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Penzance Association Football Club is a football club based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. They were established in 1888 and were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, and maintained membership of that league until 2007 when they joined the newly formed South West Peninsula League Division One West. In common with many other teams that play in black-and-white stripes, they are nicknamed The Magpies. They currently play in the.HistoryPenzance A.F.C. was founded in 1888, the same year as the Football League was established. They played their first match that season against employees of the Eastern Telegraph Company, based in Porthcurno. The following year, the club was one of the founding members of the Cornwall County Football Association. In the 1892–93 season, the club won the first award of the Cornwall Senior Cup, beating Launceston 5–0 in the final. They missed out on the final in the next two seasons, but then appeared in the following six finals, winning three of those matches. In the first sixteen years of the competition, Penzance making ten appearances in the final, winning six of them and losing four. In five of those appearances, their opponents were Launceston, including four years running from the 1897–98 season. In the 1947–48 season, the club celebrated a double, winning both the Senior Cup, and the Cornwall Charity Cup.