Tonight we welcome Cleethorpes Town to The Regional Electrical Services Stadium. This Northern Premier League East Division fixture is The Colls third league game of the season, on the back of an opening day defeat and an away victory at Pickering Town. Cleethorpes have began their season taking one point from their opening two games. They started with a 2-0 away defeat at Marske Utd, before getting a point at home in a 4-4 draw with Lincoln United.
Over the years there has often been high scoring games between Ponte and Cleethorpes, this stretches back to our Northern Counties East days. Our last encounter saw six goals in a 4-2 home win for Cleethorpes in 2019, with the reverse fixture seeing Colls win by three goals to nil.
Cleethorpes Town Football Club is a football club based in Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire, England. he club was established by Tommy Watson in 1998 as the Lincolnshire Soccer School. In 2008 the club adopted their current name ‘Cleethorpes Town’. The 2016/17 season saw Cleethorpes reach the FA Vase final and were beaten at Wembley by South Shields.
Cleethorpes developed as a fishing village. By the time of the 1801 census the population was 284. The 1820s saw the first developments of Cleethorpes as a health holiday resort, with sea-bathing and the taking of medicinal waters becoming fashionable. By 1831 the population had increased to 497. The name Cleethorpes actually comes from the words of clee and thorpes, Clee means clay and thorpes means villages in Old English. Local residents from Lincolnshire and the Humber area call Cleethorpes ‘Meggies’.