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Thackley A.F.C.
Full name	Thackley Association Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Dennyboys
Founded	1930
Ground	The ‘Thank You Key Workers Stadium at Dennyfield’, Bradford
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Ben Oliver
Manager	Danny Forrest & Tom Greaves
League	Northern Counties East League Premier Division
2022–23	Northern Counties East League Premier Division, 14th of 20
	Home colours
	Home colours

Thackley A.F.C. are a football club based in Thackley, north Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The club plays in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division. Their home ground is the ‘Thank You Key Workers Stadium at Dennyfield’ and the primary colours of club are red and white.

History

Thackley FC was formed in 1930, spending much of their early years in local football before joining the West Riding County Amateur League in 1939. The club then moved into county-wide leagues, spending 25 years in the West Riding County Amateur League, winning that league on five occasions before a brief spell in the West Yorkshire League. Thackley then joined the Yorkshire League before becoming founder members of the Northern Counties East League's Premier Division where they have been ever since with the club's best season being in 1993–94 when they were runners-up, losing out on goal difference to Stocksbridge Park Steels.^[1] The club has never been relegated from that division throughout the League's 40-year history.

Thackley's best efforts in national cup competitions have been in the FA Vase, their best season being in 1980–81 when they got to the fifth round. The club has never progressed beyond the second qualifying round of either the FA Cup or the FA Trophy.^[2]