Four years later, the club turned professional, tweaked its name to Mansfield Wesley, and joined the Notts & District League.
The team made their debut in the FA Cup in 1909–10, and joined the Central Alliance in 1911, by which time the club had adopted its current name of Mansfield Town.
[1] In the first post-First World War season, they moved to the Field Mill ground and won the Central Alliance title, and in 1921, they were accepted into the Midland League.
[2] Geographically, Mansfield lay on the border between the catchment areas of the Northern and Southern sections of the regionalised Third Division of the League.
They could not maintain that status,[8][6] and for the next thirty years continued to drift between third and fourth tiers, during which time they won the 1986–87 Associate Members' Cup, a cup competition open to teams from the lowest two tiers of the League; Mansfield beat Bristol City in a penalty shoot-out in the final.
[6] They reached the final of the 2010–11 FA Trophy, losing to Darlington in the last minute of extra time,[10] before returning to the League as Conference champions in 2013.