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| Full name | Crawley Town Football Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | The Red Devils[1] | |||
| Founded | 1896 | |||
| Ground | Broadfield Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 6,134 | |||
| Coordinates | 51°05′59″N 0°11′41″W / 51.0997°N 0.1948°W | |||
| Owner | WAGMI United | |||
| Chairman | Preston Johnson & Ben Levin (vice-chairman) | |||
| Head coach | Rob Elliot | |||
| League | EFL League One | |||
| 2023–24 | EFL League Two, 7th of 24 (promoted via play-offs) | |||
| Website | http://www.crawleytownfc.com/ | |||
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Crawley Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Crawley, West Sussex, England. The team competes in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system in the 2024–25 season following promotion.
Founded in 1896 as Crawley Football Club, helped to found the West Sussex League later that year before transferring to the Mid-Sussex League. The club disbanded in 1935, but were re-established in the Brighton, Hove & District League three years later. The club switched to the Sussex County League in 1951 and then moved on to the Metropolitan League five years later. In 1958, the club changed its name to Crawley Town Football Club. The club moved from amateur to semi-professional status in 1962 and were accepted into the Southern League the following year. They secured promotion out of Division One in 1968–69, only to suffer relegation the next season.
Crawley were promoted out of the Southern League Southern Section 1983–84 and spent the next 21 seasons in the Premier Division, before winning promotion into the Conference as champions of the Southern League in 2003–04. The club turned fully professional in 2005 but faced immediate financial difficulties and entered administration the following year. The club survived and appointed Steve Evans as a manager in May 2007. Evans led them into the Football League as champions of the Conference in 2010–11 and then secured promotion in their first season in League Two. Crawley spent three seasons in League One before relegation in 2015. After nine seasons in League Two, Crawley won the League Two play-offs in 2024 to earn promotion back to League One. The club has played home games at Broadfield Stadium since 1997 and are nicknamed the "Reds" or "Town" due to the colour of their kit.
- ^ "BBC Sport – Football – Crawley boss Evans calls for focus ahead of FA Cup tie". BBC News. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2011.