A championship-winning women's football team has vowed to fight moves by a rival to kick it out of its home stadium. Bury FC Foundation Women clinched the Lancashire County Championship on the final day of the season in May playing at Gigg Lane three years after the men's senior team dropped out of the Football League.
The club is due to play all its home games at Gigg Lane in the coming season after being promoted to the Premier Division. But claim as part of merger proposals between Bury FC and Bury AFC to get men's football back to Gigg Lane it has emerged Bury AFC want their women's team to move to the stadium too.
The move has triggered a robust response from Bury FC Foundation Women's team. In a statement it's committee said: "There is a women’s team already at Gigg representing Bury FC. They do not need replacing and any action to so does not represent the values that should be at the very heart of what is now a community facility."
