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Castle Vale Town Football Club is a
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club based in the
Castle Vale Castle Vale is a housing estate located between Erdington, Minworth and Castle Bromwich. Currently Castle Vale makes up the Castle Vale Ward of Birmingham City Council which is part of Erdington constituency (having previously been part of H ...
area of
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,
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. They are currently members of the and play at the Vale Stadium.


History

The club was established in 1998 as the reserve team of Castle Vale Kings Heath. They joined 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 ...
in 2003, and were runners-up in their first season, earning promotion to Division Two. In 2005 the team were renamed Castle Vale Reserves as the club changed its name, and in 2006 they became a separate club under the name Castle Vale JKS, JKS standing for Junior Kick Stars, the youth team that merged with the reserves to form a new club; a new Castle Vale reserve team was subsequently formed and joined Division Three of the Midland Combination in 2007. The new Castle Vale JKS started in Division Three of the Midland Combination, but won the division at the first attempt. They went on to win Division Two and the league's Challenge Vase the following season.Cup history
Midland League
A third successive title and promotion was secured when they won Division One in 2008–09, with the club also winning the league's Challenge Cup, a trophy they won again in 2010–11. Although the club finished bottom of the Premier Division in 2011–12 and
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, they were not relegated to Division One. However, they resigned from the league midway through the 2013–14 season. The club was reformed as Castle Vale Town and in 2016 they joined the Division Three of 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 ...
, formed in 2014 by a merger of the Midland Combination and the Midland Alliance. In their first season they finished bottom of Division Three.


Season-by-season record


Coaching staff


Honours

*Midland Combination **Division One champions 2008–09 **Division Two champions 2007–08 **Division Three champions 2006–07 **Challenge Cup winners 2008–09, 2010–11 **Challenge Vase winners 2007–08


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, 2010–11 *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: Second qualifying round 2009–10, 2012–13


References


External links


Official website
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