football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club based in
Belper
Belper is a town and civil parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about north of Derby on the River Derwent. As well as Belper itself, the parish also includes the village of Milford and the ha ...
, Derbyshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Coronation Park, the home of
Eastwood Eastwood may refer to:
Places
;in Australia
*Eastwood, New South Wales
**Eastwood railway station
**Electoral district of Eastwood
*Eastwood, South Australia
;in Canada
* Eastwood, Ontario
*Eastwood, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighborhood
;in the Ph ...
.
History
A Belper United was established in the 1921. By the late 1970s the club was playing in the
East Midlands Regional League The East Midlands Regional League was a football league in the East Midlands region of England between 1967 and 1985.MRA Roll of Honours: Premier Division Midlands Regional Alliance They won the league's Challenge Cup in 1992–93, before securing a second Premier Division title in 1994–95 and another Challenge Cup the following season. They were later relegated to Division One, which they won in the 2004–05 season to earn promotion back to the Premier Division.
Despite finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 2008–09, Belper were not relegated to Division One. Non-League Matters In 2010 they switched to the South Division of the
Central Midlands League
The Central Midlands Football League is an English football league covering the northeast-central part of England. Formed in 1971 as the South Derbyshire League, changing name initially to the Derbyshire League before changing to its current nam ...
. In 2014–15 they won the Central Midlands League Floodlight Cup, beating Clay Cross Town 3–2 in the final. After finishing as runners-up in the South Division in 2015–16, the club were promoted to the East Midlands Counties League. They remained members of the league until it was disbanded at the end of the 2020–21 season, at which point they were transferred to Division One of the United Counties League. In their first season in the league they finished third, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. After defeating Radford in the semi-finals, they beat Hinckley 1–0 in the final to earn promotion to the Premier Division North.
Ground
The first team plays at Eastwood's Coronation Park. They played at Belper Town's Christchurch Meadow from the 2013–14 season,United make Christchurch Meadow debut Belper Town F.C. but later relocated to Asterdale Bowl, the home ground of Borrowash Victoria. The club returned to Christchurch Meadow at the start of the 2018–19 season. They moved on again to Coronation Park before the 2023–24 season
Honours
*Central Midlands League
**Floodlit Cup winners 2014–15
*East Midlands Regional League
**Premier Division champions 1984–85
**Division One champions 1979–80
*Midlands Regional Alliance
**Premier Division champions 1985–86, 1994–95
**Division One champions 2004–05
**Challenge Cup winners 1992–93, 1995–96
Records
*Best FA Cup performance: Extra preliminary round, 2018–19,
2022–23
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*Best
FA Vase
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performance: Third round,
2022–23
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