Halifax Town Association Football Club were an English football team who most recently played in the Conference National. The club went into administration during the 2007–08 season, and after finishing 20th in the Conference National, were demoted by three divisions to the Northern Premier League Division One North when the club failed to get a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) passed. The club was reformed and renamed F.C. Halifax Town in Jul...
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Halifax Town Association Football Club were an English football team who most recently played in the Conference National. The club went into administration during the 2007–08 season, and after finishing 20th in the Conference National, were demoted by three divisions to the Northern Premier League Division One North when the club failed to get a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) passed. The club was reformed and renamed F.C. Halifax Town in July 2008.
The club played at The Shay (hence the reason for their nickname "The Shaymen") in Halifax, West Yorkshire, which is now the home of F.C. Halifax Town.
The club was formed in 1911, they played in the Yorkshire Combination and the Midland League and were one of the founder members of Football League Third Division North in 1921, and remained in that division until restructuring in 1958.
The club nearly always struggled financially as well as with its discipline. It was relegated from the Football League Third Division in 1963 and was re...
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