Spilsby - Sports and Recreation

Sports and Recreation

  • Spilsby Town F.C. is a football club that was formed in 1881. The first team currently play in the Boston Cropleys Suzuki Premier Division. The Reserve team play in the first division. The league is not officially a member of the English football league system but clubs have in recent years moved up to the Lincolnshire Football League and then the Central Midlands League or United Counties League (the 12th level of the football league pyramid).

Spilsby Town are 3 times winners of the Lincolnshire Senior Cup in 1881-82, 1882–83 and 1883-84. The 1881-82 team consited of: John Southby, C. Miller, H. R. Bellamy, John Searby, R. Driffield, H. Shaw, J. H. Barrat (captain), H. Robinson, B. Robinson, H. Allington, H. S. Mawer.

Between 1880 and 1885 Spilsby Town would enter the FA Cup each year yet they were never able to progress beyond the first round.

  • Spilsby Sports Pavilion and Playing Fields Ancaster Avenue, Spilsby.
  • Spilsby Juniors Football Club Spilsby Juniors was started during the summer of 1998 when the Mid-Lincolnshire youth football league accepted an application to enter a single Under-12 team in that year's Division C. The club expanded and now runs four teams from Under-9s to Under-14s.
  • Spilsby Bowls Club
  • Spilsby Hockey Club

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