Tribal Football
·16 September 2020
Judge delivers Macclesfield Town winding up order after 146 years
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·16 September 2020
Macclesfield Town, founded in 1874, have been wound up after a judge was told the football club owe more than half a million pounds.
Judge Sebastian Prentis made a winding up order at a virtual hearing in the specialist Insolvency and Companies Court on Wednesday, reports the London Evening Standard.
He was told the club owe over £500,000, including nearly £190,000 in tax and more than £170,000 to two other creditors.
Lawyers representing HM Revenue and Customs had applied for a winding up order.
The judge said he could see nothing which gave him "any comfort" that the club can pay the debts.
He was overseeing the latest in a series of hearings.
Macclesfield have recently been relegated from the fourth tier of league football into non-league football.