The club made the decision to change its name from Parkhouse FC in April 2012 in an attempt to secure a better geographic identity than it had achieved over the previous twenty-three years under the former name.

The name was taken from the Clay Cross Town team that had originally formed in 1909 after the amalgamation of the Clay Cross Works FC and Clay Cross Zingari FC. In their first season they won the Derbyshire Senior Challenge Cup being the first team from the town to do so.

The club folded though in 1911 with debts owing to the princely sum of £12. The club re-emerged in 1919 and played their football in the Derbyshire Senior League. They enjoyed a period of success for the next five-years before once again closing the doors as the premier team of the town in 1924.

Eighty-Eight years later we chose to take the club, for the first time into the 21st century and once again Clay Cross can officially boast a ‘Town’ club.

There has been no change to the members of the club or the management team so the club will offer the same level of hospitality that previous visitors have enjoyed at Mill Lane and welcome everyone to our friendly club. The four links of the chain on the new club badge are there to depict the four trustees that were so important to the purchase of the Mill Lane ground in 1993 and the development of the Parkhouse club in its formative years..

This season also sees a new ground sponsor with another local company showing its support and we will now be playing at the ‘ATB Civil Engineering’ Ground.

After many years wait we can now boast our second season with floodlights on the ground, the acquisition of the lights being funded only by ourselves with no grants from the FA or county association. Clay Cross will therefore again be able to compete in the Floodlight Trophy this term after losing out in the final last season.