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West Midlands (Regional) League
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| Founded | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Country | England |
| Divisions | Premier Division Division One Division Two |
| Number of teams | 49 |
| Level on pyramid | Level 10 (Premier Division) Level 11 (Division One) |
| Feeder to | Midland League Premier Division |
| Domestic cup(s) | Premier Division League Cup Division One League Cup Division Two League Cup |
| Current champions | Wolverhampton Sporting Community (Premier) Wem Town (Division One) Sikh Hunters (Division Two) (2017-18) |
| Website | Official website |
 2018–19 | |
The West Midlands (Regional) League is an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire. It has three divisions, the highest of which is the Premier Division, which sits at step 6 of the National League System, or the tenth level of the overall English football league system.
The league was formed in 1889 as the Birmingham & District League to cater for teams in Birmingham and the surrounding area, but soon became established as one of the strongest leagues outside the Football League itself, with teams from as far afield as Bristol and Wales taking part. After the Second World War it absorbed the rival Birmingham Combination to become firmly established as the leading league in the area, but a gradual decline in its status began in the late 1950s and it now operates at a much lower level than in its heyday.
The league currently acts as a feeder to the Midland Football League Premier Division, to which one team is promoted to each season. Approximately fifty teams compete in the league each season, with new members regularly joining from a number of lower, more local leagues.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Early years
1.2 Post-war years
1.3 Modern era
2 Structure
3 Attendance
4 Current member clubs 2018–19
4.1 Premier Division
4.2 Division One
4.3 Division Two
5 League champions
5.1 Birmingham & District League
5.2 West Midlands (Regional) League
6 References
7 External links
History
Early years
In the late 1880s, Birmingham and the surrounding region boasted many of the country's strongest football teams. Six of the region's leading clubs joined the first two national leagues set up in England, the Football League and the Football Alliance, but there were still many teams in the area keen to participate in league play. On 31 May 1889 a meeting took place at Birmingham's Grand Hotel with the view to forming a Birmingham & District League. A total of 17 clubs were invited but only 13 attended, of which 12 were selected to form the new league, to commence play in the 1889–90 season. The one club which sent a representative to the meeting but was not invited to take part in the league, for unknown reasons, was Worcester Rovers.[1]
The 12 clubs competing in the league's inaugural season were Aston Victoria, Great Bridge Unity, Hednesford Town, Ironbridge, Kidderminster Harriers, Kidderminster Olympic, Langley Green Victoria, Oldbury Town, Smethwick Carriage Works, Unity Gas Department, Wellington St George's, and Willenhall Pickwick. Although Kidderminster Olympic topped the final table, no championship was awarded as a number of fixtures had not been completed.[2] This situation was to be repeated in each of the subsequent two seasons, in both of which Brierley Hill Alliance, who had joined the league for its second season, topped the table but did not win the title.[2] The early years of the league also saw new teams joining and existing ones dropping out almost every season,[3] but once the league's structure settled down, it came to be regarded as one of the strongest leagues outside the Football League itself, rivalled only by the Southern League and the Midland League.[1]
Despite the league's name, in the years prior to the First World War it came to include teams from as far afield as Bristol, Wrexham and Crewe, as well as including the reserve teams of local Football League clubs. A number of clubs which had enjoyed success in the Birmingham Combination also joined the league, which was seen as a step up to a better standard of football.[3] The league's large coverage area began to create problems in the 1930s, however, as many clubs found the long and costly journeys to away matches difficult, and began to drop out in favour of playing in leagues which covered smaller areas. In 1938, Bangor City, Worcester City, Wellington Town and the reserve teams of Cardiff City and Wrexham all resigned from the league,[3] reducing the numbers so much that instead of the usual format the organising committee decided to run two separate competitions each lasting for half of the 1938–39 season, the first named the Keys Cup and the second the League Cup.[4] By the time competitive football was abandoned in 1939 due to the outbreak of the Second World War, the rival Birmingham Combination, which had not chosen to accept teams from such a wide area, had consolidated and come to be regarded as the region's top league.[5]
Post-war years
Although the league lost further clubs to the Combination, which was quicker to restart after the war, within a few years the League had regained its position of pre-eminence in the region, increasing to almost twice its pre-war size.[1] During the 1952–53 season the League's committee proposed a merger of the two competitions, but the Combination rejected the idea, whereupon the Combination's six best teams all resigned and joined the League.[5] The Combination's committee then attempted to re-open the merger talks but, having just bolstered its ranks with six new members, the League was not interested.[5] A year later, all of the Combination's 14 remaining clubs, with the exception of West Bromwich Albion's 'A' (third) team, left to join the League, which effectively absorbed its former rival.[6] The 40 member clubs were split into Northern and Southern divisions, which a year later were re-arranged into Divisions One and Two, with promotion and relegation taking place between the two.[7]
At the end of the 1957–58 season, Burton Albion and Nuneaton Borough left to join an expanding Southern League, followed a year later by Hinckley Athletic.[8] In an attempt to consolidate the league decided to expel all remaining reserve teams, reducing to a single division of 22 clubs.[9] Four years later it changed its name to the West Midlands (Regional) League to more accurately reflect its catchment area, which now included very few teams from Birmingham or its immediate environs.[10] For the 1965–66 season the league was able to revert to a two-division structure when it rebranded its existing single division the Premier Division and added a new Division One.[9] By 1976, a steady flow of teams joining from smaller regional leagues led to Division One being split into Divisions One (A) and One (B), revised a year later to Divisions One and Two.[11]
Modern era
WMRL action from 2006, as the now defunct Wyrley Rangers take on Gornal Athletic.
The Alliance Premier League was formed in 1979, pushing the Regional League further down the English football league system. Successful Regional League clubs such as Bilston Town, Hednesford Town and Halesowen Town began applying to, and being accepted into, the Southern League, reducing the Regional League to the status of a feeder league,[12] although their departures continued to be offset by a flow of new members from lower-level leagues. Reflecting the demographics of the West Midlands area, a number of British Asian teams joined the league,[13] including Sikh Hunters, England's first ever all-Sikh team.[14] At the same time the catchment areas of the Regional League and the then-Midland Football Combination were increasingly converging, and by the early 1990s the standard of play and geographical coverage of the two competitions were considered to be almost identical. A new competition was formed in 1994 to cater for the best clubs previously split across the two leagues, and thus the Regional League lost ten of its member clubs to the Midland Football Alliance, further reducing its own status.[15]
The reduction in numbers forced the league to revert to a two-division structure, but within two seasons numbers had grown again to the extent that Division One was split into Divisions One (North) and One (South) for the 1996–97 season,[16] a format retained until 2004 when the two Division Ones were re-organised into Division One and Division Two.[17] Although the league now operates at a level much below that which it occupied in its heyday it continues to survive and holds the distinction, jointly with the Northern League, of being the second oldest football league in existence, behind only the Football League itself.[1]
Structure
The league currently has no title sponsor. Previously it has been sponsored by Sport Italia,[18] the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star newspaper,[19] and Black Country brewery Banks's.[20] Some of the teams in the lower two divisions are reserve teams of clubs playing at a higher level.[21][22][23] Each division is contested on a double round-robin basis, with each team playing each of the other teams in the division once at home and once away. Three points are awarded for a win (increased from two with effect from the 1988–89 season),[12] one for a draw and zero for a defeat. Goal difference is used to separate teams on the same points, having replaced goal average at the start of the 1978–79 season.[24]
From the 1994–95 to 2013–14 seasons the Regional League, along with the Midland Football Combination, served as one of the two official feeders to the Midland Football Alliance. The highest-placed team which met the Alliance's entry requirements was promoted to the Alliance, and one or more teams were relegated into the Regional League from the Alliance depending on the number of clubs remaining in each league.[15] (These requirements were inherited by the second Midland League; see last paragraph.) Prior to the 2006–07 season, the league was defined as a step 7 league within the National League System,[25] even though it fed into the Alliance, which was graded as step 5.[26] In 2006 the Regional League was re-graded by the Football Association as a step 6 league.[27] Teams in the top two divisions are eligible to take part in the FA Cup and FA Vase as long as their grounds meet the required standards.[28]
Throughout the Midland Alliance's 20-year existence, the Regional League has accepted and, after the Midland League was re-formed, continues to accept applications for membership from successful teams in smaller local leagues within its catchment area. Leagues whose clubs have joined the Regional League include the Shropshire County League, the Herefordshire League, the Wolverhampton Combination, and the Kidderminster & District League. Several ambitious local Sunday league teams have also switched to Saturday play and entered the league.[29]Bewdley Town, Bromyard Town and Ellesmere Rangers have all joined from county leagues since 1994 and subsequently gone on to gain promotion to the Premier Division.[29] Regional League teams could also theoretically be relegated to the local leagues but in practice this almost never happens. The only teams in recent history to drop down to a county league have been Leominster Town, Kington Town and Hinton, who dropped down to the Herefordshire League in 2004, 2006 and 2007 respectively, although all three clubs resigned voluntarily in favour of playing in a more local league as opposed to being relegated due to finishing at the bottom of the table.[2][30]
In 2014, the Midland Alliance and Midland Combination merged to become the second Midland League,[31] Since then, the Regional League is a feeder to the new league's top division, which inherited the Alliance's position at step 5.
Attendance
At one time the league attracted large crowds for matches, with 3,000 spectators watching a match between Coventry City and Shrewsbury Town in 1899.[32] By the early 1960s, despite the league's decline in status, Kidderminster Harriers were still able to attract crowds of around 1,000 fans for home matches.[33] In the modern era, however, crowds are much smaller. In the 1993–94 season Rocester averaged around 100 fans for home games, and several of the team's away matches drew crowds of less than 40.[34] Attendance figures are not currently published for league fixtures, however in the FA Vase in the 2005–06 season home attendances for Regional League teams averaged around 50, with only Wellington's match against Alvechurch of the then-existent Midland Alliance drawing over 100 spectators.[35]
Current member clubs 2018–19
The member clubs of the league for the 2018–19 season are as follows:
Premier Division
Queen Street, home of Bilston Town and Willenhall Town
Phoenix Park, home of Shifnal Town
The Cottage Ground, home of Wednesfield and Wolverhampton Sporting Community
| Club | Town | Home stadium | Joined[N 1] | 2017-18 position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC Bridgnorth | Bridgnorth | Crown Meadow | 2014 | 18th |
| Bewdley Town | Bewdley | Ribbesford Meadows | 2005 | 7th |
| Bilston Town | Bilston | Queen Street | 2013 | 11th |
| Black Country Rangers | Dudley | The Garden Walk | 2011 | 4th |
| Cradley Town | Cradley | Beeches View | 2010 | 8th |
| Dudley Sports | Brierley Hill[N 2] | Hillcrest Avenue | 2006 | 16th |
| Dudley Town | Oldbury[N 3] | Dell Sports Centre | 1998 | 17th |
| Haughmond | Shrewsbury | Sundorne Sports Village | 2018 | 20th in Midland League Premier Division (Relegated) |
| Hereford Lads Club | Hereford | County Ground | 2017 | 12th |
| Malvern Town | Malvern | Langland Stadium | 2011 | 3rd |
| Pegasus Juniors | Hereford | Old School Lane Ground | 2011 | 19th |
| Pershore Town | Pershore | Pershore Community Stadium | 2018 | 18th in Midland League Division One (Transferred) |
| Shawbury United | Shawbury | Ludlow Stadium | 2018 | 21st in Midland League Premier Division (Relegated) |
| Shifnal Town | Shifnal | Trio Construction Stadium | 2016 | 15th |
| Smethwick Rangers | Oldbury | Hillcrest Avenue | 2013 | 14th |
| Tividale | Tividale | The Beeches | 2017 | 2nd |
| Wednesfield | Wednesfield | Cottage Ground | 2017 | 5th |
| Wellington | Wellington | Wellington Playing Fields | 2000 | 10th |
| Wem Town | Wem | Butler Sports Ground | 2018 | 1st in Division One (Promoted) |
| Wolverhampton Casuals | Wolverhampton | Brinsford Lane | 1995 | 9th |
^ Indicates the most recent occasion on which the club entered the Premier Division
^ Currently playing in Brierley Hill but originally formed in Dudley
^ Currently playing in Oldbury but originally formed in Dudley
|
| Allscott |
Bromyard Town |
Bustleholme |
| Darlaston Town (1874) |
| Droitwich Spa |
Gornal Athletic |
| Newport Town |
Old Wulfrunians |
| Sikh Hunters |
| Team Dudley |
| Telford Juniors |
Tipton Town |
Willenhall Town |
Wellington Amateurs |
| Worcester Raiders |
| Wrens Nest |
| Wyrley |
Division Two
AFC Bridgnorth Development |
| Church Stretton |
| FC Darlaston |
| Gornal Colts |
| Hawkins Sports |
| Ludlow FC |
| Oldbury United |
| Rock Rovers |
Tipton Town Reserves |
Warstones Wanderers |
Wolverhampton United |
| Wonder Vaults |
League champions
Birmingham & District League
Initially the league consisted of a single division
| Season | Champions[36] |
|---|---|
| 1889–90 | no championship awarded |
| 1890–91 | no championship awarded |
| 1891–92 | no championship awarded |
| 1892–93 | Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserves |
| 1893–94 | Old Hill Wanderers |
| 1894–95 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1895–96 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1896–97 | Hereford Thistle |
| 1897–98 | Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserves |
| 1898–99 | Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserves |
| 1899–1900 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1900–01 | Wolverhampton Wanderers Reserves |
| 1901–02 | West Bromwich Albion Reserves |
| 1902–03 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1903–04 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1904–05 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1905–06 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1906–07 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1907–08 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1908–09 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1909–10 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1910–11 | Stoke |
| 1911–12 | Aston Villa Reserves |
| 1912–13 | West Bromwich Albion Reserves |
| 1913–14 | Worcester City |
| 1914–15 | Birmingham Reserves |
Between 1915 and 1919 the competition was suspended due to the First World War.
| Season | Champions[36] |
|---|---|
| 1919–20 | West Bromwich Albion Reserves |
| 1920–21 | Wellington Town |
| 1921–22 | Willenhall |
| 1922–23 | Shrewsbury Town |
| 1923–24 | Stourbridge |
| 1924–25 | Worcester City |
| 1925–26 | Cradley Heath |
| 1926–27 | Stafford Rangers |
| 1927–28 | Burton Town |
| 1928–29 | Worcester City |
| 1929–30 | Worcester City |
| 1930–31 | Cradley Heath |
| 1931–32 | Cradley Heath |
| 1932–33 | Wrexham Reserves |
| 1933–34 | Wrexham Reserves |
| 1934–35 | Wellington Town |
| 1935–36 | Wellington Town |
| 1936–37 | Bristol Rovers |
| 1937–38 | Kidderminster Harriers |
Due to the number of teams having dropped dramatically, the 1938–39 season consisted of two separate "half-season" leagues. The Keys Cup was contested until Christmas and the League Cup for the remainder of the season.[37]
| Season | Keys Cup | League Cup |
|---|---|---|
| 1938–39 | Kidderminster Harriers | Kidderminster Harriers |
The 1939–40 season was abandoned due to the outbreak of the Second World War and the league did not resume operations until 1946.
| Season | Champions[38] |
|---|---|
| 1946–47 | Halesowen Town |
| 1947–48 | Kettering Town |
| 1948–49 | Worcester City Reserves |
| 1949–50 | Hereford United Reserves |
| 1950–51 | Brierley Hill Alliance |
| 1951–52 | Brierley Hill Alliance |
| 1952–53 | Oswestry Town |
| 1953–54 | Wolverhampton Wanderers 'A' |
For the 1954–55 season the league was split into two regional sections.[7]
| Season | Northern Section | Southern Section |
|---|---|---|
| 1954–55 | Nuneaton Borough | Redditch United |
For the 1955–56 season the league was re-organised into Division One and Division Two.
| Season | Division One[39] | Division Two[39] |
|---|---|---|
| 1955–56 | Nuneaton Borough | Tamworth |
| 1956–57 | Walsall Reserves | Bilston |
| 1957–58 | Wolverhampton Wanderers 'A' | Oswestry Town |
| 1958–59 | Wolverhampton Wanderers 'A' | Birmingham City 'A' |
| 1959–60 | Bromsgrove Rovers | Aston Villa 'A' |
The league reverted to a single-division format for the 1960–61 season.
| Season | Champions[40] |
|---|---|
| 1960–61 | Bilston |
| 1961–62 | Lockheed Leamington |
West Midlands (Regional) League
| Season | Champions[40] |
|---|---|
| 1962–63 | Lockheed Leamington |
| 1963–64 | Tamworth |
| 1964–65 | Kidderminster Harriers |
For the 1965–66 season the league reverted to a two-division format, now comprising the Premier Division and Division One.
| Season | Premier Division[41] | Division One[41] |
|---|---|---|
| 1965–66 | Tamworth | Wrockwardine Wood |
| 1966–67 | Boston United | Tamworth Reserves |
| 1967–68 | Boston United | Warley |
| 1968–69 | Kidderminster Harriers | Wrockwardine Wood |
| 1969–70 | Kidderminster Harriers | Warley County Borough |
| 1970–71 | Kidderminster Harriers | Brereton Social |
| 1971–72 | Tamworth | Warley County Borough |
| 1972–73 | Bilston | Tividale |
| 1973–74 | Alvechurch | Armitage |
| 1974–75 | Alvechurch | Staffordshire Police |
| 1975–76 | Alvechurch | Willenhall Town |
For the 1976–77 season Division One was split into 'A' and 'B' sections.[42]
| Season | Premier Division | Division One (A) | Division One (B) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976–77 | Alvechurch | Wednesfield Social | Wolverhampton United |
For the 1977–78 season Division One (A) and Division One (B) were re-organised into Division One and Division Two.
| Season | Premier Division[43] | Division One[43] | Division Two[43] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977–78 | Hednesford Town | Chasetown | Worcester City Reserves |
| 1978–79 | Willenhall Town | Shifnal Town | Ludlow Town |
| 1979–80 | Sutton Coldfield Town | Rushall Olympic | Brewood |
| 1980–81 | Shifnal Town | Oldswinford | Bromsgrove Rovers Reserves |
| 1981–82 | Shifnal Town | Atherstone United | GKN Sankey |
| 1982–83 | Halesowen Town | Brewood | Great Wyrley |
| 1983–84 | Halesowen Town | Tipton Town | Halesowen Town Reserves |
| 1984–85 | Halesowen Town | Harrisons | Halesowen Harriers |
| 1985–86 | Halesowen Town | Halesowen Harriers | Springvale-Tranco |
| 1986–87 | Atherstone United | Westfields | Donnington Wood |
| 1987–88 | Tamworth | Rocester | Hinton |
| 1988–89 | Blakenall | Newport Town | Broseley Athletic |
| 1989–90 | Hinckley Town | Darlaston | Hill Top Rangers |
| 1990–91 | Gresley Rovers | Cradley Town | Clancey Dudley |
| 1991–92 | Gresley Rovers | Ilkeston Town | K Chell |
| 1992–93 | Oldbury United | Knypersley Victoria | Rushall Olympic Reserves |
For the 1993–94 season Division Two was discontinued.
| Season | Premier Division[44] | Division One[44] |
|---|---|---|
| 1993–94 | Ilkeston Town | Stafford Town |
| 1994–95 | Pelsall Villa | Wolverhampton Casuals |
| 1995–96 | Wednesfield | Goodyear |
For the 1996–97 season Division One was split into two regional sections.
| Season | Premier Division[17] | Division One (North)[17] | Division One (South)[17] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996–97 | Wednesfield | Great Wyrley | Kington Town |
| 1997–98 | Lye Town | Bandon | Smethwick Rangers |
| 1998–99 | Kington Town | Heath Hayes | Wellington |
| 1999–2000 | Stafford Town | Shawbury United | Bromyard Town |
| 2000–01 | Ludlow Town | Wolverhampton United | Ledbury Town |
| 2001–02 | Causeway United | Ounsdale | Sedgley White Lions |
| 2002–03 | Westfields | Newport Town | Bewdley Town |
| 2003–04 | Malvern Town | Goodrich | Gornal Athletic |
For the 2004–05 season Division One (North) and Division One (South) were re-organised back into Division One and Division Two.
| Season | Premier Division | Division One | Division Two |
|---|---|---|---|
2004–05[17] | Tipton Town | Great Wyrley | Parkfields Leisure |
| 2005–06 | Market Drayton Town | Ellesmere Rangers | AFC Wulfrunians |
| 2006–07 | Shifnal Town | Darlaston Town | Heath Town Rangers |
| 2007–08 | Bridgnorth Town | Birchills United | Wellington Amateurs |
| 2008–09 | AFC Wulfrunians | Wellington Amateurs | Hanwood United |
| 2009–10 | Ellesmere Rangers | Wellington Amateurs | Black Country Rangers |
| 2010–11 | Tividale | Black Country Rangers | Malvern Rangers |
| 2011–12 | Gornal Athletic | Wellington Amateurs | Haughmond |
| 2012–13 | AFC Wulfrunians | AFC Smethwick | Gornal Athletic Reserves |
| 2013–14 | Lye Town | AFC Bridgnorth | AFC Ludlow |
| 2014–15 | Sporting Khalsa | Bromyard Town | Kington Town |
| 2015–16 | Shawbury United | Shifnal Town | Newport Town |
| 2016–17 | Haughmond | Hereford Lads Club | Telford Juniors |
| 2017–18 | Wolverhampton Sporting Community | Wem Town | Sikh Hunters |
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