Dudley Sports Football Club is a football club based in

Dudley Dudley is a large market town and administrative centre in the county of West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically an exclave of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the ...

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. They are currently members of the and play at Hillcrest Avenue in

Brierley Hill Brierley Hill is a town and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England, 2.5 miles south of Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge. Part of the Black Country and in a heavily industrialised area, it has a pop ...

History

The club was established in 1979 after the Marsh & Baxter company folded and was initially named Dudley Employees Sports & Social Club.About Dudley Sports
Express & Star, 3 October 2007 They joined the Birmingham & District Work and Combination, where they played until joining Division Two of the Midland Combination in 1985. Despite only finishing ninth in their first season in Division Two, the club were promoted to Division One. They won the league's Presidents Cup in 1989–90. The club remained in Division One until 1997, when they were promoted to the Premier Division after a seventh-place finish. Dudley Sports finished bottom of the Midland Combination Premier Division in 1998–99 and were relegated back to Division One. They returned to the Premier Division after finishing fourth in Division One in 2002–03, a season which also saw them win the Presidents Cup again. In 2006 the club transferred to the Premier Division 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 ...

, where they have remained since. In 2007–08 they won the Premier Division League Cup,Cup winners
West Midlands (Regional) League beating

Wednesfield Wednesfield is a town and historic village in the City of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, It is east-northeast of Wolverhampton city centre and about from Birmingham and is part of the West Midlands conurbation. It was historically wit ...

2–1 in the final. At the end of the 2020–21 season Dudley Sports were transferred to Division One of the

Midland League The Midland Football League is an English football league that was founded in 2014 by the merger of the former Midland Alliance and Midland Combination. The league has four divisions that sit at levels 9–12 of the football pyramid. History T ...

when the Premier Division of the West Midlands (Regional) League lost its status as a step six division. In 2021–22 the club finished bottom of Division One of the Midland League, and were relegated to Division One of the West Midlands (Regional) League.

Honours

*West Midlands (Regional) League **Premier Division League Cup winners 2007–08 *Midland Combination **Presidents Cup winners 1989–90, 2002–03

Records

*Best

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performance: First qualifying round, 2009–10 *Best FA Vase performance: Second qualifying round, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17

References

External links

Official website
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