There was another club in Accrington who played at Stanley Street Working Mens Club and when Accrington FC folded, they added the town name to their club and became Accrington Stanley.
The Stanley joined the Football league in 1921 and stayed there, with admittedly little real success, until 1962 when they were voted OUT of the league, finishing bottom of the old Division 4. They were replaced by Oxford United.
Accrington Stanley didn't last much longer after that and that, so we thought, was the end of the story, but in 1970 a new club was formed, also naming itself Accrington Stanley and they joined the Lancashire Combination.
They gradually worked their way up the football pyramid and in 2003 reached the Conference, one step below the League. It only took them three more years and in 2006 amid huge celebrations, they won the Conference Championship and the following season took their place in the 4th tier of the League, now called League Two but in effect the same old Division 4 that they had left 44 years previously. Ironically one of the teams that lost their place in the League that year was.... Oxford United.
Official site: http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/
Ground: The Fraser Eagle Stadium, Livingstone Road, Accrington, Lancs BB5 5BX
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