Squires Gate
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Squires Gate
FOOTBALL CLUB
S
quires Gate FC is based on School Road in Lancashire and their first
team currently competes in the Premier Division of the Hallmark
Security League. They are led by the team of President Brian Addison
and Chair Tony Jo and the club is looking to progress under their guidance.
The club was established more than
half a century ago when the Squires Gate
British Legion accepted an offer from
Blackpool Council to take a lease on a
new ground which had been created on
the site of a former tip on the southern
edge of the town. They spent the next
few decades trying to bring the pitch
up to a decent standard and creating
the facilities which were necessary for
league football.
Starting out in 1948, Squires Gate had
proved a capable side from the outset,
winning the Blackpool and District
Amateur League’s Rawling Shield
in their first season. Blackpool FC’s
Wembley triumph in 1953, the conquest
of Everest, and the Coronation were not
the only memorable events in that year,
as Squires Gate became the new name
of the Club, which went on to win the
League title in 1955-56, retaining it in
1959-60, and also lifting the Blackwell
Cup in 1958-59 and 1959-60. Since then
they have gone on to put together a
history to be proud of.
So far this season their first team has
put together a steady league campaign,
compiling a record of fourteen wins,
five draws and eleven defeats from their
thirty matches. This sees them sitting in
the top half of the table with forty-six
points on the board.
This should provide them with a
solid platform from which to build for
the future. As long as they are able to
retain their current group of players and
can perhaps make one or two quality
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