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| Full name | Alsager Town Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | The Bullets | ||
| Founded | 1968 | ||
| Ground | Wood Park Stadium,Alsager | ||
| Capacity | 3,500 (250 seated)[1] | ||
| Chairman | Terry Greer | ||
| Manager | Warren Jones | ||
| League | North West Counties League Division One South | ||
| 2024–25 | North West Counties League Division One South, 11th of 18 | ||
| Website | https://www.alsagertownfc.co.uk/ | ||
Alsager Town Football Club is afootball club, based inAlsager, Cheshire, England. The club are currently members ofNorth West Counties League Division One South and play at Wood Park Stadium. Affiliated to theCheshire County Football Association, they also operate a reserve team in theStaffordshire County Senior League and a youth team in the North West Youth Alliance.
Established in 1968,[2] the club joined theMid-Cheshire League in the 1971–72 season.[3] In 1973 they were renamedAlsager Town,[4] a name they retained until 1985 when they becameAlsager United.[5] In 1988 the club reverted to its original name.[5] 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.[6]
The club reformed in 1989 and joined the Premier Division of the Crewe League.[6] 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 theMidland Football League in 1998. They finished as runners-up in their first season, earning promotion to Division Two of the North West Counties League.[3] In 2001 the club were renamed for a fifth time, becomingAlsager Town again.[4] They finished second in Division Two inNorth West Counties League, earning promotion to Division One.[4] They won the Leek Cup in the same season.[2]
The2005–06 season saw Alsager finish third in Division One, resulting in promotion to Division One of theNorthern Premier League (NPL).[4] At the end of theirfirst season in the NPL the league added an extra division, resulting in Alsager Town being placed in Division One South.[4] Although they finished fourteenth in the eighteen-club division in2007–08, the club were relegated back into the renamed Premier Division of the North West Counties League after failing ground grading criteria.[7]
Alsager remained in the Premier Division until the end of the2015–16 season when they were relegated to Division One.[4] When the division was split in 2018, they were placed in Division One South
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,[8] resulting in them largely playing away from home until November that year.[6] The stadium currently has a capacity of 3,000, of which 250 is seated and 1,000 covered.[1]
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