18 Facts About Scunthorpe United

1. Scunthorpe United has a speedway team known as the Scunthorpe Scorpions who compete in the British Premier League, the sport's second tier in Britain.

2. Scunthorpe United has two study support centres, Study United FC and Study Heslam, set up with funding from the government's Playing for Success scheme.

3. Scunthorpe United has a leisure centre next to Pittwood House, museum, galleries, craft centres, several clubs, pubs and bars, a Vue multiplex cinema adjacent to the bus station.

4. Scunthorpe United was the setting of a 2012 Cultural Olympiad community opera called Cycle Song, about past steel-worker and Olympic cyclist Lal White.

5. Scunthorpe United has two major shopping centres, effectively a single site: the Foundry Shopping Centre and the Parishes Centre.

6. Scunthorpe United lies on an escarpment of ridged land which slopes down towards the Trent.

7. Scunthorpe United received a charter incorporating the town as a municipal borough in 1936.

8. Scunthorpe United forms an unparished area in the borough and unitary authority of North Lincolnshire.

9. Scunthorpe United was close to the epicentre of one of the largest earthquakes experienced in the British Isles on 27 February 2008, with a magnitude of 5.2.

10. Scunthorpe United became an urban district in 1891, merged as 'Scunthorpe, Brumby and Frodingham Urban District' in 1919, and became a municipal borough in 1936.

11. Scunthorpe United are hopeful of keeping Jak Alnwick until the end of the season.

12. Scunthorpe United started the better side with Kyle Wootton holding the ball up well getting the Iron downfield.

13. Scunthorpe United regained the lead after 68 minutes as George Thomas' weighted pass freed Novak to dink a clever finish over Walsall keeper Liam Roberts.

14. Scunthorpe United led after 12 minutes as midfielder Funso Ojo stole in unmarked to volley home Tony McMahon's floated corner from around 15 yards.

15. Scunthorpe United finished the season in 5th place meaning that the Iron were drawn against Rotherham United in the play-off semi-final.

16. Under the management of Mick Buxton, Scunthorpe United qualified for the Division Four play-offs.

17. In 1988 Scunthorpe United became the first English football club in the modern era to move to a new, purpose-built stadium, Glanford Park.

18. Scunthorpe United was the first club in England to build a cantilever stand after their old East stand burnt down in 1959, four years before Sheffield Wednesday constructed its cantilever stand at Hillsborough.