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Cadbury Athletic Football Club is an amateur
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club based in
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, England. Affiliated with the
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confectionery company and playing in the company colours of purple and white, they are currently members of the and play at the Cadbury Recreation Ground in
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.


History

The club was established in 1994,Mike Williams & Tony Williams (2016) ''Non-League Club Directory 2017'', Tony Williams Publications, p437 and were admitted 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 l ...
. Despite finishing ninth in their first season, they were promoted to Division Two. In 2000–01 a fourth-place finish was enough to secure promotion to Division One, with the club also winning the league's Challenge Vase. They were Division One runners-up in 2004–05, earning promotion to the Premier Division. Despite finishing twelfth in the Premier Division in 2011–12, Cadbury Athletic resigned from the division and dropped into Division One. They were Division One champions in 2013–14, the last season before the league merged with the
Midland Alliance The Midland Football Alliance was an English association football league for semi-professional teams. It covered Leicestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire and also southern parts of Derbyshire and ...
to form the
Midland League The Midland Football League, officially known as the Capelli Sport Midland Football League since January 2025 for sponsorship reasons, is an English football league that was founded in 2014 by the merger of the former Midland Alliance and Midl ...
, with Cadbury Athletic placed in Division One. The club resigned from Division One at the end of the 2020–21 season and dropped into Division Two. The following season saw them win the Division Two title and the Birmingham Saturday Vase with a 4–0 victory over Tipton Town in the final.


Ground

The club originally played at the Cadbury Recreation Ground at the Cadbury factory in
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. Due to the lack of floodlights, the first team moved to Pilkington XXX's Triplex Sports Ground in
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,Pilkington XXX
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and then
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's Lye Meadow ground, before returning to the Triplex Ground. The Triplex Ground was originally developed by Richmond Swifts. Levelling work between 1956 and 1958 led to banking being created on three sides of the pitch, with the fourth side left open for use as a cricket oval. A stand was built on the railway side of the pitch the mid-1990s, but Richmond left the ground after being unable to obtain planning permission to install floodlights. The ground was later taken over by Pilkington XXX, who were able to install floodlights. After dropping into Division Two of the Midland League in 2021, the club returned to the Cadbury Recreation Ground.


Players

Several former youth players at Cadbury Athletic have gone on to play professional football, including Rico Henry, Ryan Burge,
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,
Corey O'Keeffe Corey James John O'Keeffe (born 5 June 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a full back or midfielder for club Barnsley. O'Keeffe began his career with Birmingham City, made his senior debut in 2016, and spent time on loan at Soli ...
and
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.Birmingham City: Who is Corey O’Keeffe? Lowdown on Blues teenager who could feature against Newcastle United
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Honours

*Midland League **Division Two champions 2021–22 *Midland Combination **Division One champions 2013–14 **Challenge Vase winners 2000–01 *Birmingham Saturday Vase **Winners 2021–22


Records

*Best
FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during ...
performance: Preliminary round, 2015–16 *Best
FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, also known as the Isuzu FA Vase for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football competition run by and named after The Football Association (The FA), for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English Nation ...
performance: Fourth round, 2018–19


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