Lincoln & District Football Supporters Club

Lincoln & District Football Supporters Club Fundraising for Lincoln City Football Club

Red Imps  #1
08/11/2025

Red Imps #1

The legacy of L& DFSC lives on
29/10/2025

The legacy of L& DFSC lives on

A great winner of Player Of The Season
06/05/2025

A great winner of Player Of The Season

RIP. No one should go to a football match and not return home
11/05/2022

RIP. No one should go to a football match and not return home

Congratulations Regan Poole.  Player Of The Season 2021/22. Winner of the Vic Withers Memorial Trophy
30/04/2022

Congratulations Regan Poole. Player Of The Season 2021/22. Winner of the Vic Withers Memorial Trophy

A worthy winner and such a bright future. Winner of The Harry Wilmot Memorial Trophy
14/05/2021

A worthy winner and such a bright future. Winner of The Harry Wilmot Memorial Trophy

A worthy winner. Once again proud to organise Fans Player Of The Season
14/05/2021

A worthy winner. Once again proud to organise Fans Player Of The Season

16/03/2020

Bingo cancelled with immediate effect due to the ongoing virus . Update to follow when we all get through this

06/05/2019
End of a great season
06/05/2019

End of a great season

14/04/2019

Since its formation in 1952, the Lincoln & District Football Supporters Club have raised well over £1.5million for the Imps.

Originally founded as the Lincoln City Supporters Club, the principal objective of the supporters club was to raise money for the Football Club, and their first donation was £50 for a new playing kit in August 1952.

The supporters club handed over £1,500 for concrete terracing on the Sincil Bank side and, in 1957, they paid for a roof to be put on the 'Spion Kop' section of the railway end. Three years later they embarked on a campaign to raise £16,000 to install floodlights at Sincil Bank.

Although membership peaked at 5,700, a downturn the team's fortunes in the 1960s saw this figure decline, although their fundraising activities continued and by May 1959 more than £11,500 had been handed over to the parent club.

In 1961 former trade union official Ben Sullivan was appointed as a full-time organiser and this led to an increase in fundraising when he launched regular bingo sessions and took control of the lottery.

In September 1965, Sullivan took up a similar role with Newcastle United and he was replaced by Brian Baldam who, almost 50 years later, is still at the forefront of the club's fundraising activities today.

Regular donations to the parent club continued, but a disagreement in the summer of 1973 saw the supporters club split from the parent club and renamed itself the Lincoln & District Football Supporters Club. A reconciliation took place soon after Dennis Bocock resigned as chairman of the Board in April 1974.

The club hired premises at the Drill Hall and the Lincoln Liberal Club, where the bingo sessions took place, whilst they also raised money via their Christmas Raffle and Grand National Sweepstake draws.

Their total donation to the Football Club reached £1 million in April 1991 and in November 2003, their 'Double Chance Lottery' was combined with the Football Club's 'Birthday Lotto', which not only resulted in greater prize monies and the reduced running cost of only one lottery but it also brought in greater revenue to the Football Club.

In addition to their much valued fundraising, the Lincoln & District Football Supporters Club has also organised the ballot for the Football Club's "Player of the Season" since it conception in the 1969/70 season.

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Sincil Bank
Lincoln
LN58LD

Opening Hours

Monday 6pm - 9pm

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