The present Hanley Town Football Club have now been going for 50 years.In 1966 a group of friends were playing mainly friendly games on a sunday based at The Trumpet Public House in Hanley.(The building is now occupied by McDonalds,facing the Wetherspoons pub).
The friends decided to join a saturday league(Longton League)and changed their name to Hanley Town,(Owen Rhead took on the mangers role in 1966). That very first season the club won the Longton League and the Longton Charity Cup.The team were playing on a pitch rented from a local engineering firm Copestick & Farrell on Victoria Road just outside Hanley,the 1967/68 season the club moved up to the Staffordshire County League(North) and were placed in Division 2,a reserve team was formed and replaced the first team in the Longton League.The season was one of the most successful the combined teams winning six trophies and were runners-up in two other finals.Washing and changing facilties were built at the ground making the club one of the first in the area to have touchline facilities.

1967/68 season;Honours:
Staffs County League (North) Division 1 Champions;
Longton League Champions;
Longton League Cup Winners(vs Meir CA)
Hanley Cup Winners(vs Burslem Albion)
May Bank Cup Winners (vs Milton United)
Longton Charities Cup Winners;
Staffordshire County League Cup Runners-Up(vs Cowlishaw Walker)
Leek Cup Runners-Up(vs Milton United)

The success continued for the 68/69 season with the first team becoming Division 1 Champions and the reserves retaining the Longton League Title.The Longton League Cup was won(vs Fenton BL)the May Bank Cup (vs Wereton QP) and the Hanley Cup(vs Wereton QP) were also won. The first team were also runners-up in the Staffordshire Junior Cup (vs Pelsall Villa), teams from the Mid-Cheshire and West Midlands League also entered the competition.

In 1971 the club lost it's ground on Victoria Road to developers and so the club moved into a groundshare agreement with neighbours Eastwood Hanley who were playing in the West Midlands League at the time, the reserves were able to continue to rent a ground from Johnsons nearby. Both teams were now playing in the Staffordshire County League (North),the first team in the Premier Division, the reserves in Division 1.The 72/73 season the first team became Premier Division Champions, the reserves finished third in Division 1 and the Staffordshire FA Challenge Cup was won beating Roebuck in the final.

With Eastwood wanting to increase the rent for the 1974/75 season to an unacceptable level the club agreed a groundshare with Leek Town.It was a disappointing season on the field the first team finishing 5th in the County Premier Division,with the reserves finishing 12th out of 14 teams in Division 1.The club were runners-up in two cup competitions the Sentinel Cup and the Roger Lomas Trophy.
For the 1976/77 season under the managerial reins of Joe Wills Hanley Town moved into their present ground on Abbey Lane(st2 8aj)where the club started to develop the facilities.The club also took the plunge into joining the Mid-Cheshire League Second Division which was in it's second season.