Now a truly fan-owned club, Chester never did revert to their Chester City name after being liquidated in 2010. For Chester, the City was only added to their name in the 1980s, 100 years after its formation.
But looking at Chester back in 2010 reveals details about how they got fans to vote on the club's name.
Fans were given a freephone number to call and vote for their favourite of four potential names for the phoenix club.
Only one vote was allowed per mobile phone number and the vote was open for six days.
Alternatively, fans outside the UK could vote via email (one vote per email, and the email address had to reflect your 'non-UK status').
Fans could also post their votes to a PO box.
More than 14 years on, whether this is still the best way to conduct a vote is up for debate - especially as Chester were not playing any matches at the time.
Though it was a way to get fans from across the world involved. At the time, City Fans United said fans in no less than 20 countries took part in the unique vote, with numbers voting totalling well over a thousand.
In the end, 70 per cent of supporters (887 votes) were in favour of returning to the name of Chester Football Club, which was the club’s name up until the early 1980s. The group said the move "ensures that the 125-year history and tradition of the club continues into the future".
City Fans United's then-press officer Jeff Banks said: “It’s been great to see so many fans having the chance to rename the club, and as the voting shows, the fans want to go back to the name Chester Football Club, as that’s the name that everyone used to associate the Blues with, so now we can well and truly plan our club for the future, but carrying an important piece of history with us on our journey”.
City of Chester FC received 16 per cent of the vote (196), FC Chester managed 9 per cent (110), and Chester Rovers FC with 5 per cent of the votes (68) completed the quartet of names.
Newport County, another club to reform, returned to their original name after 10 years in 1999.