Earlswood Town Football Club is a

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club based in

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, near

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, England. They are currently members of the and play at The Pavilions on Malt House Lane. Former

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is a vice-president while ex-

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goalkeeper Ben Foster is club patron.

History

The club was originally known as Churchgreen United.Who are we?
Earlswood Town F.C. They were renamed Earlswood Town in 1968, at which point they were playing in the West Midlands Metropolitan League. The club joined the Mercian League in 1971 and won the league's Queens Hospital Cup in 1972–73.Honours list
Earlswood Town F.C. After winning the Aston Villa Shield in 1978–79, the club were Premier Division runners-up the following season and went on to win the Premier Division title in 1981–82. They then moved up 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 ...

, which was renamed Division Two in 1983. Earlswood won the Midland Combination's Challenge Vase in 2002–03 and retained the trophy the following season. A fourth-place finish in 2007–08 saw them promoted to Division One. The club were runners-up in Division One in 2009–10, and after moving to Pilkington XXX's Triplex Ground in order to meet the ground grading criteria for the Premier Division, the club won the Division One title the following season, earning promotion to the Premier Division. When the Midland Combination 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

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in 2014, Earlswood were placed in Division Two. Despite finishing bottom of Division Two in 2015–16 and 2018-19, the club avoided relegation. Ahead of the 2023/24 campaign, The Earls launched a fully-fledged junior section for the first time in the club's history with U7 to U10 sides competing in the Central Warwickshire Youth Football League.

Ground

The club moved to Lady Lane in Earlswood in 1966, before relocating to the Pavilions on Malt House Lane in 1970. In 2010 the club moved to Pilkington XXX's Triplex Ground in

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in order to be meet the ground grading criteria to be promoted to the Midland Combination Premier Division. In 2012 the club relocated to Studley's Beehive ground, and played the 2013/14 season at Bromsgrove Sporting's Victoria Ground before later returning to the Pavilions ground. For the 2023/24 season only, the club announced a ground naming rights agreement with Yakinori, a Japanese restaurant chain.

Honours

*Midland Combination **Division One champions 2010–11 **Challenge Vase winners 2002–03, 2003–04 *Mercian League **Premier Division champions 1981–82 **Queens Hospital Cup winners 1972–73 **Aston Villa Shield winners 1978–79

Records

*Best

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performance: Extra-preliminary round, 2012–13, 2013–14 *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: First round, 2013–14

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