Harrogate Town A.F.C. is a professional association football club in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, which competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded as Harrogate Hotspurs in 1935, they changed their name to Harrogate Town after football returned at the end of the Second World War. The club initially joined the West Yorkshire Association League before entering the Yorkshire League again in 1957. Harrogate became founder members of the Northern Counties East League in 1982 and a founding member of the Northern Premier League's First Division in 1987. They won the Northern Premier League Division One title in 2001–02 and became founder members of the Conference North in 2004. Harrogate won the National League North play-offs in 2018 and secured a place in the Football League for the first time with victory in the 2020 National League play-off Final.