This was to be Chester's last season at Sealand Road, as they were controversially moved out by their new owners and left homeless at Moss Rose, Macclesfield for the next two seasons. The decision to leave Sealand Road was taken at relatively short notice, on 20 March 1990, when an Edinburgh based consortium took the club over and announced its intention to redevelop Sealand Road as a supermarket, with a ground-share to take place elsewhere until a new stadium in the city was completed. The ground-sharing deal with Macclesfield Town was not completed until 12 July, ending fears that the club, then in the Third Division, could miss the deadline to find a stadium and end up being expelled from the Football League.