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Sport in Lincoln
Lincoln’s main sports team is the professional football side Lincoln City F.C., nicknamed 'The Imps', which plays at the Sincil Bank stadium.
The club was famously the first team to be relegated from the English Football League, when automatic relegation to the Football Conference was introduced in the 1986-87 season. However, it regained its league place at the first attempt and has held onto it ever since.
From 1972 to 1977 Lincoln City was the first club managed by Graham Taylor, who went on to manage the English national football team from 1990 to 1993.
Lincoln City F.C. has a female counterpart, Lincoln City L.F.C. ('The Lady Imps'), and the city is also home to Lincoln United F.C., Lincoln Moorlands Railway F.C. and Lincoln Griffins Ladies F.C.
