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Honours
Division One
Highest placing: 5th, 1934-35
Division Two
Champions: 1900-01, 1933-34
Promoted: 1928-29, 1997-98
Division Three
Champions: 1979-80
Promoted: 1961-70, 1990-91
Division Three (North)
Champions: 1925-26, 1955-56
Division Four
Champions: 1971-72
Promoted: 1978-79, 1989-90
Failed to put in a performance in the play-off final: 2005-06
Conference Premier
Promoted: 2015-16
Midland League
Champions: 1910-11, 1930-31, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1946-47
Football League Trophy
Winners: 1997-98
Moral winners as last legitimate football club remaining in competition: 2007-08
Football League Group Cup
Winners: 1981-82
FA Cup
Furthest: semi-final, 1935-36, 1938-39
League Cup
Furthest: quarter-final, 1979-80, 1984-85
Relegated
To Division Two: 1902-03, 1931-32, 1947-48, 1996-97, 2002-03
To Division Three: 1958-59, 1963-64, 1986-87, 2003-04
To Division Three (North): 1950-51
To Division Three (South): 1919-20
To Division Four: 1967-68, 1976-77, 1987-88
Managers roll call
italics indicate caretaker manager
* indicates as 'secretary'
| Appointed | Departed | |
| Michael Jolley | 2 March 2018 | |
| Paul Wilkinson | 11 February 2018 | 2 March 2018 |
| Russell Slade | 12 April 2017 | 11 February 2018 |
| Marcus Bignot | 7 November 2016 | 10 April 2017 |
| Dave Moore | 24 October 2016 | 7 November 2016 |
| Paul Hurst | 23 March 2011 | 24 October 2016 |
| Paul Hurst & Rob Scott | 23 March 2011 | Rob Scott sacked 19 September 2013 |
| Dave Moore | 23 February 2011 | 23 March 2011 |
| Neil Woods | 23 November 2009 | 23 February 2011 |
| Neil Woods | 19 October 2009 | 23 November 2009 |
| Mike Newell | 6 October 2008 | 19 October 2009 |
| Stuart Watkiss | 15 September 2008 | 6 October 2008 |
| Alan Buckley | 9 November 2006 | 15 September 2008 |
| Stuart Watkiss | 6 November 2006 | 9 November 2006 |
| Graham Rodger | 5 June 2006 | 6 November 2006 |
| Russell Slade | 3 June 2004 | 30 May 2006 |
| Nicky Law | 3 March 2004 | 10 May 2004 |
| Graham Rodger | 9 February 2004 | 3 March 2004 |
| Paul Groves | 28 December 2001 | 9 February 2004 |
| Lennie Lawrence | 29 August 2000 | 28 December 2001 |
| John Cockerill | 22 August 2000 | 29 August 2000 |
| Alan Buckley | 21 May 1997 | 22 August 2000 |
| Kenny Swain | January 1997 | May 1997 |
| Kenny Swain | 15 November 1996 | January 1997 |
| John Cockerill | 1 November 1996 | 15 November 1996 |
| Brian Laws | 29 November 1994 | 1 November 1996 |
| John Cockerill | October 1994 | November 1994 |
| Alan Buckley | 6 June 1988 | 20 October 1994 |
| Bobby Roberts | 1 July 1987 | 9 May 1988 |
| Mike Lyons | 1 November 1985 | 30 June 1987 |
| Peter Grotier | October 1985 | November 1985 |
| David Booth | 11 January 1982 | 31 October 1985 |
| George Kerr | 13 July 1979 | 11 January 1982 |
| Johnny Newman | 21 December 1976 | 11 July 1979 |
| Dick Connor | November 1976 | December 1976 |
| Tom Casey | 28 February 1975 | 30 November 1976 |
| John Fraser | February 1975 | February 1975 |
| Ron Ashman | 1 July 1973 | 3 February 1975 |
| Lawrie McMenemy | May 1971 | July 1973 |
| Bobby Kennedy | March 1969 | May 1971 |
| George Higgins | January 1969 | March 1969 |
| Bill Harvey | January 1968 | January 1969 |
| Don McEvoy | July 1967 | January 1968 |
| Jimmy McGuigan | November 1964 | July 1967 |
| George Higgins | October 1964 | October 1964 |
| Tom Johnston | July 1962 | October 1964 |
| Tim Ward | February 1960 | June 1962 |
| Bill Lambton | April 1959 | Febuary 1960 |
| Allenby Chilton | March 1955 | April 1959 |
| Billy Walsh | February 1954 | March 1955 |
| Bill Shankly | July 1951 | January 1953 |
| Frank Womack | January 1951 | May 1951 |
| George Tweedy | July 1950 | January 1951 |
| Charlie Spencer | March 1937 | May 1951 |
| Mo Atherton | October 1936 | March 1937 |
| Frank Womack | May 1932 | October 1936 |
| Wilf Gillow | June 1924 | April 1932 |
| George Fraser | March 1921 | March 1924 |
| Haydn Price | July 1920 | November 1920 |
| Harry Hickson* | August 1902 | May 1920 |