| Full name | Worksop Parramore Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1936 | ||
| Ground | Sandy Lane, Worksop (Capacity: 2,500 (200 seated)) |
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| Chairman | Graeme Hinchliffe | ||
| Manager | Peter Whitehead | ||
| League | Northern Counties East League Division One |
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| 2010–11 | Central Midlands League Supreme Division, 1st | ||
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Worksop Parramore Football Club, formerly known as Parramore Sports, is am English football club based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
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Parramore Sports were established in 1936 as the works team of ironfounders F Parramore & Sons. They played in the works league from 1936 until 1972, before moving up to the Barnsley Junior League where they had immediate success winning the league and cup in their first season, before returning to the Works League in 1975. In 1977 they joined the local Amateur League and were promoted to the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Senior League in 1985, quickly reachin the Premier Division. In 1996–97 the club was relegated to Division One.
In the late 2000s the club moved to the Don Valley Stadium and joined the Premier Division of the Central Midlands League. They were promoted to the Supreme Division, which they won in 2010–11,[1] earning promotion to Division One of the Northern Counties East League. Prior to the start of the 2011–12 season Parramore manager Peter Whitehead bought Worksop Town's disused Sandy Lane ground and move the club to the town, renaming them Worksop Parramore.[2]