Crewe Alexandra Football Club is an English professional association football club situated in the town of Crewe, Cheshire, that contends in Association Two, the fourth level of the English football league framework. Nicknamed 'The Railwaymen' on account of the town's connections with the rail business, and furthermore generally known as 'The Alex', they have played at Gresty Road starting around 1906. The allies' fiercest contention is with Staffordshire-based side Port Vale.
The club was shaped in 1877 as the football division of Crewe Alexandra Cricket Club, named after Princess Alexandra. Crewe arrived at the FA Cup semi-finals in 1888 and were then an establishing individual from the Football League Second Division in 1892. In 1921, the club was welcome to join the recently made Football Association Third Division North, where they remained for the following 37 years prior to being put in the new Fourth Division in 1958. The team accomplished their most memorable advancement in the wake of completing third in 1962-63. Crewe were quickly consigned yet were advanced again in 1967-68; they again endured only one season in the Third Division.
Crewe endured 20 years battling in the fourth level before their fortunes were resuscitated under Dario Gradi, administrator for quite some time from 1983. He two times drove the group to advancement to the third level, and after two fruitless play-off crusades, won the 1997 Second Division play-off last to win a spot in the Football League First Division. Following a shortfall of 101 years, they played as of now level level―renamed the Football Association Title before the beginning of the 2004-05 season―for eight of the accompanying nine seasons. Gradi urged Crewe to play alluring, specialized football and fabricated a standing for creating youthful players, with future Britain internationals David Platt, Danny Murphy, Seth Johnson and Senior member Ashton all arising at the club. After Crewe dropped down to the fourth level again in 2009, Steve Davis drove the club to advancement to the third level through the end of the season games in 2012. In 2013, the club won its sole Football League Trophy. Under David Artell, administrator from January 2017, Crewe got back to third level Association One of every 2020 and completed twelfth in the 2020-21 season, however were consigned in 2022.
From late 2016 through to distribution of the FA's Sheldon audit in March 2021, the club — and Gradi — were vigorously embroiled in the football sexual maltreatment embarrassment, confronting analysis for their treatment of youth mentor Barry Bennell, detained in 1995 for youngster sexual maltreatment, and imprisoned again in 2018. Gradi was suspended by the Football Relationship in December 2016, and club director John Bowler surrendered in March 2021.
