Castleton Gabriels Football Club are an English football club based in Castleton, near Rochdale, Greater Manchester.The club was founded as a church team in 1924, under the name St. Gabriels F.C. Until the 1960s, its players had to be Catholic and regularly attend both church and Sunday school. Once these restrictions were lifted, the club began to win regional trophies. They moved to their present ground, Butterworth Park, in 1979, and joined the Manchester Football League in 1984, having previously played in the Rochdale Alliance League. In 1990, the club's name was changed to Castleton Gabriels and they joined the North West Counties Football League, but they began to struggle at the turn of the century when their main benefactor stopped contributing and they had their worst ever season in 2003/4, conceding over 100 goals and finishing bottom of the league. They were bottom again in 2004/5, but were not relegated in either season as the league was under-subscribed.Their start to the 2005/6 season was no more impressive, with a 10–2 defeat to F.C. United of Manchester on 10 December leaving them bottom of the league on −3 points, having had four points deducted for registration irregularities.
Ground Address: Butterworth Park, Chadwick Lane, off Heywood Road, Castleton, Rochdale. OL11 3BY.
Telephone: 01706 527103.
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Hi
Are Gabriels issusing regular programmes this season?
I came last March ( v Ashton Town) and despite a decent game there was neither programme nor admission charge.
Thanks.
There is a Promgramme that is issued for £1 on the door, or atleast there has been for most of this season.
And as for the No admission charge? not too sure...Jim may have been making himself a pie!
Hi, I am an AFC Liverpool supporter and we are at your place on Saturday, some places we have been to this season have not had enough programmes on sale, could you please order a few more than your usual allocation, about 200 would be my estimate as even if you had a few over, some people might want one at a later date. Thank you. Peter AFC Liverpool.
Hi, how can you get to play for gabriels and how old do you have to be? im currently 16, 17 in November and there is a lack of clubs, please contact at : Harry.yearsley@btinternet.com
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