Crowle Colts F.C.

Crowle Colts FC
Full nameCrowle Colts Football Club
NicknameThe Colts
Founded1992
GroundWindsor Park, Crowle
ChairmanRobbie Pender
ManagerGav Cooper
LeagueNorthern Counties East League Division One
2024–25Lincolnshire League Premier Division, 2nd of 13 (promoted)

Crowle Colts Football Club is an English football club based in Crowle, Lincolnshire. They are currently members of the Northern Counties East League Division One and play at Windsor Park.

History

Pre–World War II, there were three main football clubs in Crowle: Crowle Brickworks, Crowle Institute, and Crowle Town. After the war, the Sun Engineering side was formed and became the main team in Crowle. It had a secondary team named Axholme Wanderers, which was formed for younger players who had played football only intermediately during the war. All of these sides competed in the Scunthorpe League.

In 1966, Crowle Sports, the reformed Sun Engineers side, unexpectedly resigned from the Scunthorpe League a week prior to the start of the season.[1] As a result, all of the remaining Crowle Sports players joined Axholme Wanderers, which left just one main football team in Crowle. Ahead of the 1967–68 season, Axholme Wanderers side reformed as Crowle United. United went on to have great local success, with their most notable achievement coming in the 1970–71 season when they completed a treble, being crowned champions of the Scunthorpe League, as well as winning the Scunthorpe Challenge Cup and the Lincolnshire FA County Junior Cup. In 1973, United joined the Lincolnshire League. They would go on to compete in the league for seventeen seasons, before leaving it at the end of the 1988–89 season due to ground issues, having left their Potts Lane ground to play at North Axholme School, which was deemed unsuitable.

In 1992, Crowle United folded, and the following year, two new clubs were formed: Crowle United Junior Colts, and Crowle FC, the latter of which took Crowle United’s place in Division One of the Scunthorpe League. The two ultimately decided to merge, resulting in the formation of Crowle’s current team: Crowle Colts.

Crowle Colts began life in Division Five of the Scunthorpe League in the 1997–98 season, and with the exception of three seasons in the Gainsborough and District League in the early 2000s, the club stayed in the Scunthorpe League until 2018.

At the start of the 2018-19 season, the Colts left the Scunthorpe League after being crowned champions and joined the Central Midlands Football League.[2] They secured successive promotions the following season, narrowly missing out on the title only on goal difference. In the 2022–23 season, after three seasons in the Central Midlands League, the club joined the Lincolnshire League, following in the footsteps of the Crowle United side that had left the league 33 years prior. That season saw the Colts match Crowle United’s best ever finish in the Lincolnshire League. The 2023–24 campaign saw that record surpassed, as the Colts finished runners-up to Nettleham despite scoring a record-breaking 149 league goals. They also won the Lincolnshire FA County Junior Cup that season for the first time in 53 years.

In the 2024–25 season, Crowle Colts were promoted to the Northern Counties East League Division One for the first time, after finishing second in the Lincolnshire League in the previous campaign. They won the Lincolnshire FA County Junior Cup again that season, completing back-to-back triumphs in the competition.[3]

Ground

Crowle Colts' home ground is Windsor Park, which is located on Godnow Road in Crowle. It was opened by then-Scunthorpe United manager Brian Laws in September 2005. The ground has a maximum capacity of around 500 and is equipped with floodlights, fencing, a pavilion, and other facilities. In October 2025, a 50-seater stand was added to the ground.

The majority of the various Crowle teams of the past played their football at the Sunfield Sports Ground (later renamed Crowle Sports Club), which was located on Potts Lane, Crowle. It closed in 1989 and United moved to North Axholme School, which required the club to resign from the Lincolnshire League, as it was deemed below the league's standards. Crowle Colts initially played at the school before moving to Windsor Park when it was opened in 2005.

Club players and staff

Players

Position Player
GK Zach Beedle
GK Ellis Spencer
DF Kieran Atkin
DF Sam Goodhand
DF Brandon McClurey
DF Tom Moulds
DF Lee Ridley
DF Alex Stenhouse
DF Jordan Welch
DF Jack Wilkins
MF Matthew Allison
MF Henry Cook
MF Matty Fletcher
MF Alfie Fudge
MF Tom Garner
FW Lewis Graham
MF Lewis Greathead
MF Kian Humphriss
MF Fabian Orczyk
MF Ashton Short
MF Matthew Steeper
MF Jaime Ture
MF Elliott Vasalo
FW Declan Bacon
FW Joe Hare
FW Ben Johnson
FW Kurt Robinson

Staff

Position Name
Manager Gav Cooper
Assistant Manager Ben Simpson
Coach Alex Stenhouse
Physiotherapist Jude Day
Chairman Robbie Pender
Ground person Malc Staniforth
Programme Editor/Club Historian Gareth Parkin
Social Media Ian McCluskey
Secretary Oliver Saxon

Honours

Crowle United


Crowle Colts

League positions

Crowle United

Year League Division Finish P W D L F A PTS
67-68 Scunthorpe And District League Three 2nd 26 19 3 4 105 37
68-69 Scunthorpe And District League Two 3rd 26 17 3 7 95 47 36
69-70 Scunthorpe And District League Two 5th 24 10 6 8 76 72 26
70-71 Scunthorpe And District League One 1st 26 18 4 4 77 37 40
71-72 Scunthorpe And District League One 1st 26 23 1 2 89 35 47
72-73 Lincolnshire Football League One 1st 28 19 3 6 82 36 41
73-74 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 13th 28 9 4 15 44 66 22
74-75 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 5th 26 11 7 8 43 33 29
75-76 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 4th 30 16 4 10 67 39 36
76-77 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 5th 28 14 3 11 69 60 31
77-78 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 3rd 26 14 3 9 56 37 31
78-79 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 9th 30 13 3 14 48 44 29
79-80 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 3rd 26 14 6 6 43 30 34
80-81 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 9th 30 13 4 13 49 44 30
81-82 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 8th 30 15 3 12 48 43 33
82-83 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 9th 30 11 8 11 42 53 30
83-84 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 8th 34 12 10 12 62 56 34
84-85 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 6th 32 14 8 10 54 42 36
85-86 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 10th 32 13 5 14 43 48 31
86-87 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 7th 26 10 7 9 40 52 27
87-88 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 5th 32 14 8 10 53 39 36
88-89 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 3rd 28 16 8 4 78 31 56
89-90 Scunthorpe And District League One 2nd 24 17 5 2 62 19 39
90-91 Scunthorpe And District League One 2nd 24 18 1 5 61 25 37
91-92 Scunthorpe And District League One 8th 20 6 1 13 23 40 13
92-93 Scunthorpe And District League One 9th 18 4 0 14 22 54 8
93-94 Scunthorpe And District League One 6th 20 7 6 7 48 34 20
94-95 Scunthorpe And District League One 9th 24 9 4 11 34 51 22
95-96 Scunthorpe And District League One 6th 24 11 3 10 61 39 25


Crowle Colts

Year League Division Finish P W D L F A PTS Notes
1997-98 Scunthorpe And District League Five 2nd 22 16 2 4 80 36 50
1998-98 Scunthorpe And District League Four 5th 20 9 5 6 69 40 32
1999-2000 Scunthorpe And District League Four 6th 18 6 5 7 38 51 23
2000-01 Scunthorpe And District League One 6th 20 9 5 6 72 46 32 Merged with Crowle FC
2001-02 Gainsborough And District League One 10th 20 3 1 16 30 83 10
2002-03 Gainsborough And District League Two 6th 22 9 3 10 42 38 30
2003-04 Gainsborough And District League Two 7th 22 11 2 9 38 36 35
2004-05 Scunthorpe And District League Three 3rd 22 15 4 3 95 29 49
2005-06 Scunthorpe And District League Two 2nd 22 16 4 2 74 21 52
2006-07 Scunthorpe And District League One 4th 22 12 2 8 52 48 38
2007-08 Scunthorpe And District League Three 4th 22 16 3 5 64 32 48
2008-09 Scunthorpe And District League Two 3rd 26 13 8 5 63 37 50
2009-10 Scunthorpe And District League Two 4th 18 8 5 5 36 25 29
2010-11 Scunthorpe And District League One 8th 20 7 3 10 39 46 24
2011-12 Scunthorpe And District League One 9th 18 4 4 10 30 38 16
2012-13 Scunthorpe And District League One 9th 18 2 3 13 17 55 9
2013-14 Scunthorpe And District League Two 5th 18 7 4 7 35 38 25
2014-15 Scunthorpe And District League Two 9th 16 3 1 12 25 48 10
2015-16 Scunthorpe And District League Two 1st 14 14 0 0 79 10 42
2016-17 Scunthorpe And District League One 2nd 14 9 1 4 40 23 28
2017-18 Scunthorpe And District League One 1st 18 15 1 2 72 18 46
2018-19 Central Midlands League One North 2nd 20 17 1 2 42
2019-20 Central Midlands League Premier North 9th 17 6 2 9 20 League Suspended
2020-21 Central Midlands League Premier North 12th 5 2 0 3 6 League Suspended
2021-22 Central Midlands League Premier North 8th 32 13 5 14 44
2022-23 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 3rd 34 21 6 7 71
2023-24 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 2nd 32 23 5 4 74
2024-25 Lincolnshire Football League Prem 2nd 24 18 5 1 59
2025-26 Northern Counties East League One

References

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