Handsworth Football Club is a football club based in Handsworth,

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at Olivers Mount in

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History

The club was established in 2014 as the result of a merger between Handsworth and

Worksop Parramore Parramore Sports F.C. was an English football club from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, but based later in its existence in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. History Parramore Sports was established in 1936 as the works team of ironfounders F Parramore & ...

; work on the merger had begun in 2013 and was finalised the following year. The new club took Worksop Parramore's place in the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East League. In their first season the club won the League Cup, beating Cleethorpes Town 4–3 in the final, coming back from 3–1 down with six minutes remaining. In June 2019, the club was renamed Handsworth Football Club.

Season-by-season record

Grounds

Olivers Mount was the home ground of the original Handsworth, but it failed a ground grading test in 2012 which resulted in the club being relegated from the Northern Counties East League. Parramore Sports played at Sandy Lane in

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, which they bought after

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were evicted in 2008. After the merger in 2014, the club's first team played at Sandy Lane (which Worksop Town had returned to as tenants), while reserve and youth team games were played at Olivers Mount. The first team moved to Olivers Mount in 2020.

Honours

*Northern Counties East League **League Cup winners 2014–15

Records

*Best

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performance: Third qualifying round, 2016–17, 2021–22 *Best FA Vase performance: Third round, 2015–16 *Record attendance: 1,561 vs

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, friendly match, 29 July 2016Report: Handsworth Parramore 1 Sheffield United 5
The Star, 29 July 2016

References

External links

Official website
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