Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek, Staffordshire, currently playing in the Northern Premier League Division One South East. The club was founded in 1946 and played in a variety of local leagues including the Staffordshire County League, Manchester League, Mid-Cheshire League and Cheshire County League. In 1997 they were NorthernPremier League champions and gained promotion to the Football Conference, the highest level of English non-league football.
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Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek, Staffordshire, currently playing in the Northern Premier League Division One South East. The club was founded in 1946 and played in a variety of local leagues including the Staffordshire County League, Manchester League, Mid-Cheshire League and Cheshire County League. Leek Town reached the final of the FA Trophy in 1990, having progressed all the way from the first qualifying round, but lost in the final at Wembley Stadium 3-0 to Barrow. In 1997 they were NorthernPremier League champions and gained promotion to the Football Conference, the highest level of English non-league football. In 2006 the club was in such severe financial peril that it was announced it was facing a winding-up order, but on June 11 the following year it was confirmed that a new consortium had taken over the club and secured its future. The team, nicknamed ‘The Blues’, play their home games at Harrison Park and are known as the ‘Leek Lowe Hamil’ team.
Football was played in the area from at least 1876, with an earlier side called simply Leek F. C. having been part of The Combination in the 1890s. The current Leek town club traces its lineage to the formation of a team called Leek LoweHamil in 1946. In 1949–50 the team became the first team to win the title without losing a single match. In 1951 the team switched to the Manchester League and won the championship at the first attempt. In 1954 the team joined the Birmingham & District League but resigned in the middle of the 1956–57 season due to financial difficulties. In 1968 a new committee was formed, under which the club emerged from the doldrums. Manager Paul Ogden took over in 1969 and led the club to two Staffordshire League championships, followed in quick succession by two Manchester League titles. In 1982 the Cheshire League merged with the Lancashire Combination to form the new North West Counties League.
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