Wolverhampton Sporting C.F.C.

Wolverhampton Sporting
Full name Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club
Nickname(s) Wolves Sporting
Founded 2001
Ground Pride Park
Hazel Lane
Great Wyrley
Staffordshire
Chairman John Quarry
Managerial team Andy Paddock
John Sturmey
Lea Cain
League West Midlands (Regional) League
Premier Division
2014–15 West Midlands (Regional) League
Premier Division, 16th

Wolverhampton Sporting C.F.C. is a football club originally formed in Wolverhampton, but currently based in Great Wyrley. The club entered the West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two in 2006 and gained two consecutive promotions, entering the Premier Division in the 2008–09 season.[1]

The club changed its name from Heath Town Rangers to its present name midway through the 2010–11 season.[2]

History

Formerly known 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 was chosen by the players who also designed the club's badge in 2001.

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.

On 1 November during the 2010–11 season the club changed its name from Heath Town Rangers to Wolverhampton Sporting Community Football Club.[3]

Honours

The club's former home ground in Wednesfield

Records

References

  1. 1 2 3 Heath Town Rangers at the Football Club History Database
  2. "WMRL Premier club has name change". Tividale F.C. 1 November 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
  3. Wolverhampton Sporting Community at the Football Club History Database

External links

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