York City Football Club is a professional association football club based in York, North Yorkshire, England. The club participates in the National League North, the sixth tier of English football. Founded in 1922, York joined the Football League in 1929, and has spent most of its time in the lower divisions. The club briefly rose as high as the second tier of English football, spending two seasons in the Second Division in the 1970s. At the end of the 2003–04 season the club lost its League status when it was relegated from the Third Division. York remained in the Conference Premier until the end of the 2011–12 season, when it was promoted back to the Football League following a 2–1 victory against Luton Town at Wembley Stadium in the 2012 Conference Premier play-off Final.