Lincoln Red Imps F.C.
Football club in Gibraltar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lincoln Red Imps Football Club is a professional association football club from Gibraltar.[1] They play in the Gibraltar National League, and share Victoria Stadium with all other clubs in the territory.[2] They are the country's record champion with 27 league titles, including fourteen consecutive titles between 2003 and 2016, and in 2014 were the first team to represent Gibraltar in the UEFA Champions League's qualifying stage. In August 2021, Lincoln became the first club from Gibraltar to ever reach the group stages of a European club competition after defeating the Latvian champions Riga FC in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa Conference League.
Full name | Lincoln Red Imps Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Red Imps | ||
Short name | Lincoln | ||
Founded | 1976; 48 years ago (1976) as Blue Batons | ||
Ground | Victoria Stadium, Winston Churchill Avenue, Gibraltar | ||
Capacity | 5,000 | ||
Chairman | Dylan Viagas | ||
Manager | Javi Muñoz | ||
League | Gibraltar Football League | ||
2023–24 | 1st | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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The club has won 7 domestic trebles and 4 doubles in its history.[3] They hold the record for Europe's longest chronological unbeaten league run of 88 matches over 1,959 days from May 2009 to September 2014.[4]