Newcastle Town FC
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| Full name | Newcastle Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Castle |
| Founded | 1964 |
| Ground | Lyme Valley Stadium, Buckmaster Avenue, Clayton Newcastle-under-Lyme |
| Capacity | 4,000 (300 seated & 1,000 covered) |
| Chairman | Paul Ratcliffe |
| Manager | Bob Askey |
| League | Northern Premier League Division One South |
| 2016–17 | Northern Premier League Division One South, 7th of 22 |
Newcastle Town F.C. are an English football club based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. They play in the Northern Premier League First Division South. They are full members of the Staffordshire Football Association.
The club was formed as a Sunday league club in 1964. The club as it is now emerged in 1986 following the merger of Parkway Clayton and Newcastle Town, after the original Newcastle Town ran into financial difficulties, and a year after initial merger talks had broken down. They joined the Mid-Cheshire League in Division Two and in their first season, 1982–83 were promoted to Division One as champions, losing only one game all season and scoring 102 goals in 30 games, while conceding just 18. The following season they finished fourth in Division One, then third in 1984–85 and then were crowned Mid-Cheshire League champions in 1985–86. They spent one more season in the league, finishing second, before moving up to the North West Counties Football League, Division Two for the 1987–88 season, when they finished fourth.
After a period of consolidation, a runners-up finish in the 1991–92 season saw the club promoted to Division One, while they also entered the FA Cup for the first time beating Ossett Albion 2–0 in the preliminary round, before losing 2–1 to Bootle in the first qualifying round. They also won their first major honour since joining the league by lifting the Lamot Pils Trophy. In their first season in Division One they finished fifth and also won the Tennants Floodlit Trophy, beating Chadderton at Wigan Athletic's Springfield Park ground. They finished in the runners-up spot in the league two consecutive seasons in 1995–96 and 1996–97. Also in 1996–97 they reached the FA Cup first round proper after winning all five ties in the qualifying rounds before losing 2–0 to Notts County on 17 November 1996, played at Stoke City's Victoria Ground. They were also losing finalists in the Staffordshire Senior Cup and the Walsall Senior Cup, while winning the League Challenge Cup. Third and fourth place league finishes in 1997–98 and 1998–99 were followed up by a third runners-up finish in 1999–2000. That season also saw the club reach the semi-finals of the FA Vase. Starting off in the second qualifying round with a 4–0 home win over Dudley Town they were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals by eventual winners Deal Town 3–1 on aggregate.
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