Notts County F.C. is founded in Nottingham, England, making it the oldest professional Association football club in the world.

Notts County Football Club is a professional football club in Nottingham, England, which competes in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of English football, following promotion from the National League in the 2022–23 season. Founded in 1862, Notts County are the oldest professional football club in the world. They first competed in the FA Cup in 1877 and in 1888 became one of the twelve founding members of the Football League. Notts County have been promoted fourteen times, relegated seventeen times and have played in each of the top five divisions of English football.

Nottingham ( NOT-ing-əm, is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located 33 miles south-east of Sheffield and 45 miles north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham is the legendary home of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport.

November 28 is the 332nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 33 days remain until the end of the year.