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Halifax Town

FC Halifax Town

Kit impression

Founded

2008

Years standing

Home ground

The Shay

Capacity

10,4015,1085,293 seats

The Trophy Cabinet

Nickname: The Shaymen

Adopting Halifax Town means England National League results start mattering to you, a club going since 2008. Not a novelty, a habit.

Ground floor
Founded in 2008. There is no dynasty to inherit and no bandwagon to be accused of joining, this is a club whose history you can genuinely watch happen.
Something to defend
The cabinet is not empty: National League North (level 6) and Northern Premier League (level 7). Small enough to recite from memory, big enough to argue about in a pub.
Cathedral football
The Shay holds around 1,040,151,085,293. Even a routine league game arrives with a noise floor most clubs only reach in a semi-final.
You get a nickname
Known as The Shaymen. That is your new shorthand, your search term and your excuse for buying a scarf.

Ground: The Shay. Go in a day early, find the pre-match pub, buy the programme.

Nearest airport

Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA)

21 km / 13 miles from the ground

Nearest station

Halifax railway station

Walkable from the platform

Pulling fixtures and table…

Around the ground

Everything within a short walk of the turnstiles: landmarks, museums and the places worth arriving early for.

Landmarks within a 4 km radius

Opens a map centred on the ground. Two hours before kick-off is the sweet spot.

Route Planner

Tell us where you set off from and we will lay out the walk, drive, train and flight options into the ground, with live route links.