| Full name | Salford City Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Ammies | ||
| Founded | 1940 (as Salford) | ||
| Ground | Moor Lane, Kersal, Salford (Capacity: 1,400) |
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| Chairman | Darren Quick | ||
| Manager | Rhodri Giggs[1] | ||
| League | Northern Premier League Division One North |
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| 2010–11 | Northern Premier League Division One North, 12th |
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Salford City F.C. are a semi-professional football club based in the Kersal area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. They are the only semi-professional side in the City of Salford, with Manchester United the closest league club. Salford City currently play in the Northern Premier League Division One North for the 2011–12 season. The club enjoy local rivalries with FC United of Manchester and Irlam. The club's home ground is on Moor Lane in Kersal.
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In the 2004–05 season, the club reached the third round of the FA Vase, and reached the third qualifying round of the FA Cup in the following season, also winning the North West Counties Football League League Cup, beating Skelmersdale United in the final.
The 2007–08 season proved the most successful in Salford City's history, as they finished in second place in Division One (now the Premier Division) of the North West Counties Football League, enough to clinch promotion to Division One North of the Northern Premier League, the eighth level of the English football league system.
A horrific start to the 2008–09 season, resulting in only one win and eight points in twenty-six games, left Salford City rock bottom of the Division One North by March, fifteen points adrift from safety with a terrible goal difference. However, the influence of new co-managers Paul Wright and Neil Hall began to pay dividends; beginning with a 5–3 win away against Lancaster City, the transformed Ammies proceeded on an astonishing run of results, garnering nine wins and a draw from their last fourteen games and finally clinching survival by two points with a 5–2 win away at Garforth Town on the last day of the league season, jumping into 20th place as relegation rivals Rossendale United lost 3–0 at home to Mossley.
The club is currently managed by Rhodri Giggs, the younger brother of Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs.