Swindon Town Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire. Founded as: Swindon AFC in 1879, Spartans in 1880 and finally Swindon Town in 1883. The club participates in League One, the third tier in the English football league system, in which it has spent 32 of its 87 League seasons (to 2014), with a further 30 in the former Division 3 South. The club's home ground, where it has played for 120 years since 1896, is the County Ground, which has a capacity of 15,728.