Gresley Rovers F.C.
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| Full name | Gresley Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Moatmen |
| Founded | 1882 (as Gresley Rovers) |
| Ground | Moat Ground, Church Gresley |
| Capacity | 2,400 |
| Chairman | Barry North |
| Manager | Damion Beckford-Quailey |
| League | Northern Premier League Division One South |
| 2016–17 | Northern Premier League Division One South, 18/22 |
Gresley Football Club are an English football club from Church Gresley, near Swadlincote, Derbyshire. Gresley play in the Northern Premier League Division One South, playing their home games at the Moat Ground. They were known as Gresley Rovers until 2009, when they were reformed under their current name.
Gresley Rovers were formed in 1882 in the small mining village of Church Gresley, near to Swadlincote, Derbyshire. The club's first ground was at Mushroom Lane in Albert Village a mile or so from Church Gresley. Gresley played only friendlies and cup games before joining the Burton Junior League for the 1892–93 season, winning their first title in 1894–95. Rovers acquired a new home, the Church Street Ground, in time for the 1895–96 season. Despite the ground's lack of facilities (the teams changed at the nearby Boot Hotel) the club were accepted into the Midland League for the 1903–04 season where they struggled for three seasons, to the local league in 1905. At the end of the 1907–08 season the Church Street Ground was required for building, so the club moved across the road onto the newly acquired Moat Ground, where Gresley continue to play to the present.
Rovers stepped up a couple of grades to join the Central Alliance and then moved up again as they joined the powerful Birmingham Combination in 1925. However, despite reaching the First Round Proper of the FA Cup in 1930–31, they experienced financial difficulties and these forced them to leave the Birmingham Combination and join the more local Central Alliance in 1933.
A couple of seasons later they moved to the Leicestershire Senior League and enjoyed success in the immediate post-war years as they won the title in 1946–47 and 1947–48 and were runners-up in 1948–49. At the start of the '50s the club made the decision to join the Central Alliance. However, on this occasion, their stay in that League was only brief and they joined the Birmingham & District League in 1954–55. They then rejoined the Central Alliance in 1959–60 and stayed in that League until 1974–75 during which time the League changed its title to the East Midlands Regional League.
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