Grantham Town Football Club
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Trent Road, Grantham, Lincs
NG31 7XQ
Grantham Town FC (The Gingerbreads) play their home games at the South Kesteven Sports Stadium known locally as The Meres after the name of the playing field with its large number of park pitches that occupied the site prior to the Stadium being built in 1991
The Grantham Football club was founded in 1874. Early competition was in the Midland Amateur league which was won in 1910/11. Prior to the Second World War the club competed in the Central Alliance which was won in 1924/25 and the Midland Counties league where the club finished runners up to Shrewsbury Town in 1938. In the period after the war local legend Jack Macartney became and still remains the clubs leading scorer. By the time he retired in 1955 he had scored 416 goals for the club in just 456 appearance
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