History
The History of Chadderton Park
Juniors
Football Club.
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Chadderton Park F.C.
has not always been the efficient, well run Club that you
see today. In fact, the Club’s development from its humble
origins is quite an incredible story.
Early in summer 1977
Jack Halliwell of Ferney Field Road Chadderton, a renowned
football coach and referee, met some lads playing football
in the local streets. He offered to coach the lads in the
basic skills of football and the coaching sessions soon
became a regular event.
By July 1977 Jack
realised he had enough lads training with him to form a
football team. They were: Billy Clynes; Philip Wakeman;
David O’Neill; David McCann; Darren Sutcliffe; Ross Wild;
Stuart Wolfenden; Ian Dickinson; Carl Greaves; Andy Weaver;
Michael Walton; and Jason Bowes.
Jack then enlisted
the help of another local football stalwart, Roy Kelly of
Taunton Road Chadderton to manage the team. The lads were
entered into The Manchester Youth League. They played their
home games on The Haggate at Royton and Chadderton Park
Football Club was born.
As funds were
relatively non existent, they wore green shirts and black
shorts. Jack’s reason for this was that as no other team
wore these colours they would not have to buy an away kit!
The club’s colours have changed little over the years as
today’s teams still wear yellow and green shirts with black
shorts.

1984
“Let’s wear green, then we don’t need an
away kit”
Needless to say the
first season can only be described as “less than successful”
on the pitch and most of the other established teams saw the
opportunity to improve their goal difference against the
“new boys”. However, the dedication of the Managers and the
team saw a complete transformation in the second season. As
well as finishing in a respectable position in the League
table, they made it to the Cup Final where they were
desperately unlucky to lose to a single goal in the dying
minutes of the match against a team that had run up double
figures against them in their first season in the League.
The Club then went
from strength to strength and at one point had eight teams
playing in the Youth League. By the late 1980s Jack
Halliwell decided to stand down from the club and
concentrate on his successful coaching classes at Grange
School. The Club appeared to have hooked Roy though. He
stayed on in one capacity or another for the best part of 25
years!

Some early success. Look what can be
achieved
when players and coaches work together.

In 2001 the F.A. launched its Charter
Standard Scheme which was aimed at raising the standard of
coaching in junior football. Chadderton Park F.C., under the
guidance of Chairman John Lundy, was amongst the first clubs
to enrol in the scheme and by the following year was granted
“Charter Standard” status by the F.A., one of the first in
Chadderton and the borough of Oldham to achieve this
distinction.

In more recent
years the Club has developed its Mini Soccer teams and now
runs at least two teams in each mini soccer age group which
now rivals the number of teams and players in the older
youth leagues.
Steve Lynch
Secretary
Chadderton Park F.C.
