Chesterfield FC

Chesterfield Football Club is the local team which currently plays in Football League Two, the fourth tier of English football.

The club enjoy a fierce local rivalry with near neighbours Mansfield Town, as well as other rivalries with Notts County, Nottingham Forest, Rotherham United, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United,Grimsby Town and Doncaster Rovers.

Chesterfield FC is the 4th oldest Club in the Football League, which makes it the 4th oldest in the World!

Chesterfield’s greatest triumph’s were in the 1990s, when they won the Division Three playoff final at Wembley in 1995 and reached the FA Cup semi-finals two years later.

The team’s most notable achievement of recent years occurred in 1997, when they reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, losing to Middlesbrough in a replay following a 3-3 draw at Old Trafford. The first match should have however been a win for Chesterfield, after referee David Elleray missed the ball crossing the Middlesbrough goal line line in extra time, when TV replays shown it clearly did. The mistake is often remembered as one of the biggest refereeing mistakes in the history of the competition.

They were the first club from outside the top two divisions to reach this stage of the competition since 1984 (Plymouth Argyle).
Chesterfield play their home games at The Recreation Ground, which is more commonly known as Saltergate after the road on which it is located.

It has a capacity of 8,504, and is one of the oldest football grounds still in use today. However, the club is planning to build a new ground adjacent to the A61 on the outskirts of the town, on a redeveloped site formerly occupied by the Dema Glass factory. It is expected to be a 10,500 all-seater stadium. Although formal planning permission has not yet been confirmed, the club anticipate the ground will be ready during the 2009-10 season.

In March 2007, Roy McFarland was dismissed as the club’s manager, and replaced by his assistant Lee Richardson.

Website: Chesterfield-FC