Silsden Association Football Club, nicknamed “The Cobbydalers,” is a non-league football club based in Silsden, West Yorkshire.
Established in 1904, they currently compete in the Pitching In Northern Premier League Division One East, which is part of the eighth tier of English football. The team calls The Regal Interiors Stadium their home ground.
A village side adopted blue-and-white colours and settled on Keighley Road, winning the Keighley Charity Cup at the first attempt. Over the next four decades it claimed nine Charity Cups, three Keighley & District League titles and an Airedale & Craven crown while switching between local competitions and becoming a founder member of the West Riding County Amateur League.
Silsden AFC enjoyed Wharfedale and Craven successes after the war, then a prolific but turbulent spell: County Amateur and West Yorkshire League titles, a 49-match unbeaten run and seven Keighley Cups between 1970 and 1976. Repeated disciplinary expulsions forced the first team to disband in 1988, yet the Sunday outfit Silsden United kept the ground alive until a youth-led revival began in 1996.
That squad rose unbeaten through the Craven and County Amateur leagues, entered the North West Counties League in 2004 and, after a stint at Cougar Park, raised £1 million to return home in 2010. Highlights include an unbeaten 2002-03, a 103-point title in 2017-18 and sustained step-five status. Since 2019 the club has played in the Northern Counties East League, added terraces, launched a development side and rebuilt its women’s team while running one of Yorkshire’s largest junior sections.