Full name | Morpeth Town Association Football Club |
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Nickname(s) | The Highwaymen |
Founded | 1893 |
Ground | Craik Park Morpeth |
Capacity | 1,000 (100 seated) |
Chairman | Ken Beattie |
Manager | Nick Gray/ Dave Malone |
League | Northern League Division One |
2015–16 | Northern League Division One, 4th |
Morpeth Town Association Football Club is a football club in Morpeth, Northumberland, England, which plays in the Northern League Division One. Their home ground is Craik Park. The club's traditional colours are amber and black stripes.
Morpeth Town were founded in 1893 following the amalgamation of Morpeth United and Morpeth F.C. They played their home matches at Stobhill Cricket Field. They joined the Northern Football Alliance in the 1936–37 season. The club moved to Storey Park in 1954. In the 1983–84 season they were the Northern Football Alliance champions. They won the Northern Alliance Challenge Cup in 1986 as well as the Benevolent Bowl.
In 1994 the club moved to Craik Park and again won the Northern Alliance title and with it promotion to the Northern League Division Two for the 1994–95 season. The following season they were promoted to Division One as champions. In the club's first season in Division One they finished in sixth place and were runners-up in the Northumberland Senior Cup. In 2007 Morpeth beat Blyth Spartans to win the Northumberland Senior Cup at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. They beat Hereford 4–1 in the 2016 FA Vase final.