FC Halifax were initially placed in the Northern Premier League Division One North, the eighth tier of English football ahead of the 2008–09 season.

Under manager Neil Aspin, the club won three promotions, reaching the top division of non-League football by 2013.

[6] Halifax reached the FA Cup 4th qualifying round that season: eventually losing to Wrexham in front of a record crowd of 2,843.

[citation needed] Halifax started the 2010–11 season in the Northern Premier League, (the 7th tier of English football).

New-signing Jamie Vardy (who would later play for Leicester City and the England National Team) helped fire Halifax to back-to-back promotions to the Conference North as top scorer with 22 goals.

Once again, Halifax would lose in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup to a fifth tier side; this time it would be a narrow defeat to Mansfield Town.

[9] They finally won the title after winning 2–0 at Retford United and gained automatic promotion to the Conference North.

Vardy was replaced as Halifax's main striker by Lee Gregory (who would later play for Millwall and Stoke City in the Championship).

For the first ever time, Halifax reached the 1st round of the FA Cup: a televised home tie against League One leaders Charlton Athletic.

In the FA Cup, Halifax took Conference Premier side Lincoln City to a replay in the 4th qualifying round.

In the FA Trophy Halifax reached the quarter-finals of the tournament, eventually losing out to 5th tier side Dartford.

[13] The National League (5th tier) was the highest level that the newly formed FC Halifax Town side had played at since formation.

[16] From March onwards, the Shaymen won 9 of 10 matches (keeping 7 clean-sheets) Halifax finished their first season in the Conference play-off positions (the highest placed semi-professional team in the country).

[17] During pre-season, Lee Gregory was sold for £250,000 to Millwall after being Halifax's top scorer for three consecutive seasons (scoring 18, 20 and 29 goals respectively).

[19] Eventually, form dropped off in the league with too many draws (15), leaving Halifax Town in 9th place at the end of the season.

[25] Jim Harvey became caretaker manager, he turned the club's fortunes around but couldn't prevent Halifax's relegation back to the National League North following a draw against Macclesfield Town.

[42] Under Millington, FC Halifax finished 11th and won the 2023 FA Trophy final at Wembley, defeating Gateshead 1–0.

Despite not having met since and rarely beforehand, Halifax fans still view Burnley as being the club's biggest rival and make reference to it in several chants.

Despite Bradford being a similar distance away from Halifax as Huddersfield is and having met each other far more times, isn't considered as fierce a rivalry.

Smaller rivalries were also formed with Bradford Park Avenue, FC United of Manchester and Harrogate Town.

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