Ashton Athletic F.C.
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| Full name | Ashton Athletic Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Ashes, Ash |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Ground | Brocstedes Park, Ashton-in-Makerfield |
| Capacity | 600 (100 seated) |
| Chairman | Jimmy Whyte |
| Manager | Jay Foulds |
| League | North West Counties League Premier Division |
| 2015–16 | North West Counties League Premier Division, 7th |
Ashton Athletic Football Club is a football club based in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, England. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Premier Division and play at Brocstedes Park. They are full members of the Lancashire County Football Association.
The club was formed in 1968, initially as a Sunday league club playing in the Wigan Sunday League. After winning every division in the league in successive seasons, they switched to playing Saturday football, joining the Warrington & District League.
Success in the Warrington League saw the club join the Lancashire Combination in 1978. However, the move up saw the club struggle, finishing bottom of the league in 1978–79 and 1981–82. When the league merged with the Cheshire County League to form the North West Counties League in 1982, Ashton were placed in Division Three, which they finished bottom of in both 1982–83 and 1983–84. After a fourteenth-place finish in 1984–85, they finished bottom of the table again in 1985–86.
At the end of the season the club were expelled from the league due to Brocstedes Park failing to meet the ground grading criteria. They subsequently dropped into Division One of the Manchester League. They continued to struggle in the Manchester League, with several lower-half finishes before finishing bottom of Division One in 1989–90. They finished bottom again in 1994–95,
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