Macclesfield F.C.

Macclesfield Football Club is an association football club based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. The club currently competes in the National League North, the sixth tier of the English football league system, and plays its home games at Moss Rose (known as the Leasing.com Stadium for sponsorship reasons). Macclesfield is a phoenix club of the former Macclesfield Town F.C. founded in 1874, which was wound-up after a High Court ruling on 16 September 2020. The club joined the North West Counties Premier Division, the fifth step of the National League system ahead of the 2021–22 season. Macclesfield recorded three promotions in the four subsequent seasons, winning the North West Counties Premier Division in 2022, the NPL Division One West in 2023, and the NPL Premier Division in 2025. The team also reached the semi-final of the FA Trophy in 2024. In 2026, they reached the fourth round of the FA Cup by becoming the first sixth-tier team to beat a top-tier team (Premier League side Crystal Palace, the reigning FA Cup holders).