Nicknamed The Pilgrims, Plymouth play in a distinctive green and white home strip at their ground Home Park.
The club have undergone a massive turnaround in recent years after being relegated to League Two in 2019.
Despite this, they have often spent time bouncing between the second and third tiers of English football.
Argyle were founded in 1886, with the Plymouth being added to their name in 1903 when they turned professional. In the same year, they entered both the Southern League and the Western League.
Plymouth Argyle won the Western League in 1905 and the Southern League in 1913. They won election into the Football League Third Division in 1920. They finished runners-up across six successive seasons before gaining promotion as Third Division South champions in the 1929/30 season.
They spent 20 years in the Second Division before suffering relegation in 1950. They bounced back two seasons later before being relegated once more in 1956. This yo-yoing was to be a common theme.
In the 1957/58 season, Plymouth signed one of their club legends, Wilf Carter. He would stay until 1964, scoring 134 goals.
In his first season at Home Park, he scored 32 goals as the club finished third in the Third Division. He fired them to promotion the following season, scoring 25 league goals.
In 1973, Argyle hosted Brazilian giants Santos FC at Home Park. Despite having Pele in their starting line-up, The Pilgrims notched up a 3-2 win.
Argyle had been relegated to the Third Division in 1968 but secured promotion in 1975 with Paul Mariner as part of the side. He had formed a devastating partnership with Billy Rafferty, with the duo scoring 46 goals that season. The club were relegated again two years later.
In the 1978/79 season, Kevin Hodges made his debut for Argyle - he would go on to appear more times than any other player for the club, 620.
In 1984, Argyle reached the FA Cup semi-finals, beating top tier West Brom and Derby en route. They lost 1-0 to Watford at Villa Park.
In the 1990s, Plymouth bounced around the second and third tiers of English football, much like they had done in previous decades.
This was despite Dan McCauley becoming chairman. He also brought in Peter Shilton as player-manager but he was unable to prevent relegation in 1992. Shilton guided Argyle to the play-offs in 1994 but they fell short in the semi-finals, losing to Burnley. Shilton left soon after.
Argyle were relegated to the fourth tier in 1995, but Neil Warnock took over and guided them to promotion the following season through the play-offs. However, they narrowly avoided relegation again and Warnock was sacked.
Relegation back to the fourth tier did happen though and they languished in this division for a few seasons.
The appointment of Paul Sturrock as manager in November 2000, when Argyle were in danger of dropping out of the football league altogether, marked a turning point in their fortunes. They finished 12th that season and stormed to automatic promotion the next.
Plymouth were promoted from the third tier in the 2003/04 season, when they drew an average crowd of 12,654. This was their highest since the 1967/68 campaign.
Plymouth finished 17th and survived somewhat comfortably in their first season back in the second tier (2004/05). They also saw an increase in attendances during their stay in the Championship.
It looked like things were improving for Plymouth, but their flirtation with relegation in 2008/09 marked another change in fortunes. They narrowly survived but finished second-bottom the following season.
The effects of their financial problems were felt long before they went into administration but the points deduction did not help as it saw them relegated for the second time in successive seasons. This meant they started the 2011/12 season in the fourth tier.
A takeover did take place and the team's form eventually improved, although they were only two points away from being relegated out of the Football League in 2011/12 and one point off relegation in 2012/13.
Things did pick up but the club wouldn't play higher than the fourth tier until the 2017/18 season after they had been finished in second place in League Two in 2016/17. Attendances had dwindled back down during this period and many fans do not look back at the years between 2011 and 2016 fondly.
In August 2018, Simon Hallett became the majority shareholder of the club and three months later he became chairman.
Plymouth were relegated back to League Two in 2018/19 but bounced straight back the following season under the guidance of newly appointed manager Ryan Lowe. They finished 18th in League One in the 2020/21 campaign, with striker Luke Jephcott scoring 18 goals.
They finished seventh the next season - with Lowe being replaced by his assistant Steven Schumacher in December - and looked significantly improved, with their strategic use of the loan market paying dividends.
Their most impressive campaign was the 2022/23 season, which they stormed to become League One champions, picking up 101 points.
Plymouth dispensed with the services of Ian Foster in April, just three months after he had replaced Schumacher.
The club were sitting just one place and a single point above the relegation zone at the time and that is exactly where they finished after Argyle director of football Neil Dewsnip and first-team coach Kevin Nancekivell guided them to three wins from their last six games, the last of them a 1-0 final-day victory over Hull which kept them up.
In May 2024, former England captain Wayne Rooney took the helm on a three-year deal.
But Rooney's reign was short lived and he left the club by mutual agreement at the end of 2024 with Plymouth at the bottom of the Championship.
He oversaw just four league wins and suffered 13 defeats in 23 Championship games.
Under Rooney, Plymouth scored the joint fewest goals in the second tier and conceded more than any other club in England's top four divisions.
On January 10, 2025, Plymouth appointed Miron Muslic as their new head coach to replace Rooney on a three-and-a-half year deal.
Muslic, who had been manager of Belgian side Cercle Brugge until December 2024, is the first-ever foreign manager to be employed by Argyle.
"Miron had a clear vision of how he wanted to take Argyle forward and showed a depth of tactical awareness that made it clear exactly how he wanted the team to set up and play," chairman Simon Hallett said.
"He comes with glowing reviews from his time at Cercle Brugge where he took a team from a lowly league position to European football which is no mean feat.
"I want to welcome him to the club and look forward to seeing him have an immediate impact on the team."
Plymouth knocked Premier League Brentford out of the FA Cup, the day after Muslic's appointment, but the Pilgrims were under the stewardship of interim manager Nancekivell at the time.
Plymouth Argyle's biggest rivals are considered to be Exeter City as they are the only two professional football clubs in Devon.
During their time in League Two, Plymouth also considered Portsmouth as a rival, while there has been rancour with Burnley ever since the aforementioned defeat in 1994.
Plymouth Argyle are by no means a rich club and have had to be slightly more strategic than some teams they have shared a league with in the past. Their previous issues with administration have already been mentioned.
The club have been recently renovating their stadium which could hinder them in the transfer market.
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