Salford City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system. The club was founded as Salford Central in 1940, and played minor local league football until winning a place in the Manchester League in 1963. Salford were winners of the Lancashire Amateur Cup in 1971, 1973, and 1975 and the Manchester Premier Cup in 1978 and 1979. The club joined the Cheshire County League in 1980, which amalgamated into the North West Counties Football League (NWCFL) two years later. They changed their name again in 1989, to Salford City, and secured promotion into the Northern Premier League (NPL) in 2008. The club survived in the league on the final day of the following season, an achievement known in club folklore as The Great Escape.
In 2014, Salford were taken over by former Manchester United players Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, and Paul Scholes, with Singaporean businessman Peter Lim owning the rest; David Beckham purchased a 10% share from Lim in 2019. In August 2024 Gary Neville acquired Lim's stake in the club, and on 8 May 2025 the Club announced it had been acquired by an ownership group, led by David Beckham and Gary Neville, including US-based businessman Declan Kelly and Mervyn Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch. Salford play their home games at Moor Lane, which underwent a major transformation between 2016 and 2017, and is currently known as the "Peninsula Stadium" for sponsorship purposes. The club have primarily worn tangerine shirts and black shorts throughout their recorded history, before switching to red shirts and white shorts following the takeover. The club's nickname, The Ammies, stems from their name from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Salford Amateurs. The club's anthem is The Pogues cover of "Dirty Old Town", a song written by Salford local Ewan MacColl.
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Key to seasons League Two = EFL League Two National League National League North NPL Premier Division = Northern Premier League Premier Division NPL Division One North = Northern Premier League Division One North NWCFL Division One = North West Counties Football League Division One
Key to symbols and positions = Winners = Runners-up = Promoted = Relegated
Key to rounds EPR = Extra Preliminary Round PRE = Preliminary Round QR1 = First Qualifying Round QR2 = Second Qualifying Round QR3 = Third Qualifying Round QR4 = Fourth Qualifying Round R1 = First Round R2 = Second Round R3 = Third Round R4 = Fourth Round R5 = Fifth Round QF = Quarter-finals SF = Semi-finals RU = Runners-up W = Winners Group Stage R32 = Round of 32 R16 = Round of 16
Seasons +List of seasons, including league division and statistics, cup results and top scorerSeasonLeagueFA CupEFL CupFA TrophyEFL TrophyOtherTop goalscorerDivisionLvlCompetitionResultNameGoals1990–91NWCFL Division One 9366102030682819th1991–92NWFCL Division Two 1034149115741517th1992–93NWFCL Division One 9421513145861589th1993–94NWCFL Division One4211102150674318th1994–95NWCFL Division One42992445853621st1995–96NWCFL Division One421052749933520th1996–97NWCFL Division One428122253823622nd1997–98NWCFL Division One421342564924318th1998–99NWCFL Division One401571863735210th1999–2000NWCFL Division One421771870695811th2000–01NWCFL Division One42231098741797th2001–02NWCFL Division One44291059140973rd2002–03NWCFL Division One421712138463639th2003–04NWCFL Division One4214111762665315thPREFA VaseQR22004–05NWCFL Division One421192268904218thPREFA VaseR32005–06NWCFL Division One42231097946795thQR3FA VaseR12006–07NWCFL Division One42269710355874thEPRFA VaseR22007–08NWCFL Division One 3826667535842ndPREFA VaseT42008–09NPL Division One North 84010624591073620thQR2QR1Steve Foster172009–10NPL Division One North 401681863745611thQR3QR32010–11NPL Division One North 4417111668736212thQR1PRE2011–12NPL Division One North 4214101869735213thPREQR22012–13NPL Division One North 4211131865794616thQR2PRE2013–14NPL Division One North421572068805212thPREPREMark Battersby112014–15NPL Division One North 4230579242951stQR2PREGareth Seddon242015–16NPL Premier Division 746279109448903rdR2QR1Danny Webber162016–17National League North642221197944774thQR3QR3Mike Phenix162017–18National League North 4228778045911stQR2QR3Jack Redshaw172018–19National League 5462510117745853rdR1R3Adam Rooney212019–20League Two 43713111349465011thR1R1WinnersAdam Rooney92020–21League Two461914135434718thR2R2R2Ian Henderson182021–22League Two4619131460467010thR2R1Group stageBrandon Thomas-Asante132022–23League Two46229157254757thR1R1Quarter-finalsConor McAleny, Matt Smith92023–24League Two4613122166825120thR1R3Group stageMatt Smith142024–25League Two461815136454698thR3R1Group stageCole Stockton112025–26League Two46256156151814thR4R1R32Daniel Udoh10
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