The English Football League have booted Bury out, having failed to prove their financial viability.
Shakers owner Steve Dale had been given until 5pm on Tuesday to come up with a plan for paying the club’s debts and funding them going forward or sell them to someone who can.
The move from the EFL will now almost certainly result in the 134-year-old club being liquidated.
Bury, who gave Manchester City their greatest ever player in Colin Bell, have been around longer than most – in fact, only five clubs have played more league football in England than the historic Shakers.
Since first playing in 1894, Bury have played 4852 matches with Notts County, Preston, Burnley, Wolves and Derby playing more, with the latter four being among the founder members of the Football League.
Not only that, in 2005 Bury became the first club to score 1,000 goals in each of the top four leagues, with all four coming at their Gigg Lane home.
Having already postponed Bury’s first five scheduled league games this season and kicked them out of the EFL Cup, the league had made it clear to Dale there would be no more added time after he was given an extension to the last deadline on Friday night.
League One will now proceed with 23 clubs for the remainder of the season and only three clubs will be relegated in order to bring the division back to 24 teams next season.
That plan, however, could change if Bolton are also expelled in the coming days.
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Bury have been around for 134 years and have been a part of English league football for longer than most
1885: Club is founded on April 24 through a merger between two church teams, the Bury Wesleyans and Bury Unitarians. The club leased a plot of land on Gigg Lane on the Earl of Derby’s estate. Gigg Lane remains their home ground and is one of the oldest football grounds in the world.
1887/88: Bury enter the FA Cup for the first time.
1889: Bury become foundation members of the Lancashire League. They were back-to-back champions of that competition in 1890/92.
1892: The clubs wins the Lancashire Cup, beating Everton in the final. Before the match, chairman JT Ingham was reported to have roused the players by saying: “We shall shake ’em. In fact, we are the Shakers!” The nickname remains to this day. The 1892 Lancashire Cup was the first of 11 such titles stretching to 2017/18.
1894: The Shakers are admitted to the Football League. They win the Second Division title in 1894/95 by nine points, gaining promotion to the top tier.
1900: Bury win the FA Cup, beating Southampton 4-0 in the final.
1903: The club claims the FA Cup again, downing Derby 6-0 in the final, having conceded no goals throughout the tournament.
1925: Bury come fourth in the First Division – their highest-ever top tier finish.
1929: The club is relegated from the top level, and have not returned since.
1957: Bury drop out of the Second Division for the first time.
1971: For the first time, Bury are relegated to the fourth tier.
1997: Two successive promotions under manager Stan Ternent lift Bury to the second tier for the first time in 30 years.
2001/02: Financial problems linked to the collapse of ITV Digital take Bury into administration and close to folding. A campaign from supporters raises enough money for the club to survive.
2005: Bury become the first club to score 1,000 goals in each of the top four leagues.
2012: The Shakers have a transfer embargo placed on them after financial trouble due to poor attendances.
2018/19: Bury finish second in League Two to win promotion to the third tier. Businessman Steve Dale buys the club in December 2018 and pays an outstanding tax bill to avoid a winding-up order. But financial trouble returns in mid-2019