Belper United Football Club is a

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club based in

Belper Belper () is a town and civil parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about north of Derby on the River Derwent. Along with Belper, the parish includes the village of Milford and the hamlets ...

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

, England. They are currently members of the and play at Coronation Park, the home of Eastwood.

History

A Belper United was established in the 1921. By the late 1970s the club was playing in the

East Midlands Regional League The East Midlands Regional League was a football league in the East Midlands region of England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which ...

. They were Division One champions in 1979–80, earning promotion to the Premier Division. In 1984–85 the club were the league's last Premier Division champions, with the league merging with the Central Alliance to form the Midlands Regional Alliance at the end of the season. Belper were placed in the Premier Division of the new league and became its inaugural champions in 1985–86.MRA Roll of Honours: Premier Division
Midlands Regional Alliance They won the league's Challenge Cup in 1992–93, before securing a second Premier Division title in 1994–95 and another Challenge Cup the following season. They were later relegated to Division One, which they won in the 2004–05 season to earn promotion back to the Premier Division. Despite finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 2008–09, Belper were not relegated to Division One.
Non-League Matters In 2010 they switched to the South Division of the

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. In 2014–15 they won the Central Midlands League Floodlight Cup, beating Clay Cross Town 3–2 in the final. After finishing as runners-up in the South Division in 2015–16, the club were promoted to the East Midlands Counties League. They remained members of the league until it was disbanded at the end of the 2020–21 season, at which point they were transferred to Division One of the

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. In their first season in the league they finished third, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. After defeating Radford in the semi-finals, they beat

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1–0 in the final to earn promotion to the Premier Division North.

Ground

The first team plays at Eastwood's Coronation Park. They played at Belper Town's Christchurch Meadow from the 2013–14 season,United make Christchurch Meadow debut
Belper Town F.C. but later relocated to Asterdale Bowl, the home ground of Borrowash Victoria. The club returned to Christchurch Meadow at the start of the 2018–19 season. They moved on again to Coronation Park before the 2023–24 season

Honours

*Central Midlands League **Floodlit Cup winners 2014–15 *East Midlands Regional League **Premier Division champions 1984–85 **Division One champions 1979–80 *Midlands Regional Alliance **Premier Division champions 1985–86, 1994–95 **Division One champions 2004–05 **Challenge Cup winners 1992–93, 1995–96

Records

*Best

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performance: Preliminary round, 2025–26 *Best

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performance: Third round,

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References

External links

Official website
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