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Nickname(s)
  
The Highwaymen

Ground Capacity
  
1,000 (100 seated)

Manager
  
Nick Gray/ Dave Malone

Ground
  
Craik Park Morpeth

Chairman
  
Ken Beattie

Founded
  
1893

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Full name
  
Morpeth Town Association Football Club

League
  
Northern Football League Division One

Morpeth Town Association Football Club is a football club in Morpeth, Northumberland, England, which plays in the Northern League Division One. Their home ground is Craik Park. The club's traditional colours are amber and black stripes.

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Club history

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Morpeth Town were founded in 1893 following the amalgamation of Morpeth United and Morpeth F.C. They played their home matches at Stobhill Cricket Field. They joined the Northern Football Alliance in the 1936–37 season. The club moved to Storey Park in 1954. In the 1983–84 season they were the Northern Football Alliance champions. They won the Northern Alliance Challenge Cup in 1986 as well as the Benevolent Bowl.

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In 1994 the club moved to Craik Park and again won the Northern Alliance title and with it promotion to the Northern League Division Two for the 1994–95 season. The following season they were promoted to Division One as champions. In the club's first season in Division One they finished in sixth place and were runners-up in the Northumberland Senior Cup. In 2007 Morpeth beat Blyth Spartans to win the Northumberland Senior Cup at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. They beat Hereford 4–1 in the 2016 FA Vase final.

Current squad

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Committee

  • Chairman: Ken Beattie
  • Club & Match Secretary: Andrew McDonnell
  • Commercial Manager: John Richardson

    • Stadium

    Morpeth play at Craik Park, at Morpeth Common. It has 100 seats in a small stand and is surrounded by a 400-metre cinder track. The track was built in 1972 and is still used for training by Morpeth Harriers Athletics Club, but not competitions.

    Morpeth Town moved to the stadium in 1994 and named the stadium Craik Park after father and son W and R Craik who had served as club secretary between 1920 and 1985.

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    Since then the club has built a covered stand, a new clubhouse, installed floodlights and erected a high fence around the ground.

    League

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  • Northern Alliance Champions (2): 1983–84, 1993–94
  • Northern Alliance Runners-up (5): 1937–38, 1965–66,1973–74, 1981–82, 1984–85
  • Northern League Division Two Champions (1): 1995–96

    • Cup

  • FA Vase Winners (1): 2015–16
  • Northern Alliance Challenge Cup Winners (3): 1938–39, 1985–86, 1993–94
  • Northern Alliance Challenge Cup Winners (4): 1936–37, 1962–63, 1973–74, 1985–86
  • Northumberland Benevolent Bowl Winners (1): 1978–79, 1985–86
  • Northumberland Senior Cup Winners (2): 1886 (shared with Shankhouse), 2006–07
  • Northumberland Senior Cup Runners-up (1): 1996–97, 2014–15
  • Aged Miners Cup Winners (4): 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1987–88

    • References

    Morpeth Town A.F.C. Wikipedia
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