Stourport Swifts Football Club are a

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Stourport-on-Severn Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and downstream on the River Severn from Bewdley. At the 2011 ce ...

, and one of the oldest non-league teams in the country. The Swifts currently play in the , and play at Walshes Meadow in the town.

History

Stourport Swifts was formed in 1882 and began playing competitive football shortly after. In 1931, they joined the Warwickshire League but only played in the league for two seasons before leaving the league, but were back five years later until the outbreak of World War II. When the league resumed Stourport rejoined the league. The club played in the Worcestershire League throughout the 1970s before joining 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 ...

Division Two in 1979–80. A fourth-placed finish in 1985–86 earned the club promotion to division one and two seasons later the club was promoted to the premier division after finishing in second place. The club finished in second place in the premier division in 1996–97 and then on 1997–98 and the second runner-up finish was enough to earn the club promotion to the

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. Their third season in that league saw them win their first ever league championship and they were promoted into the Southern League. 2000–01 also saw the club reach the fifth round of the

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. The club was placed in the West Division, finishing in eighth place in their debut season and got to the third round proper of the

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. However, the club failed to finish in the top half in subsequent seasons and were relegated back to the Midland Alliance in 2012.Club website history page
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Honours

*West Midlands League Division One Runners Up: 1987–88 *West Midlands League Premier Division Runners Up: 1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98 *West Midlands League Premier Division Cup Winners: 1992–93 *Worcester Senior Urn Winners: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1997–98 *Worcester Infirmary Cup Winners: 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98 *Midland Football Alliance Winners: 2000–01

Club records

*Best league performance: 8th in Southern League Division One West, 2001–02 *Best

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performance: 3rd qualifying round, 2000–01 and 2001–02 *Best

performance: 3rd round, 2001–02 *Best

performance: 5th round, 2000–01 *Record attendance: 1,321 v

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...

, 11 August 2015

References

External links

Official website
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