Bury FC English football club based in the town of Bury Greater Manchester. It was one of the most powerful teams of the Edwardian period.  The Club was formed in 1885 at a meeting in the Swan and Cemetery public house and in 1889 they were founder members of the Lancashire League.  Before a Lancashire Senior Cup match against Everton, the club chairman JT Ingham announced, "We'll give 'em a shakin'. In fact, we are the Shakers." This has remained the club's nickname to this day. Bury joined the Football League Second Division in 1894, which they won at the first attempt. They beat Liverpool in a play-off to clinch promotion to Division One where they stayed until 1912.  Bury won the FA Cup twice, in 1900 they beat Southampton 4-0 at Crystal Palace and in 1903 they won the Cup without conceding a goal in the entire competition, including a 6-0 defeat of Derby County in the Final – which remained a record until 2019 when Manchester City defeated Watford by the same score. 

The glory years came to an end in 1912 when they were relegated.  The club returned to the top tier of English football in 1923 and in 1926 achieved their highest League position ever, 4th in the First Division. Two years later they were relegated and never played top flight football again. Steady decline followed and by 1971, they had slumped to the Fourth Division. Having won promotion from the bottom division in 1996, Bury followed this up by winning the Division Two championship the following year, thereby regaining a place in the second tier of English football. They went back to the third tier on the last day of the 1998–99 season. Always struggling for support in the heart of Greater Manchester, Bury FC bounced between the lower two divisions for the next twenty years.  Just three months have celebrating promotion to League One in 2018, Bury was expelled from the League when crippling financial problem led to players and staff unpaid.