Stalybridge Celtic F.C.
association football club in Stalybridge, England
Stalybridge Celtic Football Club is an English football club based in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One West and play at Bower Fold. The team traditionally plays in a blue and white strip.
In 1921, Stalybridge Celtic became a founder member of the Football League's Third Division North. After only two seasons in the new league, they became the first club to leave the new division.
History
The club's formation is usually given as 1909. However, it may have been as early as 1905 when an amateur club with the same name was formed. There were players called Storrs and Manwood who played in the 1906 and 1909 teams, and a player called Rhodes who played in the amateurs' first game; a Herbert Rhodes was a significant benefactor of the 'later' Celtic.
The club played for two seasons in the Lancashire and Cheshire Amateur League, before turning professional and joining the Lancashire Combination in 1911–12, winning the title in its first season, but withdrawing from the competition to play in the Central League - the following season a Celtic reserve XI replaced Tyldesley Albion in the Combination after the latter had played one match in the season. Celtic finished in fourth place in the Central League in 1912–13, and was runner-up in 1913–14.
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