Alsager Town Football Club is a football club, based in

Alsager Alsager ( ) is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located to the north-west of Stoke-on-Trent and east of Crewe. The town's population was 13,389 at the 2021 census. ''The Mere'' is a ...

, Cheshire, England. The club are currently members of and play at Wood Park Stadium. Affiliated to the Cheshire County Football Association, they also operate a reserve team in the

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and a youth team in the North West Youth Alliance.

History

Established in 1968,Alsager Town
North West Counties League the club joined the Mid-Cheshire League in the 1971–72 season. In 1973 they were renamed Alsager Town, a name they retained until 1985 when they became Alsager United. In 1988 the club reverted to its original name. They finished as runners-up in the Mid-Cheshire League in 1987–88, but left the league at the end of the season as they disbanded.Club History
Alsager Town F.C. The club reformed in 1989 and joined the Premier Division of the Crewe League. Two years later they moved up to the Mid-Cheshire League in 1991 and were placed in Division Two. After playing in the league for seven seasons, they switched to the

Midland Football League The Midland Football League is an English football league that was founded in 2014 by the merger of the former Midland Alliance and Midland Combination. The league has four divisions that sit at levels 9–12 of the football pyramid. History ...

in 1998. They finished as runners-up in their first season, earning promotion to Division Two of the North West Counties League. In 2001 the club were renamed for a fifth time, becoming Alsager Town again. They finished second in Division Two in

North West Counties League The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the North West of England. Since 2019–20, the league has covered the Isle of Man, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, northern Staffordshire, northern ...

, earning promotion to Division One. They won the Leek Cup in the same season. The 2005–06 season saw the club finish third in Division One, resulting in promotion to Division One of the

Northern Premier League The Northern Premier League is an English Association football, football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division ...

(NPL). At the end of their first season in the NPL the league added an extra division, resulting in Alsager Town being placed in Division One South. Although they finished fourteenth in the eighteen-club division in 2007–08, the club were relegated back into the renamed Premier Division of the North West Counties League after failing ground grading criteria. The club remained in the Premier Division until the end of the 2015–16 season when they were relegated to Division One.

League history

Ground

Alsager have played at Wood Park Stadium, originally known as the Town Ground, since 1968. The clubhouse suffered considerable damage by fire in July 2011,Alsager Town Football Club hit by fire
BBC News, 12 July 2011 resulting in them largely playing away from home until November that year. It currently has a capacity of 3,000, of which 250 is seated and 1,000 covered.

Records

*Best

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competit ...

performance: First qualifying round, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2015–16 *Best

FA Trophy The Football Association Challenge Trophy, commonly known as the FA Trophy, is a men's football knockout cup competition run by and named after the English Football Association and competed for primarily by semi-professional teams. The compet ...

performance: Second qualifying round, 2006–07 *Best

FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English footb ...

performance: Third round, 2015–16 *Record attendance: 606 vs

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, FA Vase second round, 14 November 2009 *Record defeat: 12–1 vs

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, Cheshire Senior Cup, 8 February 2011 *Record victory: 6–0 vs

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, North West Counties League Division Two, 2001–02; vs Cheadle Town, FA Cup, 2006–07; vs

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, North West Counties League Premier Division, 23 September 2014

Honours

*Leek Cup **Winners 2001–02

References

External links

Official website
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