Earlswood Town Football Club is a

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club based in

Earlswood Earlswood is a suburb of Redhill in Surrey, England, which lies on the A23 between Redhill (in the direction of London) and Horley (next to Gatwick Airport). Earlswood Common is a local nature reserve that separates the suburb from the sout ...

, near

Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blythe i ...

, England. They are currently members of the and play at The Pavilions on Malt House Lane.

1st Team Staff

History

The club was originally known as Churchgreen United.Who are we?
Earlswood Town F.C. They were renamed Earlswood Town in 1968, at which point they were playing in the West Midlands Metropolitan League. The club joined the Mercian League in 1971 and won the league's Queens Hospital Cup in 1972–73.Honours list
Earlswood Town F.C. 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. They then moved up to Division Three of the

Midland Combination The Midland Football Combination was an English football league covering parts of the West Midlands. It comprised five divisions, a Premier Division, Divisions One and Two and two Reserves Divisions. The league was one of three official feeder le ...

, which was renamed Division Two in 1983. Earlswood won the Midland Combination's Challenge Vase in 2002–03 and retained the trophy the following season. 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, the club won the Division One title the following season, earning promotion to the Premier Division. When the Midland Combination merged with the Midland Alliance to form the Midland League in 2014, Earlswood were placed in Division Two. Despite finishing bottom of Division Two in 2015–16 and 2018-19, the club avoided relegation.

Ground

The club moved to Lady Lane in Earlswood in 1966, before relocating to the Pavilions on Malt House Lane in 1970. 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. In 2012 the club relocated to Studley's Beehive ground, and played the 2013/14 season at Bromsgrove Sporting's Victoria Ground before later returning to the Pavilions ground.

Honours

*Midland Combination **Division One champions 2010–11 **Challenge Vase winners 2002–03, 2003–04 *Mercian League **Premier Division champions 1981–82 **Queens Hospital Cup winners 1972–73 **Aston Villa Shield winners 1978–79

Records

*Best

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...

performance: Extra-preliminary round, 2012–13, 2013–14 *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: First round, 2013–14

References

External links

Official website
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