Earlswood Town F.C.

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Earlswood Town
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Full nameEarlswood Town Football Club
Nickname(s)The Earls
Founded1968
GroundThe Yakinori Pavilions, Earlswood
ChairmanAndy Walker [1]
ManagerJoel Hughes [2]
League Midland League Division Two
2022–23 Midland League Division Two, 12th of 16
Website Club website

Earlswood Town Football Club is a football club based in Earlswood, near Solihull, England. They are currently members of the Midland League Division Two and play at The Yakinori Pavilions on Malt House Lane.

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Former Republic of Ireland international Don Givens is a vice-president while ex-England goalkeeper Ben Foster is club patron. [3]

History

The club was originally known as Churchgreen United. [4] They were renamed Earlswood Town in 1968, at which point they were playing in the West Midlands Metropolitan League. [4] The club joined the Mercian League in 1971 and won the league's Queens Hospital Cup in 1972–73. [4] [5] After winning the Aston Villa Shield in 1978–79, the club were Premier Division runners-up the following season and went on to win the Premier Division title in 1981–82. [5] They then moved up to Division Three of the Midland Combination, which was renamed Division Two in 1983. [6]

Earlswood won the Midland Combination's Challenge Vase in 2002–03 and retained the trophy the following season. [5] A fourth-place finish in 2007–08 saw them promoted to Division One. The club were runners-up in Division One in 2009–10, and after moving to Pilkington XXX's Triplex Ground in order to meet the ground grading criteria for the Premier Division, [4] the club won the Division One title the following season, earning promotion to the Premier Division. [6] When the Midland Combination merged with the Midland Alliance to form the Midland League in 2014, Earlswood were placed in Division Two. [6] Despite finishing bottom of Division Two in 2015–16 and 2018-19, the club avoided relegation.

Ahead of the 2023/24 campaign, The Earls launched a fully-fledged junior section for the first time in the club's history with U7 to U9 sides competing in the Central Warwickshire Youth Football League. [7]

Ground

The Pavilions on Malt House Lane The Pavillions.jpg
The Pavilions on Malt House Lane

The club moved to Lady Lane in Earlswood in 1966, before relocating to the Pavilions on Malt House Lane in 1970. [4] In 2010 the club moved to Pilkington XXX's Triplex Ground in Kings Norton in order to be meet the ground grading criteria to be promoted to the Midland Combination Premier Division. [4] In 2012 the club relocated to Studley's Beehive ground, [4] and played the 2013/14 season at Bromsgrove Sporting's Victoria Ground [8] before later returning to the Pavilions ground.

On 6 July 2023, the club announced a ground naming rights agreement with Yakinori, a Japanese restaurant chain. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "NEW CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCED". earlswoodtownfc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "JOEL HUGHES APPOINTED EARLS MANAGER". earlswoodtownfc.co.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "FOSTER NAMED CLUB PATRON". earlswoodtownfc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Who are we? Earlswood Town F.C.
  5. 1 2 3 Honours list Earlswood Town F.C.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Earlswood Town at the Football Club History Database
  7. ↑ "FOOTBALL - Earlswood Town look to future with club set to launch junior set up for first time". Solihull Observer. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  8. ↑ "Earlswood Town" . Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "WHAT'S THE STORY? YAKINORI". earlswoodtownfc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2023.

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