Morecambe Football Club, nicknamed “The Shrimps,” is a non-league football club based in Morecambe, Lancashire.
Established on 7th May, 1920, they currently compete in the Enterprise National League, which is part of the fifth tier of English football. The team calls Mazuma Mobile Stadium their home ground.
The club spent 48 seasons in the Lancashire Combination, winning five titles while moving from Woodhill Lane to Roseberry Park, soon renamed Christie Park. Crowds exceeding 3,000 attended local derbies, and honours included a league-and-cup double in 1924-25 and an FA Trophy success at Wembley in 1974.
Post-war progress under Ken Horton brought a 1962 FA Cup third-round appearance and the 1968 Lancashire Senior Cup, but attendances fell sharply in the 1980s. Jim Harvey revived fortunes, guiding Morecambe to the Conference and two play-off near-misses while matching the club’s best FA Cup runs, both ended by Ipswich Town, before a heart attack in 2005 saw Sammy McIlroy replace him.
McIlroy secured promotion to the Football League via the 2007 play-off final and oversaw the move to the Globe Arena in 2010 before departing a year later. Successor Jim Bentley kept the Shrimps in League Two for eight seasons, after which Derek Adams guided them to League One in 2021. Adams returned in 2022 and achieved a club-record points tally, but relegation followed in 2023.