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West Allotment Celtic Football Club is a football club who based at East Palmersville Sports Pavilion, Palmersville, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but are temporarily playing at Craik Park, Morpeth. They are currently members of the Northern League Division One but due to abandoning too many matches, they have been forced to forfeit the rest of the season and have subsequently been relegated.
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Formed in 1928 in West Allotment, a village in North Tyneside, the club played in junior leagues for their first 55 years. They then joined the Northern Alliance in 1983 and won the title eight times before joining the Northern League in 2004. The club then won the Northern League Second Division at the first attempt, gaining promotion to Division One, where they remained until 2011 when they were relegated back to Division Two. West Allotment have participated in the FA Vase since the mid-1980s and have reached the 4th round (the last 32 stage) twice in their history, in successive seasons 2003–04 and 2004–05. They entered the FA Cup for the first time in 2005–06.
The club went on to achieve their highest ever finish in the English Football Pyramid following the conclusion of the 2022–23 season with the club finishing 5th in the Northern League Division One.
On 14 November 2024, the club issued a statement confirming that they were 'on the brink of folding', issuing a plea for investment. Following a two-week suspension of fixtures from the Northern League, the club announced that following a strong response from the community, they would be able to resume fixtures.
In March 2026, the club resigned from the Northern League following a number of postponements due to last minute player withdrawals.
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