History
Brodsworth Main FC (as they were first known) were founded in 1910 by Brodsworth Main Colliery Sports and Pastimes Club which existed 1909-1923. Entering the Sheffield Association League for their inaugural campaign in 1910–11. They joined the Yorkshire League in 1921 and won the title in 1924–25, but left the league in 1935.
After the Second World War the club returned to the league for a third spell. In 1950–51 they were relegated to Division Two after finishing second from bottom of Division One. They withdrew from the league at the end of the 1956–57 season, but returned in 1961. Two years later they were renamed Brodsworth Miners Welfare.
In their first season under the new name the club finished fourth in Division Two and were promoted to Division One, but were relegated back again after just a single season. After finishing bottom of Division Two in 1972 the club was relegated to Division Three, where they remained until withdrawing in 1976.
Brodsworth Miners Welfare played in the Doncaster Senior League throughout the 1980s and won the league title in 1985. In 1988 they joined the Northern Counties East League (NCEL), entering Division Two. They were promoted to Division One when the league restructured in 1991 (despite finishing second bottom of Division Two) and floundered at the foot of the NCEL for several years, until winning promotion to the Premier Division in 1999.
In 2006 they were renamed Brodsworth Welfare AFC, and despite finishing bottom again in 2006–07 they again avoided being demoted. They were finally relegated at the end of the 2009–10 season after again finishing bottom, and they resigned from the NCEL in the summer of 2011 after finishing bottom of Division One.
In 2010, the club fielded its first women’s team in the Sheffield and Hallamshire county women’s league, unfortunately the team folded a few season later.
Since 2011, the club has had four spells back in the Doncaster Senior League (2011–12, 2016–17, 2018–19 and 2022/23 to present day) and two spells in the Central Midlands League (2012–13 to 2015–16 and 2017–18). The club was dissolved at the end of the 2019-20 season. The club has once again been resurrected for the 2022/23 season, entering teams to play in the Doncaster Rovers Saturday and Sunday league. The 2023/24 season seen a merger between a local junior side and the club, creating a player pathway from junior football to adult football.
The 2024/25 Season saw the addition of a ladies team to the club for the second time in its history. Its hoped this team, with the help of the successfully junior team’s coming through can help life the team to the clubs ambition of Level 5 football.
The 2025/26 season saw the club play in the Doncaster senior League after gaining promotion from Division 1.
However in a turn of events the club merged with Hatfield Town FC to form a new club, Brodsworth Main FC, returning to the original name from 1910. The move is fitting as Hatfield’s origins are that of Sutton Rovers, a team that played at the Welfare Ground for a number of years so they come with lots of familiar faces and good memories. This means the club once again has a team playing in the central Midlands Premier Division, a move which sees the club one step closer to meeting its ambition of returning to the NCEL Premier Division.
Players that have played in the Football League either before or after playing for Brodsworth Welfare –
Notable managers
- Alan Radford
- Joe Yorke
- Colin Bishop – Managed the club in a Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup final at Hillsborough against Stocksbridge
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