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Milton Keynes Dons Football Club, usually abbreviated to MK Dons, is a professional association football club based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The team competes in League One, the third tier of the English football league system, after gaining promotion at the end of the 2018–19 season. The club was founded in 2004, following Wimbledon F.C.'s controversial relocation to Milton Keynes from south London, when it adopted its present name, badge and home colours.
The Milton Keynes Lightning are a semi-professional ice hockey team from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, playing in the NIHL National League, joining at the start of the 2019–20 season after previously icing in the English Premier Ice Hockey League from 2002–2017 and the EIHL, 2017–2019. The team was founded in 2002 after the Milton Keynes Kings were forced out and had to depart Milton Keynes for Solihull. Their home rink is the refurbished and renamed The MK Arena, known locally as the Thunderdome. It has a capacity of circa 2,500.
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