![]() ![]() Lincoln won both the 2015 Rock Cup with a 4–1 victory over Lynx F.C. Joseph Chipolina holding plaque commemorating club's Rock Cup victory After claiming a 1–1 draw in the home match, they lost 5–2 at Faroese team HB and were eliminated in the first qualifying round. In 2014, after Gibraltar had joined UEFA as the 54th member, Lincoln became the first Gibraltarian team to play in the qualifying stages of the UEFA Champions League. They also won the national treble of League, Rock Cup and Senior Cup in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 20. Lincoln won 14 Gibraltar Premier Division titles in a row from 2003 to 2016, bettering the previous record of nine in a row held by Glacis United in the 1960s. In 1984–85 Lincoln played their first season in the Gibraltar Premier Division in which they were joint champions with Glacis United – the first of seven league titles which were won between 19. In 1983–84 Lincoln won the league and promotion to the Gibraltar Premier Division. The next year Lincoln finished in mid table in the first division. The team started to climb to the top in the second division in the season 1981–82 winning the league, the division cup and gaining promotion to the GFA's first division after only one season. When this Lincoln team became old enough to play Senior Football, it was decided to place the young team into the GFA second division. Lincoln Red Imps received their name after they were sponsored by Reg Brealey, the former Sheffield United chairman and Lincoln resident who is friends with Charles Polson. The team was named after Lincoln City FC, who are nicknamed the "Imps" after the legend of the Lincoln Imp. A group of players associated to the old Police youth team called the "Blue Batons" and complemented by players that had been released by Glacis United and St Jago's joined forces to form the first Lincoln team that played in the Gibraltar fourth division as a youth team. The football club was first formed in 1976 by Charles Polson and Charles Head, the latter managing the team. The club holds Europe's longest chronological unbeaten league run of 88 matches over 1,959 days from May 2009 to September 2014. In August 2021, Lincoln became the first club from Gibraltar to ever reach the group stages of a European club competition after defeating the Latvian champions Riga FC in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa Conference League. They are the country's record champion with 27 league titles, including fourteen consecutive titles between 20, and in 2014 were the first team to represent Gibraltar in the UEFA Champions League's qualifying stage. They play in the Gibraltar National League, and share Victoria Stadium with all other clubs in the territory. Lincoln Red Imps Football Club is a professional association football club from Gibraltar. ![]()
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