Thornton Cleveleys

FORMED
1995

MANAGER
Paul Gregory

GROUND
Gamble Road

TWITTER
@thorntonfc

Current Position: 11th

P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
8	3	2	3	14	14	11

Current Form: 6th

P	W	D	L	F	A
6	3	1	2	16	12

Last Six Matches:

Date	Opponent	Score
11/10/25	Garstang (A)	W 3-2
04/10/25	Droylsden (H)	D 3-3
30/09/25	Colne (H)	L 1-2
27/09/25	Steeton (H)	W 4-0
13/09/25	Maine Road (A)	L 0-3
06/09/25	Maghull (H)	W 5-2

Next Six Matches:

Date	Opponent	K.O.
18/10/25	Garstang (A)	15:00
25/10/25	Daisy Hill (H)	15:00
29/10/25	Maine Road (H)	19:45
01/11/25	Ashton Town (A)	15:00
08/11/25	Bacup Borough (H)	15:00
15/11/25	Colne (A)	15:00

Latest News:

	Thornton Cleveleys win Hereward Tri-Monthly Respect Award!
	The Division One North newcomers have won the award for the second third of the season

Fixtures & Results

Date	Opposition	H/A	K.O.	Score	Goalscorers
Sat 26/07/25	Darwen FC	A	15:00	D 0-0
Sat 02/08/25	Squires Gate	A	15:00	W 2-0	Jackson Bateman (8) Luke Noble (55)
Sat 09/08/25	Ashton Athletic	H	15:00	W 3-2	Oliver Wilkinson (21) Joshua Few (45) Dominic Ritchie (90+1)
Sat 16/08/25	Steeton	H	15:00	L 0-2
Sat 23/08/25	Chester-le-Street Town	H	15:00	W 2-1	Joshua Few (53) Jackson Bateman (75)
	(The Isuzu FA Vase 1Q)
Sat 30/08/25	Nelson	A	15:00	L 1-2	Dominic Ritchie (34)
Sat 06/09/25	Maghull	H	15:00	W 5-2	Archie Lang (25) Luke Noble (42) Luke Noble (50) Luke Noble (69) Luke Noble (85)
Sat 13/09/25	Maine Road	A	15:00	L 0-3
Sat 20/09/25	Colne	H	15:00	Aband
	(The Isuzu FA Vase 2Q)
Sat 27/09/25	Steeton	H	15:00	W 4-0	Archie Lang (22) Jackson Bateman (33) Kyle Higham (45+1) Luke Harris (67)
	(The Macron Cup 1)
Tue 30/09/25	Colne	H	19:45	L 1-2	Archie Lang (7)
	(The Isuzu FA Vase 2Q)
Sat 04/10/25	Droylsden	H	15:00	D 3-3	Jackson Bateman (17) Oliver Wilkinson (26) Daniel Stoney (51)
Sat 11/10/25	Garstang	A	15:00	W 3-2	Samuel Viegas (29) Archie Lang (55) Jackson Bateman (84)
	(The Macron Cup 2)
Sat 18/10/25	Garstang	A	15:00
Sat 25/10/25	Daisy Hill	H	15:00
Wed 29/10/25	Maine Road	H	19:45
	(The Edward Case Cup 1 N)
Sat 01/11/25	Ashton Town	A	15:00
Sat 08/11/25	Bacup Borough	H	15:00
Sat 15/11/25	Colne	A	15:00
Sat 22/11/25	MSB Woolton	A	15:00
	(The Macron Cup 3)
Sat 29/11/25	Daisy Hill	A	15:00
Sat 06/12/25	Ashton Town	H	15:00
Sat 13/12/25	AFC Blackpool	A	15:00
Sat 20/12/25	Droylsden	A	15:00
Fri 26/12/25	Fulwood Amateurs	H	15:00
Sat 03/01/26	Maine Road	H	15:00
Sat 10/01/26	MSB Woolton	A	15:00
Sat 17/01/26	Colne	H	15:00
Sat 24/01/26	Holker Old Boys	H	15:00
Sat 31/01/26	Maghull	A	15:00
Sat 07/02/26	Darwen FC	H	15:00
Sat 14/02/26	Ashton Athletic	A	15:00
Sat 21/02/26	AFC Blackpool	H	15:00
Sat 28/02/26	MSB Woolton	H	14:00
Sat 07/03/26	Steeton	A	15:00
Sat 14/03/26	Holker Old Boys	A	15:00
Sat 21/03/26	Squires Gate	H	15:00
Sat 28/03/26	Nelson	H	15:00
Sat 04/04/26	Bacup Borough	A	15:00
Mon 06/04/26	Fulwood Amateurs	A	15:00
Sat 11/04/26	Garstang	H	15:00

Fixtures & Results

Date	Opposition	KO/Score
Sat 26/07/25	Darwen FC (A)	D 0-0
Sat 02/08/25	Squires Gate (A)	W 2-0
Sat 09/08/25	Ashton Athletic (H)	W 3-2
Sat 16/08/25	Steeton (H)	L 0-2
Sat 23/08/25	Chester-le-Street Town (H)	W 2-1
(The Isuzu FA Vase 1Q)
Sat 30/08/25	Nelson (A)	L 1-2
Sat 06/09/25	Maghull (H)	W 5-2
Sat 13/09/25	Maine Road (A)	L 0-3
Sat 20/09/25	Colne (H)	Aband
(The Isuzu FA Vase 2Q)
Sat 27/09/25	Steeton (H)	W 4-0
(The Macron Cup 1)
Tue 30/09/25	Colne (H)	L 1-2
(The Isuzu FA Vase 2Q)
Sat 04/10/25	Droylsden (H)	D 3-3
Sat 11/10/25	Garstang (A)	W 3-2
(The Macron Cup 2)
Sat 18/10/25	Garstang (A)	15:00
Sat 25/10/25	Daisy Hill (H)	15:00
Wed 29/10/25	Maine Road (H)	19:45
(The Edward Case Cup 1 N)
Sat 01/11/25	Ashton Town (A)	15:00
Sat 08/11/25	Bacup Borough (H)	15:00
Sat 15/11/25	Colne (A)	15:00
Sat 22/11/25	MSB Woolton (A)	15:00
(The Macron Cup 3)
Sat 29/11/25	Daisy Hill (A)	15:00
Sat 06/12/25	Ashton Town (H)	15:00
Sat 13/12/25	AFC Blackpool (A)	15:00
Sat 20/12/25	Droylsden (A)	15:00
Fri 26/12/25	Fulwood Amateurs (H)	15:00
Sat 03/01/26	Maine Road (H)	15:00
Sat 10/01/26	MSB Woolton (A)	15:00
Sat 17/01/26	Colne (H)	15:00
Sat 24/01/26	Holker Old Boys (H)	15:00
Sat 31/01/26	Maghull (A)	15:00
Sat 07/02/26	Darwen FC (H)	15:00
Sat 14/02/26	Ashton Athletic (A)	15:00
Sat 21/02/26	AFC Blackpool (H)	15:00
Sat 28/02/26	MSB Woolton (H)	14:00
Sat 07/03/26	Steeton (A)	15:00
Sat 14/03/26	Holker Old Boys (A)	15:00
Sat 21/03/26	Squires Gate (H)	15:00
Sat 28/03/26	Nelson (H)	15:00
Sat 04/04/26	Bacup Borough (A)	15:00
Mon 06/04/26	Fulwood Amateurs (A)	15:00
Sat 11/04/26	Garstang (H)	15:00

Squad Members

	Start	Sub	Start	Sub	Red	Yellow
Player Name	Appearances		Goals		Cards		Mom
Joshua Alderson	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jacob Aspinall	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jackson Bateman	8	1	4	0	0	0	1
Jordan Beavers	7	4	0	0	0	2	0
Ethan Brough	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Butters	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Cartmell	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Benjamin Duffield	4	6	0	0	0	0	0
Joshua Edwards	6	1	0	0	1	0	0
Franz Eselbock	4	0	0	0	0	1	0
Joshua Few	5	1	2	0	0	0	0
Kiefer Finney	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
John Fraser	6	4	0	0	0	1	0
Lewis Hargreaves	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Harris	1	1	1	0	0	1	0
Kyle Higham	10	0	1	0	0	0	0
Joe Hulme	1	3	0	0	0	0	0
Archie Lang	11	0	3	0	0	3	1
Jordan Moran	8	3	0	0	0	0	1
Luke Noble	8	3	5	0	0	0	1
Dominic Ritchie	1	4	2	0	0	0	1
Oliver Shepherd (GK)	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Smith (GK)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Daniel Stoney	8	1	1	0	0	1	2
Adam Sumner	11	0	0	0	0	1	1
William Thomas	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Samuel Viegas	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Lewis Walmsley	6	2	0	0	0	1	0
Oliver Wilkinson	9	0	2	0	0	2	0
Matthew Wood	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Former Squad Members

	Start	Sub	Start	Sub	Red	Yellow
Player Name	Appearances		Goals		Cards		Mom

Staff Members

Name
Christopher Bond		Coach
Paul Gregory		Manager
Jonathan Hornsby		First Aider
Michael McGarvey		Coach
Mark Smith		Coach

Squad Members

Player Name	Appearances	Goals	Reds	Yellows	Mom
Joshua Alderson	0+1	0	0	0	0
Jacob Aspinall	0	0	0	0	0
Jackson Bateman	8+1	4	0	0	1
Jordan Beavers	7+4	0	0	2	0
Ethan Brough	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Butters	0+1	0	0	0	0
Billy Cartmell	0+1	0	0	0	0
Benjamin Duffield	4+6	0	0	0	0
Joshua Edwards	6+1	0	1	0	0
Franz Eselbock	4	0	0	1	0
Joshua Few	5+1	2	0	0	0
Kiefer Finney	0+5	0	0	0	0
John Fraser	6+4	0	0	1	0
Lewis Hargreaves	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Harris	1+1	1	0	1	0
Kyle Higham	10	1	0	0	0
Joe Hulme	1+3	0	0	0	0
Archie Lang	11	3	0	3	1
Jordan Moran	8+3	0	0	0	1
Luke Noble	8+3	5	0	0	1
Dominic Ritchie	1+4	2	0	0	1
Oliver Shepherd	7	0	0	0	0
Mark Smith	0	0	0	0	0
Daniel Stoney	8+1	1	0	1	2
Adam Sumner	11	0	0	1	1
William Thomas	0+1	0	0	0	0
Samuel Viegas	0+2	0	0	0	0
Lewis Walmsley	6+2	0	0	1	0
Oliver Wilkinson	9	2	0	2	0
Matthew Wood	0	0	0	0	0

Former Squad Members

Player Name	Appearances	Goals	Reds	Yellows	Mom

Staff Members

Name
Christopher Bond		Coach
Paul Gregory		Manager
Jonathan Hornsby		First Aider
Michael McGarvey		Coach
Mark Smith		Coach

Squad Members

Player Name	Apps	Goals
Joshua Alderson	0+1	0
Jacob Aspinall	0	0
Jackson Bateman	8+1	4
Jordan Beavers	7+4	0
Ethan Brough	0	0
Ryan Butters	0+1	0
Billy Cartmell	0+1	0
Benjamin Duffield	4+6	0
Joshua Edwards	6+1	0
Franz Eselbock	4	0
Joshua Few	5+1	2
Kiefer Finney	0+5	0
John Fraser	6+4	0
Lewis Hargreaves	0	0
Luke Harris	1+1	1
Kyle Higham	10	1
Joe Hulme	1+3	0
Archie Lang	11	3
Jordan Moran	8+3	0
Luke Noble	8+3	5
Dominic Ritchie	1+4	2
Oliver Shepherd (GK)	7	0
Mark Smith (GK)	0	0
Daniel Stoney	8+1	1
Adam Sumner	11	0
William Thomas	0+1	0
Samuel Viegas	0+2	0
Lewis Walmsley	6+2	0
Oliver Wilkinson	9	2
Matthew Wood	0	0

Former Squad Members

Player Name	Apps	Goals

Staff Members

Name
Christopher Bond		Coach
Paul Gregory		Manager
Jonathan Hornsby		First Aider
Michael McGarvey		Coach
Mark Smith		Coach

Statistics

Match Summary
Biggest Home Win	4-0	27/09/25 v Steeton (The Macron Cup)
Biggest Away Win	2-0	02/08/25 v Squires Gate (First Division North)
Biggest Home Defeat	0-2	16/08/25 v Steeton (First Division North)
Biggest Away Defeat	0-3	13/09/25 v Maine Road (First Division North)
Highest Drawn Home Game	3-3	04/10/25 v Droylsden (First Division North)
Highest Drawn Away Game	0-0	26/07/25 v Darwen FC (First Division North)
Highest Aggregate Home Scoreline	7	5-2 06/09/25 v Maghull (First Division North)
Highest Aggregate Away Scoreline	5	3-2 11/10/25 v Garstang (The Macron Cup)

Season at a Glance
	Home		Away		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%
Played	7		5		12
Won	4	57.14%	2	40.00%	6	50.00%
Drawn	1	14.29%	1	20.00%	2	16.67%
Lost	2	28.57%	2	40.00%	4	33.33%
Scored	18	2.57	6	1.20	24	2.00
Conceded	12	1.71	7	1.40	19	1.58

Progression in Cup Competitions
The Isuzu FA Vase	2nd Qualifying Round	1-2	Colne	(H)
The Macron Cup	3rd Round	v	MSB Woolton	(A)
	To be played on Sat 22/11/25
The Edward Case Cup	1st Round North	v	Maine Road	(H)
	To be played on Wed 29/10/25

Home Attendance Summary
Average Attendance	7 games	225

Number of Games Since
Last Win	0 games
Last Defeat	2 games
Goalless Draw	11 games
Score Draw	1 game
Scored A Goal	0 games
Fail To Score	4 games
Clean Sheet	3 games

Scored / Conceded This Season
	Scored		Conceded
	#	%	#	%
None	3	25.00%	3	25.00%
One	2	16.67%	1	8.33%
Two	2	16.67%	6	50.00%
Three	3	25.00%	2	16.67%
Four	1	8.33%	0	0.00%
Five or more	1	8.33%	0	0.00%

When the Goals Went In
	For		Against		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%
0-15	2	8.33%	2	0.00%	2	4.65%
16-30	6	25.00%	2	10.53%	8	18.60%
31-45	5	20.83%	2	10.53%	7	16.28%
46-60	5	20.83%	3	15.79%	8	18.60%
61-75	3	12.50%	5	26.32%	8	18.60%
76-90	3	12.50%	5	26.32%	8	18.60%
90-105	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
105-120	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%

History

Thornton Cleveleys Football Club
History
Library records indicate, ICI Ltd founded and sponsored a football team for their workers at the chlorine-production plant in the early 1900’s. Its unconfirmed how long these early beginnings and precursor to the current teams were maintained throughout the early 1900’s but the records show a team known as Thornton Jubilee Football Club in the 1930’s and Trunnah United in the 1950s.
The present seniors club, in its more familiar guise was formed in July 1980 when Ronnie Andrews brought the Thornton Catholic Club side to ICI Thornton and in August of 1981 the club joined the West Lancashire League with Mike Sillis as Manager.
The clubs Reserve side, managed by Ronnie Andrews played in the Premier Division of the Blackpool and Fylde Football Combination.
In 1982 the First team finished the season Division Two Champions.
By 1987 the Reserve side had moved to the West Lancashire League Reserve Division and in 1991 they won the league championship. Following the closure of the ICI Plant at Thornton the club renamed as Thornton International in 1992 and for the 1991/92 season the first team were once again West Lancashire Division Two Champions, and also runners-up in the Presidents Cup.
1995 Thornton-Cleveleys Junior Football Club merged with the open age teams of Thornton International FC, previously known as ICI, to form Thornton-Cleveleys Football Club.
In April of 2003, the first team won the Tavern Cup and the Reserves were double winners in the 2003/04 season being both Reserve Division 2 champions and winning the Houston Cup.In 2010 the first team were Division 1 winners seeing a return to the Premier Division and in 2014 lifted the Lancashire Amateur Shield for the first time.In 2021, after over 20 years at its home on Bourne Way the club spent a transient year while a new £1 million facility was built on their former ICI Football Club ground.
In 2022 Thornton Cleveleys won the West Lancashire Premier Division League and followed a year later in 2023 winning the Presidents Cup. In 2024 the club regained the West Lancashire League title winning in a dramatic ending to a season that was literally decided on the last minute of the campaign. Two weeks previously Thorntons Second team won the West Lancashire Reserve Division.
The Club was promoted to The North West Counties League Division One North in 2024.

Matchday Information

Ground: Gamble Road

Address: Gamble Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire

Postcode: FY5 4JH

Telephone:

Midweek Night: Tuesday

2025/26 Admission Prices: £6.00 (£4.00 Concessions)

Programme Price: £2.00

Directions: From the M55 junction 3 take the 3rd exit sign posted Fleetwood onto the A585.
Continue on the A585 along the new bypass and onto The Amounderness Way through 2 roundabouts.
At the traffic lights with West Drive take the right hand lane and turn right onto West drive.
At the end of West Drive turn left onto Fleetwood Road and 2nd right (mini roundabout) onto Honey Moor Drive.
Continue on Honey Moor Drive onto Gamble Road. The Club is signposted on the right.

Nearest Railway: Poulton-Le-Fylde

Nearest Bus Route to Ground: Fleetwood Road stop and end of Honey Moor Drive to all local routes.

Parking Facilities: 140 spaces free parking including disabled parking.

Ground Facilities: Two Bars and reception rooms serving hot, cold and alcoholic beverages and hot and cold food.

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Club Information

Legal Entity: Unincorporated

Ground: Gamble Road

Address: Gamble Road, Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire

Postcode: FY5 4JH

Telephone:

Website: https://thornton-cleveleysfc.co.uk/

Twitter: @thorntonfc

Registered Colours: Red Shirts, Red shorts, Red socks

Registered Goalkeeper Colours: Pink Shirt, Black shorts, Black socks

Alternative Colours: Blue shirts, Blue shorts, Blue socks

Alternative Goalkeeper Colours: Green shirt, Black shorts, Black socks

Secretary: Neil Walmsley

Chairman: Stephen Abbott

Manager: Paul Gregory

Programme Editor: Aaron Roskell

Committee / Directors: Stephen Abbott, Joanne Beavers, Neil Walmsley, Joanne Walmsley, Tracy Bailes, Willaem Gardner, Lynsey Gardner, Terry Bullion, Nicole Andrews

County Affiliation: Lancashire FA

Year Formed: 1995

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Previous Leagues:

West Lancashire League

Honours:

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Current Position: 11th

Current Form: 6th

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