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| Full name | Taunton Town Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Peacocks | ||
| Founded | December 1947 (as Taunton F.C.) | ||
| Ground | Wordsworth Drive, Taunton | ||
| Capacity | 3,000 | ||
| Chairman | Brian Pollard | ||
| Manager | Richard Luffman | ||
| League | Southern League Premier Division South | ||
| 2023–24 | National League South, 22nd of 24 (relegated) | ||
| Website | www.tauntontown.com | ||
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Taunton Town Football Club are an English football club based in Taunton, Somerset. They compete in the Southern League Premier Division South, the seventh tier of the English football league system, and play their home matches at Wordsworth Drive, which they moved into during the 1953 season. The club is affiliated to the Somerset County FA.
After being formed in 1947, they were admitted into the Western League in 1954. They struggled over the next ten years, and it was not until the 1970s that the club started to prosper. Having won the Western League in 1968–69, the club then finished as runners-up in the same league in four successive seasons from 1973. They gained promotion to the Southern League in 1977 and purchased their ground from the local council. In the early 1980s they dropped back down into the Western League for financial reasons, but did not enjoy further success until 1989–90. The following twelve seasons saw the club win the title on four more occasions (1995–96, 1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01) and finish as runners-up four times (1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98 and 2001–02).
In 2001 the club won the FA Vase, which it had narrowly missed out on seven years earlier. Following their string of good results, Taunton rejoined the Southern League for the 2002–03 season. In April 2022, victory over Farnborough saw the club promoted as champions to the National League South, the highest level in the club's history.