Cheadle Town F.C.

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Cheadle Town F.C. are a football club based in Cheadle, 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.

Contents

1 History
2 Foreign Tours
3 Playing squad
4 Notable Former Players
5 Honours
6 Trivia
7 References
8 External links

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; 1996 saw the start of a five-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 will kick off their 2006-2007 league campaign on Saturday 12th August 2006 at home to Castleton Gabriels

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.

Playing squad

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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)

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

Trivia

Alfredo Di Stefano, 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

References

External links

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