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Clay Cross Town Football Club is a football club in the town of Clay Cross Derbyshire England, in the North East corner of the county between the towns of Chesterfield and Alferton on the A61 road that joins the two towns together. The club at the moment play in Central Midands Football League (North Division). Which is considered part of the National League System at Step 7. This summer with the floodlights being installed we will be playing FA Vase and FA Cup next season if we finished high enough in the league.

History
From Woodthorpe Inn FC to Parkhouse FC to Clay Cross Town FC.

The club started its days as Woodthorpe Inn playing in the local leagues, till it adopted the Parkhouse title in 1989. This was because the club charged its headquarters to the Parkhouse Hotel at Danesmoor and the title was an acknowledgement to the old Parkhouse Colliery which use to domatate the area and which also ran football teams using the Parkhouse name that were successful for their time. The first season with the new name was a success winning the Chesterfield & District Sunday Football League Division 7, this period saw the club make progess though the leagues with the winning of the Clack Tuner Cup in 1993 the highlight. More importantly it was the year the club purchased a local field 3.4 acres off Mill Lane and become the sole owers giving the club a home. The sum of £8000 was secured by four trustees: Dave Clark, Ron Lunn, Wayne Watson and Mike Golding, the transfer was signed on the 17th June 1993. Up to 2001 the club worked on the ground adding fencing the perimeter, adding drainage, adding storage areas and dug outs allowing the club to take the next step into Saturday football. So for the start of the 2002/03 season the club joined the Hope Valley League and during a three-season spell under managaer Paul Murtage and his assistant Stuart Wall the club won 4 trophies and runner-ups twice and finising the last season as champions.

The following season 2005/06 the club steered in another direction to the Midlands Regional League, the club were placed in the Second Division for this first season. The club stormed the championship and also won the Junior Cup and Derbyshire Divisional Cup North a memorable treble winning season. The following season Division 1 was won and the Junior Cup for the second consecutive season.

At this point the club opted to join the Central Midlands Football League, from this point the club has worked hard to upgrade the facilities every season, from charging faclities to hard standing and the building of PCS Enclosure to the point of being close to installing flood lights. The club is now getting close to be able to make the next step up.

Colours and badge
Clay Cross Town FC's colours are all sky blue with white trim/flash. The kit for the 2014-15 season is sponsored kindly by T Nutt & Son Ltd Carpeting & Flooring Centra in Clay Cross.

The away kit for 2014-15 is Orange Shirt, White Shorts and Orange Socks. and kindly sponsored by PCS Motor Factors a leading car component distributor who have been sponoring the club for over ten years.

The Clay Cross Town FC badge shows the northern portal of the tunnal enterance of the now Midland Main Line that runs under the town. The portal is now a grade 2 listed building and has a Moorish design. The background is Sky Blue as is the first team colours and the badge also has the setup date in roman numerals MMXII (2012). The four links below the numerals represent the four gentleman who backed the club when purchasing the ground.

The Mill Lane Ground
The Mill Lane Ground is location is on the west side of Clay Cross. The town does not have a railway station but does have two main stations close by at Chesterfield and Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway, and a bus can be used to get to Clay Cross. The Bus station is in the centra of the town and from here its about 20-25 minute walk to the ground. At the time of writing this site the 51 service by Stagecoach from Chesterfield does pass the ground and does run a regular service. At the moment the club have hard standing on all four sides of the ground, and cover and seating on the Mill Lane side if the weather is poor. Both ends are open with the far end from the town housing the club buildings and car park. At this end the club have the main enterance the club office, club shop on a match day with the toilet block and groundmans store with the players changing roon and cafe also located at this end of the ground. The final side opposite the stand is also open with a small amount of seating, for the 2014 the club hope to have the floodlights up and running a step needed to make progress in the leagues.

The Other Titles Ground
As with a lot of non league grounds the Mill Lane Ground has had some other names via sponsorship an important part in the funding of a club.


 * 2013-14 I want pet food ground
 * 2012-13 The Devil made me do it ground.

Supporters

 * Behind the Scenes
 * Chairman
 * Mr Michael Golding
 * Secretary
 * The Committee
 * Mr Wayne Watson (1989), Mr Neil Golding (1989), Mr John Gore (2006), Mr Lee Watson (2005),
 * Mr Joe Wright (2008), Mr Mark Gaynor (2007), Mr Martin Roberts (2011) Mr John Else (2012).
 * The Tunnel Cafe Desree Watson/Ashleight White/Valerie Bell
 * First Aid Officer Miss Ashleight White
 * Grounds Man Improvement and Kit Manager Lee Watson
 * Programme Sales and Enterance Gate John Else Joe Wright and Lee Watson
 * Programme Compilation and Editor
 * After Match Hospitality The Woodthorpe Inn Old Tupton
 * Kit Washing and maintenance Val Ball
 * Toto and 50/50 Agent Joe Wright
 * Caretaker and Hospitality Host John Gore
 * 50/50 Match Dat Draw/Marketing Manager/Web Master Martin Roberts
 * Programming Cover Printing and inserts Chris Sorrell Kidde Fire Trainers Ltd
 * Grant Application Manager Mark Gaynor
 * Official Club Photographer/Facebook Martin Roberts
 * Club Captain Jonathan Brook
 * Club Captain Jonathan Brook



Rivals
Clay Cross Towns primary rivals are at the moment I would say are Glapwell as they are the nearest and also within Derbyshire, over the last couple of season Dronfield United and AFC Mansfield were rivals till they moved on up to the NECL by winning the league. However overall, there are very few genuinely fierce rivalries between Clay Cross Town and other clubs in the league, with the club being in the non league system the rivalries are friendly and you tend to find supporters will watch the other local clubs and vice versa.

League Record
PARKHOUSE FC


 * 2007-08  Joined Central Midlands League Premier Division
 * 2009-10  Promoted to Supreme Division
 * 2011-12  Placed in North Division on league re-organisation
 * SEASON   LEAGUE      P    W    D    L    F    A    P      POS
 * 2007-08  CML-P       38   14   12   12   75   63   54      9/20
 * 2008-09  CML-P       28   14    3   11   69   58   45      5/15
 * 2009-10  CML-P       30   19    2    9   80   53   59      3/16
 * 2010-11  CML-Su      34   15    2   17   72   72   47     10/18
 * 2011-12  CML-N       32   16    3   13   79   71   51      8/17

CLAY CROSS TOWN


 * 2012-13  Joined Central Midlands League with new name.
 * SEASON   LEAGUE     P    W    D    L    F    A    P      POS
 * 2012-13  CML-N     32   22    2    8  105   65   68      3/17
 * 2013-14  CML-N     32   17    2    13  68   64   53      6/17

Honours

 * Chesterfield Sunday Football League
 * Division 7 Champions 1989/1990
 * Division 4 Runners-up 1995/1996
 * Division 2 Runners-up 2000/2001
 * Derbyshire Divisional Sunday Cup
 * Finlists 2000/2001
 * Clark-Turner Charity Shield
 * Winners 1993
 * Finlists 1994,1999,2000
 * Hope Valley League
 * Lawrence Cup Winners 2002/2003
 * Premier Division Champions 2004/2005
 * Premier Division Runners-up 2003/2004
 * League Cup Winners 2003/2004
 * Dore Shield Winners 2004/2005
 * Supplementary Cup Finlists 2004/2005
 * Bellfield Midlands Regional League
 * Division 2 Champions 2005/06
 * Junior Cup Winners 2005/2006
 * Division 1 Champions 2006/2007
 * Junior Cup Winners 2006/2007
 * Derbyshire FA Divisional Cup (North)
 * Winners 2005/2006
 * Pete Large Memorial Cup
 * Winners: 2007 & 2008
 * Runners-up: 2010

Other Awards

 * Programme Monthly & Football Collectable
 * Programme of the year 2007/2008
 * Midlands Regional
 * Programmme of the year 2007/2008
 * Frank Harwood Trophy-CMFL
 * Programme of the year 2007/2008
 * Derbyshire
 * Charter Standard Club of the year 2006/2007
 * East Midlands
 * Charter Standard Club of the year 2006/2007
 * CMFL Secretary of the year
 * Dave Clark 2008/2009
 * CMFL Team of the Mouth
 * February 2009, March 2010
 * CMFL Sportsmans Award
 * 2009/2010

Posters Paine Proffitt
Paine Proffitt (born 1972; Phoenix, Arizona) is an American-born artist living in England, best known for his sporting works and for his depiction of the "working man's life". His work has been used by West Brom/Port Vale and Aberdeen and others. His work has been used as programme covers and also does commissioned painting. Clay Cross approached Paine and he kindly did a couple of works for us for the 2014 season.

Other Clay Cross Teams from the past
Clay Cross Town FC are not the first club to carry the town name, there has been Clay Cross FC, Clay Cross and Danesmoor Welfare, Clay Cross Works FC and Biwater and the colliery sides and others before the second world war. Reading programmmes from other teams from this period Clay Cross are described as a poor club little support poor pitch and ground and the facilities have seen better days. This does seem to be the running term in the history of football in the town that finance has always been an issue. There were high points Clay Cross even once won the Derbyshire Senior Cup in

Club Song
Elvis Presley 1957 hit (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear.