Cheadle Town F.C.

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Cheadle Town FC
Full name	Cheadle Town Football Club
Founded	1961
Ground	Park Road Stadium Cheadle Stockport
Capacity	2,000
Chairman	Chris Davies
Manager	Trevor Howard
League	NWCFL Division Two
2005-06	14th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Cheadle Town F.C. are a football club based in Cheadle, near Stockport, Greater Manchester. They were established in 1961 and joined the North West Counties Football League in 1983. They are currently members of the North West Counties Football League Division Two. Their home ground is Park Road Stadium.

[edit] History

Cheadle Town started life in 1961 as Grasmere Rovers and were playing in the local Manchester Junior football league on Sunday afternoons; joining the Manchester League in 1972 allowed them to play their football on the more regular Saturday afternoon. Grasmere Rovers moved to Park Road in 1982 and then changed their name to Cheadle Town in 1983, at the same time joining the North West Counties Football League. Cheadle Town have spent most of their NWCFL life in Division Two; 1998 saw the start of a three-year escape from Division Two as the club were promoted to Division One. Cheadle Town were relegated back to Division Two in 2001 and have stayed there ever since.

They kicked off their 2006-2007 league campaign on Saturday 12th August 2006 with a 2-1 victory at home to Castleton Gabriels and then won their next three matches. They were then eliminated from the FA Cup at the Preliminary Round stage after suffering a 0-6 defeat away to Alsager Town at the beginning of September, sparking a run of almost three months without a win and elimination from three other cup competitions. This hoodoo was broken on Wednesday 22nd November 2006 with a 1-0 home win against Chadderton.

Cheadle Town's traditional colours are white and black, worn in the combination of white shirts, black shorts and white stockings. However, over recent seasons they have appeared in yellow shirts, blue shorts and yellow stockings (which is now used as the away strip) and now this season's strip of sky blue and white striped shirts, navy blue shorts and stockings.

[edit] Foreign Tours

Despite being at the bottom of the football pyramid, Cheadle Town are famous throughout non-league football for their foreign tours and has a record of playing 96 games in 30 different countries in front of 312,000 people, scoring 111 goals in the process. They have even graced the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, playing to a crowd of 65,000. The foreign tours have seen Cheadle Town FC travel just over 200,000 miles around the world.

[edit] Playing squad

As of November 22, 2006:

No. Position Player GK Peter Mellor DF James McDonagh DF Scott Flanagan DF Andy Street DF Barry Cotterill DF Michael Ryan DF James Heath MF John Hussain MF Rob Brocklehurst MF Andrew Lindon MF Adam Roberts

No. Position Player MF Matthew Smith MF David Carpenter MF Arron Riley MF Wayne Reilly MF Martin McDonald FW Dean Martin FW Adam Stewart FW Adrian James FW Kevin Lea FW Robert Martin FW Lee Wakefield

[edit] Notable Former Players

(club in brackets is the one joined by player after leaving Cheadle Town)

• Ashley Ward (Crewe Alexandra)
• Steve Bushell (York City)
• Dean Crowe (Stoke City)

The main stand at Park Road Stadium

The view from the Main Stand, looking towards the Tennyson Road end

CTFC supporter's flags, reflecting the different colours that the team have worn over the past few seasons

[edit] Honours

• Manchester League Division One
  • Winners 1979-1980
  • Runners-Up 1980-1981, 1981-1982

• Manchester Amateur Cup
  • Winners 1979-1980

• Lamot Pils Trophy
  • Runners-Up 1990-1991

• North West Counties Division Two Trophy
  • Runners-Up 1995-1996

[edit] League Performances

[edit] Trivia

• Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ronnie Biggs and Rajiv Gandhi have all met the club on its foreign tours
• Park Road was used as a training ground for the Portugal squad during the 1966 World Cup
• Brazilian legend Jairzinho hosted a soccer school at Park Road in 1993
• The club's record attendance is 1,700 versus Stockport County in August 1994
• In the 1983-1984 season, they reached the third round of the FA Vase

[edit] References

• Williams, Tony (2005). The Non-League Club Directory. Tony Williams Publications. ISBN 1-869833-49-X.
• RSSSF Football Statistics

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• KF & Polardin's CTFC Blog

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