Statistics

Match Summary
Biggest Home Win	4-1	12/08/23 v Maine Road (First Division South)
Biggest Away Win	4-1	23/09/23 v New Mills (First Division South)
Biggest Home Defeat	1-4	19/08/23 v Abbey Hey (First Division South)
Biggest Away Defeat	0-4	05/09/23 v Ashville (First Division South)
Highest Drawn Game	3-3	15/08/23 v Abbey Hulton United (A) (First Division South)
Highest Aggregate Scoreline	6	15/08/23 3-3 v Abbey Hulton United (A) (First Division South)

 

Season at a Glance
	Home		Away		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%
Played	5		8		13
Won	2	40.00%	3	37.50%	5	38.46%
Drawn	1	20.00%	1	12.50%	2	15.38%
Lost	2	40.00%	4	50.00%	6	46.15%
Scored	8	1.60	11	1.38	19	1.46
Conceded	9	1.80	16	2.00	25	1.92

 

Progression in Cup Competitions
The Isuzu FA Vase	1st Qualifying Round	0-3	Emley	(A)
The Macron Cup	1st Round	v	Cheadle Town	(A)
	To be played on Tue 17/10/23

 

Home Attendance Summary
Highest Attendance	185	01/08/23 v Stockport Town (First Division South)
Lowest Attendance	133	08/08/23 v Stockport Georgians (First Division South)
Average Attendance	5 games	150

 

Number of Games Since
Last Win	0 games
Last Defeat	1 game
Goalless Draw	25 games
Score Draw	8 games
Scored A Goal	0 games
Fail To Score	1 game
Clean Sheet	4 games

 

Scored / Conceded This Season
	Scored		Conceded
	#	%	#	%
None	5	38.46%	1	7.69%
One	2	15.38%	5	38.46%
Two	3	23.08%	3	23.08%
Three	1	7.69%	2	15.38%
Four	2	15.38%	2	15.38%
Five or more	0	0.00%	0	0.00%

 

When the Goals Went In
	For		Against		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%
0-15	3	15.79%	5	0%	8	18.18%
16-30	3	15.79%	2	0%	5	11.36%
31-45	1	5.26%	5	0%	6	13.64%
46-60	2	10.53%	3	0%	5	11.36%
61-75	5	26.32%	1	0%	6	13.64%
76-90	5	26.32%	9	0%	14	31.82%
90-105	0	0.00%	0	0%	0	0.00%
105-120	0	0.00%	0	0%	0	0.00%

 

History

The club was formed in 2004 following the merger of Sandbach Albion and Sandbach Ramblers. They initially competed in the Staffordshire County League, but in 2011 they joined the Cheshire League. They were promoted to the competition's top flight in 2014, and in 2016 they were admitted to the North West Counties Football League Division One, at level 10 of the English football league system.

In the first season in the North West Counties Football League they finished in 6th position, missing out on promotion, and they reached the final of the Reusch First Division Challenge Cup.

In 2017–18 they entered the FA Vase for the first time, but were beaten 2–0 at home by AFC Emley.Also in 2017/18 they beat Tranmere Rovers 2–1 in the Cheshire Senior Cup preliminary round.

The 2018–19 season provided the club with its first trophy since joining The North West Counties Football League as they defeated Avro FC 4–2 to lift The First Division Challenge Cup. The club also made their debut in the FA Cup, joining the competition in the extra preliminary round, but got knocked out by Parkgate in this round.

The 2019–20 season was very different indeed, Sandbach United were unable to replicate the high league position for most of the season and struggled with many player changes which disrupted the team. However they did continue to impress in the challenge cup as holders it gave the team hope of some success. The season was curtailed and declared null and void due to COVID-19, this ironically was to be a blessing a it gave the team chance to regroup and when the league decided to play out the remaining rounds of the cup in September 2020 Sandbach took the chance and went on to retain the cup in an exciting game against AFC Liverpool. The game finished 2–2 with Sandbach coming from behind twice, the cup was ultimately decided on penalties with Sandbach the victors with a 4–3 shootout score. A further piece of luck sees Sandbach get another shot at promotion after the null and void season meant it was four to be promoted again in the 2020–21 season.

The 2020–21 season started well with Sandbach maintaining a play off position throughout the season until once again the season was brought to an end through the pandemic. Sandbach, confident of promotion, sat in the top four and were dismayed when the FA decided that promotion would be based on average PPG over the last two seasons. This resulted in Sandbach dropping out of the top four sides being replaced by Stone Old Aalenian who found themselves promoted and laterally moved. Ironically, missing out on promotion probably saved Sandbach from a lateral move to the Midland league.

The 2021–22 season started well with Sandbach holding the top spot by the end of the August, however through September the team slid down the league with a number of draws falling to 7th place by December. A positive for the season was an extended FA Vase run which saw Sandbach reach the 3rd round proper for the first time in the clubs history beating one of the favourites along the way (Hanley Town) until finally succumbing to Loughborough Students. In January 2022, it was announced by the club that first team manager Andy Hockenhull would step down from his role after 9 years in charge. The club swiftly appointed Declan Swan as caretaker manager whilst the club searched for a permanent manager for the 2022–23 season with the caretaker manager making an instant impact with a euphoric 5–3 victory away in the league to FC IOM. Sandbach being the only team in the season that has secured a victory at the Bowl in the league. After a rigorous interview process with a large number of applicants Declan Swan was appointed as the full time manager for the 2022–23 season. The team spirit lifted and results improved towards the latter end of the season as Sandbach maintained their 8th place in the league. Sandbach were disappointed to be knocked out of the Edward Case cup despite having won it two years in a row to the FC IOM 1-2 in a closely fought game. FC IOM going on to lift the trophy for their first time.

The 2022-23 season starts with the club having once again made ground improvements with the installation of the Andrew Kimber stand as preparations continue to get the ground to a step 5 grading.
With a strong finish to the season Sandbach went into a run of 21 games with 18 wins 1 draw and 2 losses to secure 3rd place in the last 10 minutes of the season securing a home play off semi final against Brocton FC. After a hard fought game Sandbach ran out 3-1 victors on the day and set a new competitive home attendance record of 626. That tone was set and Sandbach faced Cheadle Town for the 4th time in the season in what was to be the biggest game so far in the clubs history. Bad luck struck with 3 strikers suffering injuries in the week before the game but that did not prevent a new record crowd of 1375 witness Sandbach take the lead through Robbie Hatton's goal early in the 1st half only to then see a very good Cheadle side equalise two minutes later and go on to control a large portion of the game. Sandbach pushed on in the 2nd half and were unlucky not to be given a penalty in the 80th minute when Joshua Oultram seemed to be fouled in the box. The referee waived play on and the rest was history after Cheadle countered Sandbach's last ditch attempts to score a 3rd goal (FT 1-3) and Sandbach found their first defeat in months in a cruel blow ending a very good season overall.