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Southend United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The team competes in League One, the third tier of English football. Southend are known as "The Shrimpers", a reference to the area's maritime industry included as one of the quarterings on the club badge.
Founded 19 May 1906 in the Blue Boar pub[2] Southend has been a member of the Football League since 1920. The club has spent most of its League career in the English lower divisions, with seven seasons in the League's second tier (Division 2/Championship).
The club is based at Roots Hall Stadium[3] in Prittlewell, with plans to move to a new stadium at Fossetts Farm.
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