Marsden F.C.

Marsden
Full nameMarsden Football Club
Nickname(s)The Cuckoos
Founded1907; 117 years ago (1907)
as Marsden United
GroundFall Lane
Coordinates53°35′56″N 1°55′39″W / 53.5988°N 1.9275°W / 53.5988; -1.9275
LeagueYorkshire Amateur League
Supreme Division (2024-25)

Marsden Football Club are a football club based in Marsden, England and known as The Cuckoos.[1]

Founded in 1907 as Marsden United, the club joined the Huddersfield and District Association Football League (HDAFL), a competition they won a number of times.[2] They entered the Yorkshire Combination in 1913, but the competition disbanded the same season.[3] The "United" was dropped in 1930, and between 1937 and 1971, Marsden F.C. competed in the South East Lancashire Amateur League and the West Riding County Amateur Football League (WRCAFL), regularly switching between the two. The 1950s were the club's heyday, during which they won 11 trophies.[2]

Marsden played in the 1950–51 FA Cup, beating Meltham 3–2 in the extra preliminary round, before losing 2–0 to Yorkshire Amateur in the preliminary round.[4]

In 1971, Marsden rejoined the HDAFL, but by the early 1980s had dropped to its bottom, fifth division. To address the slump, the club merged with Marsden Juniors and Marsden Old Boys, meaning the village had a single, unified club. The strategy initially worked, with Marsden winning the WRCAFL in 1994 and 1998. However, in 2019, they resigned from the HDAFL and did not field a men's team.[2]

Marsden returned to league football following the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023–24, they played in and won the Yorkshire Amateur League Championship division, winning promotion to the Supreme division for 2024-25..[5]

  1. ^ "Home". Marsden Football Club. 5 September 2018. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference bayly was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Rundle, Richard. "Marsden United". Football Club History Database.
  4. ^ Rundle, Richard. "Marsden". Football Club History Database.
  5. ^ "Marsden FC". The Football Association.