Hartlepool United Football Club is an English association football club based in Hartlepool, North East England and currently play in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Fred Priest, who led the team to second in the North Eastern League in the 1909–10 season, was elected as the club's first manager in August 1908. The club was managed by Cecil Potter when it was named as a founder member of the Football League Third Division North for the 1921–22 season, in which the team finished in 4th position. The club went throughout the period of 1940–43 without a manager due to the Second World War but appointed Fred Westgarth in August 1943. Under the management of Angus McLean, the club won promotion to Division Three from Division Four after finishing in th