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West Auckland Town FC won the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy in 1909 by beating Sportfreunde Stuttgart 2-0 in the semi-finals and FC Winterthur 2-0 in the final, held in Turin on the 12th of April 1909. They returned in 1911 and won again, defeating Juventus 6-1 in the final, which entitled them to keep the trophy permanently under the competition rules.
England's Football Association refused to nominate a club for the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy. West Auckland, an amateur Northern League side of coal miners, filled the vacant spot. It has never been fully established why they were chosen, though recent research suggests they were the intended participants rather than the result of a mix-up.
West Auckland pawned the trophy to a local hotel landlady due to financial difficulties after bringing it home. A village fundraising appeal in 1960 returned it to the club. The original trophy was stolen in 1994 and never recovered despite a two-thousand-pound reward; an exact replica now sits in a secure cabinet at the West Auckland Working Men's Club.
Tyne Tees Television produced The World Cup: A Captain's Tale in 1982, a film based on West Auckland's 1909 Lipton Trophy victory. The film starred Dennis Waterman.
West Auckland Town FC reached the FA Vase final twice, both times at Wembley Stadium. They lost 2-0 to Dunston UTS in 2011-12 and 1-0 to Sholing in 2013-14, with a deflected goal deciding the second final.
West Auckland FC was founded in 1893 and joined the Northern League in 1908. After folding due to debt in 1912, the club was reconstituted in 1914 as West Auckland Town FC. They currently compete in the Northern League, in the ninth tier of the English football league system.