On March 6th 1962, Accrington Stanley resigned from the Football League with debts around £60,000, a lot in those days! They had no money to pay electric bills, gas, water, telephone, let alone pay players. Several days later the club's directors changed their mind but by then the Football League decided it was too late, so their 33 matches in the League were declared void. The Lancashire town, Accrington, then was 44 years without a Football League club.
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/accrington-stanley-who-are-they.html
There was a team from Accrington in the Football League at the League's founding in 1888. Five years later the club folded and a new one was formed based on Stanley Road at the local Working Man's Club and known as Stanley Villa. Eventually the two merged to form Accrington Stanley.
The club eventually played in the Lancashire Combination and joined the Football League Third Division North in 1921, coming 5th in the division,, staying there until 1962 when they left the Fourth Division with no record.
That season the following clubs were in the same division as the Accies:
York City, Wrexham, Aldershot, Workington, Barrow, Darlington, Southport, Exeter, Chesterfield, Chester, Bradford PA, Hartlepool, Halifax....to name a few!
For four years, the Accies played in the Lancashire Combination and made its home at the Bold Street WMC, moving to the Crown Ground in 1970.
The sale of local lad Brett Ormerod to Southampton and a "sell on clause" financed the club's revival winning the Northern Premier League in 2003 and they were promoted to the Football League after winning the Conference in 2005-6. The club is presently in League One having been promoted in 2017-18 from League Two.
The motto reads "Industry and Prudence Conquer". Well mainly!https://accringtonstanley.co.uk/club-info/history/
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