 away to West Bromwich Albion in the 1891/92 season.
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