Norton United FC

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Norton United F.C. was a football club based in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. They were established in 1989 and joined the Staffordshire Senior League in the same year. They were the Midland League champions three times, North West Counties Football League champions in 2013–14, and were promoted to be members of the Northern Premier League Division One South. On April 9 2015, it was announced that Norton United would resign from the Northern Premier League at the end of the season and fold.The club's ground was the Norton Cricket Club & Miners Welfare Institute. They played in black and red striped shirts, black shorts and black socks.HistoryAlan Tittensor, who realised that there was the potential to form leading junior football club at Norton Cricket Club, formed Norton United Football Club in 1989.The team entered the Staffordshire Senior League for the 1990–91 season. After a couple of years, during which the foundations were laid, the club started to gain success, and won the first of its trophies with a 2–1 win over Redgate Clayton in the League Cup.The Staffordshire League merged with the Midland League in 1994 and further success followed and the Midlands Division One Senior League and Staffordshire Cup double was won in 1997 having been runners up the year before. The League success was emulated in 1999 along with a victory in the prestigious Staffordshire FA Senior Vase Final. The League and Cup double was repeated in 2001 and this was followed by promotion to The North West Counties Football League Division Two for season.

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Norton United FC is Stoke-on-Trent based place and this enity listed in Landmark category.