Easington Colliery Association Football Club are an English amateur football club based in Easington Colliery, County Durham, England, and currently play in the Wearside Football League (which is the 11th level of English football). Easington Colliery A.F.C. were founded as Easington Colliery Welfare in 1913.[1] Easington Colliery reached the first round of the FA Cup in 1955 for the first and only time in their history, which they lost 2–0 to Tranmere, to a record crowd of 4,500.[1]