Ossett Town F.C.

Ossett Town Football Club are an English football club based in Ossett, in West Yorkshire, playing in the Northern Premier League in the 2017–18 season at Ingfield Stadium. HistoryIt is 81 years since Ossett Town AFC were formed, during a public meeting in 1936 the Mayor of the Borough of Ossett charged John Carter, a former Yorkshire League Referee, with bringing Ossett the highest possible standard of Football. It has been a steady rise for the Club, who in 2003 /04 won promotion to the NPL Premier Division where we competed for seven season before suffering one of only a handful of relegation’s in our history at the end of the 2010 /11 season, and the first since 1980. 1936–1969: The Early YearsThe club started out in the Leeds League, which was renamed The West Yorkshire League in 1939, before switching to the Heavy Woollen League. So called due to the heavyweight cloth manufactured in the area during World War II. After the War, in 1945, Ossett Town joined the Yorkshire League. In 48 /49 we recorded our record victory in the Extra Preliminary Round of the FA Cup, beating David Brown Athletic 11-0 away from home and in 49 /50 won the West Riding County Senior Cup, the first honour for the club, and finished the season in a club high third place, scoring 120 goals in the process. During this period, and through into the 1950’s the Yorkshire League contained the ‘A’ teams of Leeds United, Huddersfield Town as well as both Sheffield sides, Doncaster Rovers and Barnsley, at this time often topped the 1000 mark. With these sides came players of the calibre of John Charles, Denis Law, Ray Wilson, Peter Swan, Tommy Taylor and Jack Charlton.

Ossett Town Football Club are an English football club based in Ossett, in West Yorkshire, playing in the Northern Premier League in the 2017–18 season at Ingfield Stadium. HistoryIt is 81 years since Ossett Town AFC were formed, during a public meeting in 1936 the Mayor of the Borough of Ossett charged John Carter, a former Yorkshire League Referee, with bringing Ossett the highest possible standard of Football. It has been a steady rise for the Club, who in 2003 /04 won promotion to the NPL Premier Division where we competed for seven season before suffering one of only a handful of relegation’s in our history at the end of the 2010 /11 season, and the first since 1980. 1936–1969: The Early YearsThe club started out in the Leeds League, which was renamed The West Yorkshire League in 1939, before switching to the Heavy Woollen League. So called due to the heavyweight cloth manufactured in the area during World War II. After the War, in 1945, Ossett Town joined the Yorkshire League. In 48 /49 we recorded our record victory in the Extra Preliminary Round of the FA Cup, beating David Brown Athletic 11-0 away from home and in 49 /50 won the West Riding County Senior Cup, the first honour for the club, and finished the season in a club high third place, scoring 120 goals in the process. During this period, and through into the 1950’s the Yorkshire League contained the ‘A’ teams of Leeds United, Huddersfield Town as well as both Sheffield sides, Doncaster Rovers and Barnsley, at this time often topped the 1000 mark. With these sides came players of the calibre of John Charles, Denis Law, Ray Wilson, Peter Swan, Tommy Taylor and Jack Charlton.