Notts County Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an club based in. Garmin xt wince 800x480 hd. Founded in 1862, they are the oldest professional association football club in the world. They participate in, the fourth tier of English football, as of the.

Their history includes an victory, a record 29 combined promotions and relegations, several financial crises, and periods of success and struggle across all four divisions of English professional football. The club are known informally as Notts and their nickname is often shortened to the Pies. After playing at a few different home grounds during their first fifty years, including, the club moved to in 1910 and have remained there since. They traditionally play in black and white striped shirts and lent their colours to in 1903. Between 2014 and 2017, there was also a professional. Notts County were one of twelve founder members of The Football League in 1888.

By the end of the, they had played a record 4,940 league matches. Notable periods in their history include the years immediately after, when international played for the club; ’s three spells as manager (1969–75, 1977–82, 1985–87), which saw the club promoted from the Fourth Division to the First; and the tenure of (1989–93), who oversaw their first visits to and their last season in the top flight (). The club also attracted headlines in 2009 after a takeover by alleged Middle Eastern billionaires. Plaque at the George Hotel Nottingham commemorating Notts County Football Club first meeting to elect Officers and Committee on 7 December 1864 Notts County are the oldest professional league club in the world having been formed in 1862. Notts pre-dated and initially played a game of its own devising, rather than association football. At the time of its formation, Notts County, like most sports teams, were considered to be a '-only' club.

Notts County are considered to be one of the pioneers of the modern game and are the oldest of the world's professional association football clubs (there are in other codes of football, and, an amateur club founded in 1857, are the oldest club now playing association football). In November 1872, the Notts County played for against in the, thereby becoming the club's first international player. Football League [ ]. The team that won the 1894 FA Cup On 25 March 1891, Notts County reached the final for the first time. The Magpies were defeated 3–1 by at, despite having beaten the same side 7–1 in the league only a week earlier. Notts County made up for this on 31 March 1894, when they won the FA Cup at, defeating 4–1 in a game in which scored the second in FA Cup final history.