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Clay Cross Town Football Club is an
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club based in
Clay Cross Clay Cross is a town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about south of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield. It is directly ...
,
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. The club plays in the .


History

Formed in 1989 as Parkhouse F.C., the club joined the
Central Midlands Football League The Central Midlands Alliance is an English football league covering the northeast-central part of England. Formed in 1971 as the South Derbyshire League, changing name initially to the Derbyshire League before changing to the Central Midlands L ...
in 2007. They won promotion from the Premier Division to the Supreme Division in 2010, and upon the league's restructuring a year later were placed in the North Division. In the summer of 2012 the club was renamed Clay Cross Town F.C., meaning they would be the third club to take such a name -
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had both played in the
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over a century earlier. In 2016, the club made its debut in the
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. On 8 November 2016 the newly formed club reached the third round of the Derbyshire Senior Cup Competition for the first time after beating
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at Mill Lane 5–2. The third-round tie played on 6 December 2016 saw them host Evo-Stik club
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. Before a crowd of 150 the Millers lost 2–1 to the Bucks. In 2023, the club was promoted to the
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for the 2023-24 season.League line-ups announced by the FA
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Records

*Best
FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during ...
performance: Preliminary round, 2025–26 (ongoing) *Best
FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, also known as the Isuzu FA Vase for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football competition run by and named after The Football Association (The FA), for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English Nation ...
performance: Fourth round, 2024–25


Honours

*United Counties League **Division One Champions: 2024–25 *Central Midland League South **Champions 2022–23


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