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Swindon Town Football Club is an English football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire. Swindon currently play in League One; the team's home ground is the County Ground, which has an all-seated capacity of 15,728.Consisting of four stands, three home one away.
Since turning professional in 1894, the club has enjoyed short periods of relative success, most notably, during the period 1968–1970 when they won the 1969 League Cup (defeating Arsenal at Wembley Stadium) and also won promotion to the Second Division. League Cup success earned the club its first invitations to European competitions, but instead of going into the UEFA cup the league decreed that the club was too small to enter such a big tournament, so instaed they went into the 1969 Anglo-Italian League Cup and 1970 Anglo-Italian Cup, with Swindon winning both. These wins were led by the clubs talismanic winger and greatest ever player, Don Rogers. Swindon Town also spent the 1993-94 season playing in the Premiership, the only period the club has played in the top level of English football thus far.
Swindon Town are also experienced at playing in the lower leagues, having been relegated to the Fourth Division in 1982, the lowest professional division of The Football League at the time. They eventually left as Champions in 1986 under manager Lou Macari.
Swindon were promoted to League One in 2007, their current manager is former Scotland international Paul Sturrock who took up the post on November 7, 2006.
Since turning professional in 1894, the club has enjoyed short periods of relative success, most notably, during the period 1968–1970 when they won the 1969 League Cup (defeating Arsenal at Wembley Stadium) and also won promotion to the Second Division. League Cup success earned the club its first invitations to European competitions, but instead of going into the UEFA cup the league decreed that the club was too small to enter such a big tournament, so instaed they went into the 1969 Anglo-Italian League Cup and 1970 Anglo-Italian Cup, with Swindon winning both. These wins were led by the clubs talismanic winger and greatest ever player, Don Rogers. Swindon Town also spent the 1993-94 season playing in the Premiership, the only period the club has played in the top level of English football thus far.
Swindon Town are also experienced at playing in the lower leagues, having been relegated to the Fourth Division in 1982, the lowest professional division of The Football League at the time. They eventually left as Champions in 1986 under manager Lou Macari.
Swindon were promoted to League One in 2007, their current manager is former Scotland international Paul Sturrock who took up the post on November 7, 2006.
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