Town Football Club in 2002. Mick Garton, who became chairman that year, invested nearly £200,000 in the team's facilities ahead of the 2002–03 campaign in order to ensure that the ground met the standards that would be required for promotion from the League. That season, Carlton topped the Central Midlands League Supreme Division; the club then spent three campaigns in the Northern Counties East Football League's Division One, at the tenth tier of the football league system, finishing third in 2004–05. The team were promoted to the ninth tier when they finished as League champions in 2005–06, also establishing a club record in the FA Vase that year by reaching its third round. 2006–07 saw Carlton promoted once again, this time to the Northern Premier League Division One South at tier eight. The club finished tenth out of 22 in 2007–08 but challenged for promotion in the following year, eventually losing in the League's 2008–09 playoff semi-final 5–2 to Stocksbridge Park Steels, for whom future England international Jamie Vardy scored a hat-trick. Carlton finished ninth in 2009–10 and replaced Brookbanks by appointing Les McJannet as manager. Despite initial relegation fears, Carlton placed eighth in 2010–11. After being runners-up and playoff semi-finalists in the division's 2011–12 contest, the team's League form dipped in the following seasons as they finished twelfth, tenth, and eighteenth respectively. In combination with poor tournament results in 2014–15—contrary to the previous two seasons, which twice saw the team reach the FA Cup's third qualifying round—this led to McJannet's resignation. His assistant Wayne Scott took charge beginning with the following season. Scott's tenure saw poor League finishes of no higher than eighteenth. Relegation had only been avoided by the club after the 2018–19 season because of ground grading problems at fifteenth-placed A.F.C. Mansfield, which was demoted from the League in Carlton's stead. Brookbanks, alongside Mark Harvey, returned to replace Scott in May 2019. Their first full season was abandoned owing to COVID-19. Geographical reorganisation of the Northern Premier League has meant that Carlton has played in Division One East in 2018–19 and from 2022–23, Division One South East in 2019–20 and 2020–21, and Division One Midlands in 2021–22. Early 2020 presented significant financial challenges, firstly due to ground damage caused by Storm Ciara, and then a drop in revenue because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 2021–22 season saw the club place sixth in the League, narrowly missing out