Rainworth Miners Welfare F.C.

Rainworth Miners Welfare
Full name Rainworth Miners Welfare Football Club
Nickname(s) The Wrens
Founded 1922
Ground Welfare Ground Kirklington Road
Rainworth, Mansfield
Ground Capacity 2,201 (221 seats)
Manager Ian Robinson & John Knapper
League Northern Counties East Football League
2014–15 Northern Premier League
Division One South, 21st (Resigned)

Rainworth Miners Welfare F.C. is a football club formed in 1922 and based in Rainworth, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.

History

The club (also sometimes styled as Rufford Colliery F.C.) spent the greater part of their existence in the Notts Alliance, winning that league 10 times, including a record six in succession between 1977 and 1983. They also recorded league cup and county cup success in that spell, and had some lengthy runs in the FA Vase, including reaching the final in 1981–82, when they lost the final 3–0 to Forest Green Rovers at Wembley Stadium.

After a period of less success, the club won two more Alliance titles in the mid-1990s, and then began to build for a rise up the football pyramid. Floodlights had been erected at their Kirklington Road ground in 1991, with covered accommodation following, which has since been extended, and seating installed. This enabled the club to be accepted for the Central Midlands League in 2003. They finished third in the lower ("Premier") division in their first season, earning promotion to the Supreme Division where they played until they were promoted to the Northern Counties East League Division One in 2007.

On 18 April 2009, they earned promotion to the Premier Division as runners-up, after a 3–0 win at Worsbrough Bridge.

In May 2010, Bridlington Town formally notified the FA that they would not accept promotion to the Northern Premier League. Consequently, Rainworth MW were promoted to the NPL Division One South ready for the 2010–11 season. On 13 April 2015 it was announced that the club had resigned from the NPL.

Club honours

Players

As of 17 April 2015.[1]

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

No. Position Player
England GK David Reay
England DF Tommy Hannigan
England DF Dean Freeman
England DF Dan White
England DF Elliott Hodgett-Young
England MF Gino Kelleher
England MF Chris Bettney
England MF Glodi Bange
England MF Nathan Whitehead
England MF Ian Robinson
England MF Danny Williams
The Gambia MF Kuwesi Ofushine
France MF Abu Sylla
England FW Darren Mansaram
England FW Leon Osborne
England FW Romaine Graham

References

  1. "1st Team". Rainworth Miners Welfare F.C. Retrieved 29 October 2011.

External links

Coordinates: 53°07′12.04″N 1°06′54.57″W / 53.1200111°N 1.1151583°W / 53.1200111; -1.1151583

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