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Rochdale Town F.C.

Rochdale Town
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Full name Rochdale Town Football Club
Nickname(s) The Angels
Founded 1924 (as St. Gabriels)
Dissolved 2016
Ground Mayfield Sports Centre
Ground Capacity 1,500
Chairman Mark Canning
Manager Dave Brown
2015–16 Division One, 10th (demoted)

Rochdale Town Football Club was an association football club based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. The team was due to compete in the Manchester League Premier Division, and play their home matches at Castleton Sports Centre, in Castleton, Rochdale, which has a capacity of 1,500. They were originally known as St Gabriels and then Castleton Gabriels, before adopting their present name. The club has had a number of nicknames including the Angels, the Messengers, the Guardians, the Castlemen and the Garrison. They are full members of the Lancashire County Football Association. The club folded in 2016.

The club was founded in Castleton as the church team of St Gabriel & the Angels in 1924, under the name St. Gabriels F.C. Until the 1960s, the club's players had to be Catholic and regularly attend both church and Sunday school. Once these restrictions were lifted, the club began to win regional trophies. They played in the Rochdale Alliance League and moved to their present ground, Butterworth Park, (since renamed as Castleton Sports Centre) in 1979. They joined the Manchester Football League in 1984.

In 1990, the club's name was changed to Castleton Gabriels and they joined the North West Counties Football League Division Two for the 1990–91 season and finished their first season in the league in 11th place. They spent the next few seasons usually finishing in mid-table, with the 1995–96 season seeing the club achieve their highest league place to date, in 4th place. However, the 2000–01 season saw them finish in 17th out of twenty clubs. By the 2003–04 season they finished in last place, 20th, conceding 128 goals. Results did not improve the following season, when they were again in last place, conceding 111 goals. They were not relegated as the league was under-subscribed and there is no direct promotion to or relegation from the league. There were three spare places in Division Two. However, although there are six feeder leagues, none of the clubs that qualified for promotion were able to meet the ground requirements. They came close to being expelled from the league when their ground was deemed not to be of the required standard. They were though allowed to groundshare with Oldham Town. After improvement work was done they returned to their home ground in December 2005.


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