Bedford Town F.C.

Bedford Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Cardington, Bedford, England. The club are full members of the Football Association and affiliated to the Bedfordshire County Football Association.

Although forerunners to the club had been in existence as early as 1884, Bedford Town Football Club was founded in 1908 and played in local leagues before joining the Southern League in 1945, winning the championship in 1958–59. During the 1950s and 1960s the club became known for a series of FA Cup runs, including a third-round tie against Arsenal in 1955–56 and a fourth-round match against Everton in 1965–66 that drew a record crowd of 18,407 to the club's Queens Park ground. Between 1955 and 1975, the club made eighteen unsuccessful applications for election to the Football League, the second-highest number of any club after Yeovil Town.

Bedford were dissolved in 1982 after their lease on the Queens Park ground was terminated and plans for a new stadium fell through. However, the club was reformed by supporters in 1989, initially playing on public pitches in Queens Park before moving to a new ground, the Eyrie, in Cardington, in 1993. Starting in the South Midlands League, the club climbed through the non-league pyramid, and is currently in the National League North, the sixth tier of English football.