Wolverhampton Sporting C.F.C.

Wolverhampton Sporting

Full name	Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club
Nickname(s)	Wolves Sporting
Founded	2001
Ground	Pride Park
Chairman	John Quarry
Manager	Wayne Spicer
League	Midland League Premier Division
2017–18	West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division, 1st of 20 (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club is a football club originally formed in Wolverhampton, but currently based in Great Wyrley, the club competes in the Midland League Premier Division. Originally formed as Chubb Sports F.C. they lost their home club and pitches due to the Chubb lock and safe factory closing down and being sold for housing. The club then changed its name to Heath Town Rangers, the name and badge was chosen by the players in 2001.

The club changed its name from Heath Town Rangers to its present name midway through the 2010–11 season.

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  1 History
  


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  2 Ground
  


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  3 Current squad
  


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  4 Coaching staff
  


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  5 Honours
  


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  6 Records
  


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  7 References
  


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  8 External links
  

History

The club entered the West Midlands (Regional) League in 2005–06 competing in the youth league. The next season they entered their first team into Division Two and in the 2006–07 season the club won the Division Two title and also claimed the Youth League title. In 2007–08 season they entered a reserve team into Division Two and the Heath Town Rangers first team gained promotion from Division One into the Premier Division by finishing in third place. They also won the Staffordshire Challenge Cup in the same season. In their first season in the Premier Division they finished eighth and reached the final of the League Cup which was postponed and never played. Part way through the 2010–11 season the club changed its name from Heath Town Rangers to Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club. Sporting won the 2017–18 West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division double, finishing the league with a total of 104 points and beating Black Country Rangers 3-0 in the Premier Cup Final. They gained promotion into the Midland Football League following their league victory.

For the 2018-19 season Sporting hired Steve Hinks as manager, however, he left the club bottom of the Midland Football League to take over his current role at Nuneaton Borough, for Hinks's replacement, the club hired former Black Country Rangers boss, Wayne Spicer, in December 2018. Spicer's first game in charge was a 1-1 draw away against Worcester City.

Ground

Following a period of ground-sharing at the Cottage Ground, the current home of Wednesfield F.C., Sporting moved to Pride Park, Great Wyrley, in 2014. The ground itself has two stands which are both at the clubhouse end of the pitch at either corner flag, the stand on the left has rows of benches which have been painted in the colours of the club, while the stand on the right has proper seats in it, standing is available round all other sides of the pitch. The ground also has floodlights and a viewing balcony. Catering is covered on the second floor of the clubhouse with a full bar and catering facility.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Connor Hopkins (on loan from Sutton Coldfield Town) GK Ryan Pratt GK Dale Faultless DF Jonathon Ashfall DF Kyle Burke DF Stefan Cameron DF Aboudalahi Ceesay DF Ben Douglas DF Sufyan Zia MF Abdulhamid Chouchane MF Dominic Dell MF Mitchell Evans

No. Position Player MF Kartell O'Neil-Martin MF Dan Scragg MF Shaun Smith MF Bilal Yafai MF Umar Zaman FW Roland Agbor FW Taylor Allen FW Kieron Clarke FW Daniel Dubidat FW Jake Healy FW Taimoor Hussain FW Adam Skeldon

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Head Coach	Wayne Spicer
Assistant Head Coach	Graham Ward
First Team Coach	Thomas Albutt
Goalkeeping Coach	John Davies
Goalkeeping Coach	Huzefa Vorajee
Fitness Coach	Vacant
Physiotherapist	Pav Gill
Performance Analyst	Jan Reis
Technical Director	Obayed Hussain

Honours

League

West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Division

• Champions (1): 2017-18

West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two

• Champions (1): 2006-07

West Midlands (Regional) League Youth League

• Champions (1): 2006-07

Cup

Staffordshire Challenge Cup

• Champions (1): 2008

West Midlands (Regional) League Premier Cup

• Champions (1): 2018


• Runners-up (1): 2016


• Finalists (1): 2009 - Game Abandoned (Never Replayed)

Records

FA Vase^[1] : Fifth Round 2017–18

References

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   ^ Heath Town Rangers at the Football Club History Database
   

External links

• Pitchero club website

v t e 2018–19 West Midlands (Regional) League
Premier Division	AFC Bridgnorth Bewdley Town Bilston Town Black Country Rangers Cradley Town Dudley Sports Dudley Town Haughmond Hereford Lads Club Malvern Town Pegasus Juniors Pershore Town Shawbury United Shifnal Town Smethwick Tividale Wednesfield Wellington Wem Town Wolverhampton Casuals
Division One	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 Hawking Sports Ludlow Oldbury United Rock Rovers Tipton Town Reserves Warstones Wanderers Wolverhampton United Wonder Vaults
Seasons	1889–90 1890–91 1891–92 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–00 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19

v t e Men's football in the West Midlands
Clubs (List of)	Premier League & Football League (tiers 1–4) 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Aston Villa Birmingham City West Bromwich Albion 3 Coventry City Walsall 4 None Non-League (tiers 5–12) 5 Solihull Moors 6 None 7 Halesowen Town Rushall Olympic Stourbridge Sutton Coldfield Town 9 AFC Wulfrunians Boldmere St. Michaels Coventry Sphinx Coventry United Highgate United Lye Town Romulus Sporting Khalsa Walsall Wood Wolverhampton Sporting Community 10 Bilston Town Black Country Rangers Cadbury Athletic Chelmsley Town Coventry Alvis Coventry Copsewood Cradley Town Dudley Sports Dudley Town Paget Rangers Smethwick Tividale Wednesfield Wolverhampton Casuals 11 Bloxwich Town Bustleholme Gornal Athletic Knowle Northfield Town Pelsall Villa Tipton Town 12 Castle Vale Town Continental Star Warstones Wanderers Willenhall Town Wolverhampton United Other Aston Massey Ferguson Defunct/Former Bartley Green Blackwood Blakenall Bloxwich United (2006-2012) Bloxwich United (2001-2002) Castle Vale Causeway United Coventry Sporting Cradley Heath Darlaston Town Goodrich Moor Green Old Hill Wanderers Pilkington XXX Solihull Borough Warley County Borough West Midlands Police Willenhall
Competitions	Midland Football League West Midlands (Regional) League Birmingham & District Football League
Venues	Villa Park St Andrew's Ricoh Arena Butts Park Arena Damson Park War Memorial Athletic Ground Bescot Stadium Molineux Stadium
Rivalries	Black Country derby Aston Villa F.C.–West Bromwich Albion F.C. rivalry Second City derby
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