Ossett Town F.C.
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| Full name | Ossett Town Association Football & Social Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Town, The Reds, Ingfielders |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Ground | 4G Voice & Data Stadium Ossett West Yorkshire |
| Capacity | 1,950 |
| Chairman | James Rogers |
| Manager | Grant Black |
| League | Northern Premier League Division One North |
| 2015–16 | Northern Premier League Division One North, 17th |
Ossett Town Football Club are an English football club based in Ossett, in West Yorkshire, playing in the Northern Premier League in the 2015–16 season at The 4G Voice & Data Stadium.
In 1936, at a public meeting chaired by the Mayor of the Borough of Ossett, a former Yorkshire League referee called John Carter was given the task of bringing to Ossett the highest possible standard of football.
The new club, to be known as Ossett Town Football Club, played in the Leeds League (later renamed the West Yorkshire League in 1939), played on a pitch behind the Fern House Working Mens Club on Wakefield Road and used various local pubs as headquarters.
During World War II, the team switched to the Heavy Woollen League and had to use a pitch on Back Lane when the army commandeered Fern House. After the war in 1945, Town joined the Yorkshire League and three years later won the West Riding County Senior Cup, beating Salts 4–2 at Bradford City's Valley Parade. In 1950, Town finished 3rd, our best position in the Yorkshire League, scoring a record 120 goals that season.
Attendances at some games were well over 1,000, during the 1940s and 1950s, the Yorkshire League contained the 'A' teams of Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, Doncaster and so on, top players learned their trade in these teams, such as John Charles, Denis Law, Ray Wilson, Peter Swan, Tommy Taylor, Jackie Charlton and many others. In January 1957, Derrick Blackburn was transferred from Ossett Town to Swansea Town for £1,350. This fee enabled Ossett Town to acquire the Ingfield site in the centre of Ossett and the club moved to their new ground in 1959, just after being relegated from Division 1, Town bounced straight back at the first attempt, but were relegated again in 1962.
By 1970, Town were members of the newly formed Division 3. About this time, the long serving player, Frank Lloyd, became manager and he signed up two former Newcastle & Huddersfield strikers, Len White and Jim Kerray.
Frank eventually became secretary and was replaced as manager by John Riley. Town were promoted in 1973, but were relegated back to Division 3 in 1975. Again Town won promotion from Division 3 in 1976, but this time they stayed up and won promotion to Division 1 in 1978. However they were relegated again in 1980.
In 1982 Town again won the County Cup beating Bradley Rangers 2–0 at Huddersfield Town's Leeds Road ground in the final season of the Yorkshire League finishing runners up in Division 2. Ossett Town joined the newly formed Northern Counties East League in 1982/83. Initially they played in Division 1 North to 1984, then Division 1 Central for a year before joining Division 2.
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