Non-League Paper

Now it’s all over for Crane Sports

Having won the league’s Senior Division four times and also the Suffolk Senior Cup four times, decided to call it a day after landlords Gresham’s Sports and Social Club said that they were no longer able to provide football facilities.

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 April 2021

ONE of England’s most successful Step 7 sides in recent years, reigning Suffolk & Ipswich League champions Crane Sports, have decided to fold.

Crane chairman Lyndon Barnett said: “It is a decision that has been extremely difficult to make.

“It was a combination of commercial, financial and logistical factors that ultimately sealed our fate.”

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