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Today’s
visitors
Launceston
becoming Division
2 champions in
1928/29.
The first Launceston Association Football
Club was founded in 1891 and started
their football days in fine style when only
the following year they appeared in the
first ever Cornwall Senior Cup Final, after
winning the Eastern Division title.
The Club went on
to dominate the
P&D league in the mid-fifties winning the
title for three successive seasons from
1955/56 to 1957/58. They only lost one
home game during this time and scored
an amazing total of 447 goals. They
became one of only a few Cornish clubs
to win a Devon County FA Trophy in
1957/58 when they won the Devon Senior
Victory Cup.
It was not to be the Clarets year for the
title however, as Penzance lifted the
trophy after a 5-1 victory.
The following seven years saw four more
Senior Cup Final appearances, and in 1899
Launceston lifted the trophy for the first
time, gaining revenge on Penzance by
beating them 1-0.
Launceston were elected to the South
Western League in 1958 and beat St
Blazey 10-2 in their first game.
They made it two in a row the following
year when they beat Penzance once
again, this time 5-0.
Finances forced a withdrawal from the
league in 1965 and they entered the East
Cornwall Premier League.
In the early 1900s the Club played in the
Cornish and Devon League with Bude,
Holsworthy and Camelford but around
1907 the Club’s ground was closed and
they ceased to exist for a few years. Their
fixtures were taken over by “The Boys of
England” who played in Junior
competitions.
The club returned to the South Western
League in the late 70s, winning the
Cornwall Senior Cup in 1982/83 and
finishing League runners-up to Newquay
in 1983/84.
The mid-nineties was a very successful
period for the Clarets. The club once again
reached the Cornwall Senior Cup final in
1992/93 but lost to Saltash 3-2, under the
management of Roger Fice and Keith
Ellacott.
Launceston had two junior teams after
the First World War, “Th