Moor Lane - Salford City

Salford City - Moor Lane

Salford City Football Club

The Peninsula Stadium

Moor Lane

Salford

Manchester

M7 3PZ

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HISTORY/FACTS ABOUT THE AMMIES:

• Salford City Football Club were formed in 1940. They were formed as Salford Central and competed in the lower leagues until 1960.
• The club won it's 1st trophy by winning the Lancashire Amateur Cup in 1973.
• The club adopted its current name of Salford City in 1989. In 1990, it returned to the final of the Manchester Premier Cup, losing to Curzon Ashton; it also entered the FA Cup for the first time. They were relegated out of Division One into Division Two at the end of the 1990–91 season, though a league restructuring saw them promoted again the following season. The club made another appearance in the final of the Manchester Premier Cup in 2002, this time losing to Ashton United.
• In the 2007–08 season Salford, under the management of Gary Fellows, finished second in Division One of the North West Counties League and were thus promoted to Division One North of the Northern Premier League, the eighth tier of the English football league system.
• The club suffered a difficult start in the Northern Premier League, losing six of their first seven matches, which resulted in Fellows being relieved of his managerial duties in October 2008 and former Bridlington Town and Stockport Sports boss Ashley Berry taking over.
• The 2009–10 season saw strong performances in the qualifying rounds of the FA Cup and the FA Trophy, but the club continued to struggle in the league. In February 2010, having lost four of their last five home matches, Salford parted company with Paul Wright rather than appoint a permanent successor, chairman Darren Quick took the unusual step of taking on the role of caretaker manager himself for the remainder of the season. Under Quick, the team again enjoyed a strong finish to the season, taking 36 points from the remaining games and finishing eleventh in the table.
• In May 2012, the club appointed ex-professional Darren Sheridan as the new manager. The 2012–13 season started well in the league, and the club also enjoyed a local derby in the preliminary round of the FA Cup against FC United of Manchester. Over 1300 fans were in attendance at Moor Lane to watch the Ammies narrowly lose in a five-goal thriller. Sheridan's tenure at the club lasted only 8 months though, and he resigned from the club in January 2013 after a review of the club's budget. The club appointed Andy Heald as caretaker manager, before announcing his appointment on a full-time basis a month later.
• Ahead of the 2013–14 campaign, the club appointed Barry Massay and Phil Power as joint managers and Salford based businesswoman Karen Baird took over as chairman from the long-serving Quick. The new management team got off to a strong start and were unbeaten after the first six games of the season, however, form began to dip and in October 2013 the decision was made to reshuffle the management team with Power assuming sole managerial responsibility and Massay dropping down to an assistant managerial role, before subsequently leaving the club completely a month later.
• In March 2014, news broke of the proposed takeover of the club by former Manchester United players Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt, subject to Football Association and Northern Premier League approval, with the deal expected to be completed by the summer.
• The club reached the 1st Round of the FA Cup for the first time in their 25-year association with the competition having defeated fellow league side Whitby Town, Curzon Ashton and Bradford (Park Avenue) from the National North League and Southport from the National League in the Qualifying Rounds. In front of a sell out crowd of 1,400 with many millions more watching live on BBC Television, Salford scored a famous win over League Two side Notts County by 2–0 at Moor Lane. The 2nd Round saw them drawn at home to Hartlepool United, also from League Two, and again the tie was televised live by BBC Television in front of another capacity crowd. A creditable 1–1 draw meant a replay in Hartlepool – a game that was televised live by BT Sport – but despite outplaying their hosts in normal time, Salford with the backing of 500 travelling supporters eventually succumbed to two unopposed goals in extra time.

MY VISIT:

Salford City 1-1 Port Vale

Saturday 17th August 2019

League Two



Orginally my plan for this day was Bury v Gillingham. But as Bury hadn't kicked a ball so far this season due to off the field problems mainly with their moron of a chairman Steve Dale, it would result in the game being suspended. So with already having train tickets from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly, and noticing Salford v Port Vale wasn't a million miles away, it would be rude not to go and tick another of the 92 off. So, sticking with the original plan of leaving home after 8, I would arrive into Manchester around 12.20 and nipped to the bookies to put some bets on. I would then jump on the Metrolink and arrived into Crumpsall after around a 15 minute tram ride and arrived to the ground around 2pm. I wanted to get there earlyish to get a decent spot as I had an idea the ground would pack out fairly quick what with Salford being promoted to the Football League for the 1st time in the club's history only last season.

The game shortly afterwards kicked off, and it wasn't a bad game to watch. 2 fairly even sides, which went into the break goalless but Vale took the lead on 81 minutes from Richie Bennett which was a smart finish which looked like Vale would be going home with 3 points, only to be denied at the death by Jake Beesley's header on 93 minutes from Tom Walker's cross. (Highlights of the game down below the page) I made the walk back to Crumpsall station as I needed to get back to Piccadilly station for my booked 18.35 train and got back in plenty of time with over 35 minutes to wait. Whilst doing that I was keeping check of the Man City - Spurs score as that was a 5.30 kick off only to hear later on Man City were to be denied a winner thanks to VAR. After leaving at 6.35pm, I would arrive home around 11pm. A nice enough ground to visit I felt with decent enough atmosphere.

THE GROUND:

Salford City have been playing at Moor Lane since 1978 and has had recent development on the ground between 2016 and 2017. The ground's capacity is 5,108 and recently saw their biggest attendance there against Leeds United in the Carabao Cup in August 2019. Away supporters are located in the East Terrace which is behind one goal and also given seats as well on the side of the pitch. Getting to the ground by train is a bit of a pain, the route I done was getting to Manchester Piccadilly station then a metrolink tram to Crumpsall and then from there it was around a 30 minute walk.

GROUND PHOTOS:

Highlights.