Congleton Town are from the grand old
Cheshire market town of
Congleton, and were founded back in 1901. They currently play in the
North West Counties Football League Premier Division - the ninth level of the English game - but have played in practically every league in the Cheshire and Macclesfield area, winning five of them... these being the Cheshire County League Div 2, Mid Cheshire League Champions, Macclesfield & District League, North Staffs & District League and the Crewe & District League. So as you can see, they like to move about a bit.
The Bears have made the first round of the FA Cup on only the one occasion, when they lost 2-0 away to Crewe in 1989. They play at the 5000 capacity Booth Street ground, although their highest ever gate came when
Macclesfield Town payed them a visit in the Cheshire County League in 1953 - no one's entirely sure how many people squeezed in, but they stopped counting at 7000.
These days though the gates are a bit lower, and averaged at 113 over the season in 2008/09. However, we're quite sure that if their old Cheshire County League mates Macclesfield came to pay them a visit that they could get near to filling the old place again. Although we'd hope that they've got a bit better at counting since the last time...
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