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Poole Red Star is an English professional football club based in Poole, which currently plays in the Premier League, the highest tier of the English football pyramid. The club was ever-present in non-league football for the first 123 years of its history and has played in white and black hoops as shirt colours for the vast majority of its existence. The club was one of the most successful in non-league football, and won the FA Trophy twice, most recently in 1997, as well as the FA Vase once, and has also achieved notable giant-killings in the FA Cup, against Tottenham Hotspur in 1946 and Sheffield Wednesday in 1976. In 2022 Red Star achieved promotion to the Football League, the first of four promotions in five years, reaching the Premier League in 2026. In the 2026-27 Premier League season, Red Star won the league title as debutants, becoming just the sixth team in England to achieve the feat and the first in 49 years.
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Full name | Poole Red Star Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | Red Star, The Rebels | ||
Founded | 13 September 1899; 124 years ago (13 September 1899) as Red Star | ||
Ground | Magnolia, Poole | ||
Capacity | (6,260 seated) | ||
Owner | Thomas Goddard | ||
Chief Executive | Joseph Bolton | ||
Manager | Liam Searle | ||
League | Premier League | ||
2022–23 | Premier League, 10th of 20 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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The club has played at its Magnolia home in Parkstone for over 100 years, having first played at the current site of the stadium in 1923. Prior to this, the club played at what is now Alexandra Park. Following promotion to the EFL Championship, planning began for a significant expansion of the stadium, then the league's smallest by a significant margin. At present, it is the smallest stadium ever to host Premier League football.
The club is recognised for its distinctive social culture, with the club's fanbase known for their left-wing political support despite its location in conservative South East Dorset. Similarly, the club maintains several longstanding policies towards anti-commercialism, including its registration as a Community Interest Company, a blanket ban on shirt sponsorship, and the Red Star Supporters' Association holding a minority stake in the ownership of the club.