Sandbach United F.C.

Sandbach United Football Club is an English football club based in Sandbach, Cheshire. They play in the North West Counties League Division One South, at level 10 of the English football league system. The club is a FA Charter Standard Club affiliated to the Cheshire Football Association. The 2023–24 season saw the team have a relatively poor start in a very busy August and it was catch up all the way from that month onwards after Brocton set the early standard. It was to prove a task too far as Brocton were promoted as champions and Sandbach once again equalled their best ever finish with 3rd place for the second season running, but it was the play-offs again and a home tie in the semi final against a strong Abbey Hey side. It was not to be though as Abbey Hey put the tie to bed early with 3 goals in the first half leaving the Ramblers an impossible task. A bright start to the second half saw Sandbach miss an early opportunity to get back in the game and it was thanks to Harry Cain that Sandbach got a goal back making it an exciting finish but ultimately a 1–3 loss to the eventual play off winners. Another slow start to the 2024-25 campaign again saw Sandbach United fall behind runaway leaders Winsford Utd and Stafford Town but an excellent run of 16 games without defeat once again confirmed a play off spot with 3 games to spare. It was also a good season in the cups with the team making the second round proper of the FA Vase and Cheshire Senior Cup Quarter Finals (the highest ever Cheshire Cup run), a run that included a 3-2 over National League North team Chester FC. Play off's for the third successive season and once again it wasn't to be as The Ramblers lost 5-4 in an entertaining Semi Final versus Stafford Town.

1. Ground

The club play their home games at the Sandbach Community Football Centre. The ground is equipped with six floodlights. On promotion to the league a 50-seat covered prefabricated seated stand was erected in memory of Colin Oakes the former club president. A standing area was also erected. with two small covered standing areas nicknamed the "Shed End", the club has an indoor and outside licensed bar area with hospitality suite known as "The Crossbar". in 2020 an electronic scoreboard was added to the ground, the dugouts replaced and moved to the opposite side of the pitch to facilitate the placement of the second 50-seater stand (The Andrew Kimber Stand) which was opened for the 2022/23 season.

1. Honours

North West Counties League Division One Challenge Cup winners 2018–19, 2019–20 Crewe and District Cup Winners 2015–16

1. References


1. External links

Official website

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Ettiley Heath

Ettiley Heath is a village in the civil parish of Sandbach which is in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The Sandbach ward is called Ettiley Heath and Wheelock. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 4,409. It is west of Sandbach.

Landmark Neighbourhood

Wheelock & Sandbach railway station

Wheelock & Sandbach railway station served the village of Wheelock, in Cheshire, England, between 1893 and 1930. It was built by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR).

Historic Site Landmark

Sandbach School

Sandbach School is an 11–18 boys free school in Sandbach, Cheshire, north-west England. It was established in 1677 by local philanthropists, including Richard Lea, who donated the land for the school, and Francis Welles, who helped to fund the schoolhouse. It was located at Egerton Lodge, Middlewich Road, before moving into a new set of buildings designed by George Gilbert Scott in 1851. Boys are organised into four school houses – Craig, Lea, Ward and Welles, across Years 7–11. In June 2023, 1,509 boys attended the school, with the lower school an entirely boys provision, whilst the sixth form is co–educational. Two-thirds of boys attending the school are from the Sandbach and Haslington area, with the remaining third coming from the Crewe area. The school is the largest provider of adult education in the area. It became a private school in 1945, and a state-funded independent grammar school in 1955. It became a state-funded independent school accepting boys of all abilities in 1979, and became one of the country's first free schools in 2011. The current headteacher is Sarah Burns, who assumed the role in 2008.

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Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College

Sandbach High School is a girls secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Sandbach, Cheshire. The school is located on 10 acres (440,000 sq ft) of grounds on Middlewich Road near the town centre. The school was judged as "Outstanding" by the government inspectorate Ofsted in 2008, and was judged to have retained its Ofsted rating in November 2017. In 2016, the school was ranked in the top 50 schools in the United Kingdom by The Sunday Times Good School Guide.

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