Preston North End Football Club are a professional English football team. They currently (2003-2004) play in the Nationwide League Division One, under the management of Craig Brown.
Their home ground is at Deepdale in the city of Preston, Lancashire, and they are nicknamed, the 'Lilywhites'.
Formed in 1881 and one of the founding members of the English Football League in 1888, Preston North End won the first league championship (1888-89). The club was also the first to achieve the 'double' of winning the FA Cup (1889, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0) and the English Football League championship in the same season.
Preston North End played in the top two divisions of the League continuously until 1970. They also won the FA Cup in 1938 (beating Huddersfield Town 1-0). In 1970, however, they were relegated to Division 3 for the first time, but bounced back by winning the Division 3 championship 1970-71. The club did not maintain its position though, dropping eventually to Division 4 in 1985.
During the 1990s, however, Preston re-emerged under manager David Moyes.
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