History

Football has been played in Staveley for well over a hundred years – this is the path it has taken :-

1883 a Staveley side beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 in the F.A Cup.
1962 Nag’s Head FC formed.
1965 entered the Mansfield League.
1968 transferred to the Chesterfield League
1989 Saturday team formed
1991 entered Sheffield County Senior League winning Division Three and Two.
1993 entered the CMFL in 1993, finishing 4th, 12th, 5th and 3rd.
1997 entered the NCEL finished 2nd/promoted won Wilkinson Sword Trophy
2000/01 relegated.

In May 2007 the clubs football committee resigned on mass and was ready to fold before Terry Damms was appointed as Chairman and put in a rescue package to save the club. The Chairman spearheaded the formation of a new Juniors Section in 2011 and sceured a 25-year lease for the kids pitches on Chantry Park. The Wilkinson Swoard was won in 2008/2009 and in 2009/10. In 2010/2011 the club produced its best ever season with the first team having an array of youngsters in it winning the NCEL Division 1 Title, the reserves winning the Central Midlands Reserve league and the U19’s finishing runners up and winning the Minishield. All sorts of records were broken during that season with us having the NCEL Top Scorer Ryan Damms who netted 38 times and surpassed 100 goals for the club, a record number of consecutive and total clean sheets was achieved and a last 32 FA vase place was also achieved. In 2011/2012 we came within a whisker of appearing in an FA Vase Final at Wembley eventually going out to the winners in the smei final 3-2. In early 2013 the clubs main sponsorship was lost and all but a handful of players and the manager left the club. The 2013/2014 season a mid-table finish was achieved. For the 2014/2015 saw an 11 game winning streak and a 9th finish was achieved. The U21 team was starting to flourish and a top 3 finish and wining the HKLDFL Cup was a superb achievement.

The Chairman decided that new management and direction was needed and in 2015 Brett Marshall was appointed. During his 6-year reign, Brett worked miracles bettering our best ever NCEL Premier League placing and were top in 20/21 when the season was halted due to Covid-19. In 2015/16 the U21’s won the League and were runners up in the League Cup and in 2016/2017 our newly formed reserves side managed to get Promotion from the Central Midalnds Football League Reserve Division to Step 7 in the CMFL that provides us with a fantastic football progression from the Juniors/U18/U19/U21/Step 7 then Step 6 football.

In 2020 we secured £3/4M Football Foundation & Premier League & Viridor funding with a new 3G pitch, floodlights and car parking. Over 500 local kids use the 3G each week. We have also secured £1/2M Town Deal Funding for car parking and a new BTEC Sports Study Building. In 2022 the Chairman decided a reset of the club was needed and a request to relegate to Step 6 was approved by the FA/NLS with a 5-year sustainability plan was put in place.