Peterborough City F.C.
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| Full name | Peterborough City Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | the City | |
| Founded | 1906 | |
| Dissolved | 1916 | |
| Ground | Midland Road | |
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Peterborough City F.C. was an English football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
The club was founded in 1906,[1] and at its first annual general meeting reported a profit of just over £3 on a turnover of £310; the total weekly player wage was £3 per week.[2] It played one season in the Southern League, in 1909–10.
It entered the FA Cup a number of times in the 1910s; it reached fourth qualifying round - one before the main draw, and the equivalent of the second round in 2024–25 - three times, but never made the main draw.[3]
The club was struggling for finance in 1914, and had to withdraw from the Eastern League to join the Central Alliance.[4] The effects of the First World War caused the club to disband in 1916.[5]
A new club, with the same name and colours, playing at the White Hart ground[6] in New England,[7] was founded in 1923, and it took part in the 1923–24 FA Cup and Northants League.[8] However it disbanded in November 1923, failing to attract support in the shadow of Peterborough & Fletton United.[9]
