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Full name | Newcastle Town Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Castle, Castle | ||
Founded | 1964 | ||
Ground | Lyme Valley Stadium, Newcastle-under-Lyme | ||
Capacity | 4,000 (300 seated) [1] | ||
Chairman | Gavin Appleby | ||
Manager | Neil Baker | ||
League | Northern Premier League Division One West | ||
2023–24 | Northern Premier League Division One West, 14th of 20 | ||
Website | newcastletownfc.co.uk | ||
Newcastle Town Football Club is a football club based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One West and play at the Lyme Valley Stadium.
The club was formed as a Sunday league team in 1964. [2] They joined Division Two of the Mid-Cheshire League in 1982 and went on to win the division at the first attempt, losing only one game all season and scoring 102 goals in 30 games. [3] The league was then reduced to a single division and the club went on to win the League Cup in 1984–85 and the league title in 1985–86. [4] [3] With the club in financial difficulties, they then merged with Parkway Clayton. [2] After winning the Sentinel Shield and finishing as runners-up in the Mid-Cheshire League in 1986–87, [4] the club were promoted to Division Two of the North West Counties League. [3]
Newcastle Town were Division Two runners-up in 1991–92, earning promotion to Division One. [3] The following season saw them win the league's Floodlit Cup. [4] They won the Walsall Senior Cup in 1993–94 and retained it the following season, as well as winning the Sentinel Cup. [4] the club were Division One runners-up as well as winning the Floodlit Cup for a second time in 1995–96. [4] In 1996–97 they reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 2–0 at home to Notts County in front of a record crowd of 3,948 in a match played at Stoke City's Victoria Ground. [1] [3] The season also saw them finish as runners-up in Division One and win the League Cup. [4] The club went on to finish as runners-up in Division One again in 1999–2000, also reaching the FA Vase semi-finals, where they lost 3–1 on aggregate to Deal Town. [3]
In 2004–05 Newcastle Town were Division One runners-up for a fourth time. [3] Division One was renamed the Premier Division in 2008 and the club were Premier Division champions in 2009–10, earning promotion to Division One South of the Northern Premier League; [3] they also won the Staffordshire Senior Cup, beating Port Vale 6–1 in the final. [5] The club were Division One South runners-up the following season, qualifying for the promotion play-offs, but lost 3–0 to Grantham Town in the semi-finals. [3] A third-place finish in 2014–15 was followed by a 3–1 defeat by Sutton Coldfield Town in the play-off semi-finals. [3]
The club play at the Lyme Valley Stadium, next to the Lyme Brook on Buckmaster Avenue. The ground doubles as a velodrome, with a cycling track around the pitch. [6] The ground includes a seated stand on one side of the pitch and a covered standing terrace on the other. [6] Both ends of the ground consist of uncovered standing areas. [6] It currently has a capacity of 4,000, of which 300 is seated and 1,000 covered. [1]
The ground also currently hosts Stoke City Reserves.
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