Grimsby Borough

The title that moved Grimsby Borough up a level came in 2021-22, when they won the Northern Counties East League Premier Division and with it a place in the Northern Premier League Division One East. It was the second promotion of a short climb: they had gone up as champions of the division below in 2018-19, having let the earlier chance slip in the 2016-17 play-off final, beaten 4-2 by Penistone Church.

A club of the same name had been through the Central Midlands League between 1987 and 1991 before it folded. The present one was set up on 21 July 2003 and began again from the bottom, collecting the Lincolnshire Junior Cup in 2007-08.

Home is the Bradley Football Development Centre, which holds 1,250, only 250 of them seated. Barton Town, a few miles across the county, provide the fixture the players circle.

The structure around all this caught up late. In May 2024 the club became a limited company and appointed its first board of directors.

He came to Bradley in 2015, after the professional game was behind him, and turned out six times as an attacking player.