Bewdley Town Football Club is a

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club based in

Bewdley Bewdley ( pronunciation) is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District in Worcestershire, England on the banks of the River Severn. It is in the Severn Valley west of Kidderminster and southwest of Birmingham. It lies on the River Sev ...

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. They are currently members of the and play at Ribbesford Meadows.

History

The club was established in 1978 by a merger of Bewdley Old Boys and Woodcolliers.A History of Bewdley Town Football Club
Bewdley Town F.C. They joined the Kidderminster & District League, where they played until joining Division One South of the

West Midlands (Regional) League The West Midlands (Regional) League is an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Worcestershire, southern Staffordshire and northern Herefordshire. It has tw ...

in 1999. The club were Division One South runners-up in 2001–02 and champions the following season, but were not able to take promotion. League reorganisation saw Bewdley played in Division One for the 2004–05 season and they went on to win the division, taking promotion to the Premier Division after agreeing a groundshare with Stourport Swifts. In 2010–11 the club won the

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, beating Studley 2–1 in the final. They retained the Urn the following season, beating

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3–2 in the final. In 2021 the club were promoted to the Premier Division of the

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based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and

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seasons.

Ground

The club initially played at Gardeners Meadow, which had been the home ground of both Bewdley Old Boys and Woodcolliers. However, after it was sold for housing, the club temporarily moved to

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before purchasing land to build the Ribbesford Meadow Ground. They were forced to groundshare with Stourport Swifts for the 2005–06 season in order to take promotion to the Premier Division, but returned to Ribbesford Meadow the following season after building a 140-seat stand and erecting floodlights.Bewdley Town
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Honours

*West Midlands (Regional) League **Division One South champions 2002–03 *Worcestershire Senior Urn **Winners 2010–11, 2011–12 *Worcestershire Junior Cup **Winners 2003–04, 2004–05Handbook
Worcestershire FA

Records

*Best

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performance: First qualifying round, 2011–12,

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*Best

FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English footbal ...

performance: Second round, 2007–08, 2009–10,

References

External links

Official website
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