Swallownest Miners Welfare F.C. was an English

football club In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as ...

located in

Swallownest Swallownest is a village located in the civil parish of Aston cum Aughton within the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The village lies south of Rotherham and from Sheffield. Swallownest borders the Sheffield subu ...

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the north, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north-east, Lincolnshire ...

History

The club competed in the

Yorkshire Football League The Yorkshire Football League was the name of two football competitions. The first lasted three seasons in the late 19th century and the second lasted 62 years until merging with the Midland League in 1982 to become the Northern Counties East Lea ...

in the 1960s, competing in Division 1 on three occasions. They also played in the

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and the

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League and cup history

Honours

League

* Yorkshire League Division 2 **Promoted: 1961–62, 1968–69

Cup

None

Records

*Best League performance: 8th, Yorkshire League Division 1, 1962–63 *Best

performance: 4th Qualifying Round, 1961–62 *Best

performance: 1st Round, 1974–75

References

Defunct football clubs in South Yorkshire Defunct football clubs in England Yorkshire Football League Sheffield Association League Mining association football teams in England {{England-footyclub-defunct-stub