Birmingham United Football Club is a football club originally representing the village of

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, near

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, in

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. Members of the , the club are currently based in nearby

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and play at the Valley Stadium.

History

The club was established in 1992 as a Sunday league team under the name Spar Barnt Green, joining Division One of the Bromsgrove & District League. In their first season they won the Gordon Bridgwater Cup and the LMS Shield.League records
Bromsgrove & District League They retained the LMS Shield the following season, before the 1994–95 season saw them finish as runners-up in Division One, as well as winning the Gordon Bridgwater Cup, the LMS Shield and the Advertiser & Messenger Cup. In 1997 the club 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 le ...

as Barnt Green Spartak. After finishing eighth in 1999–2000, they were promoted to Division Two. The club went on to win Division Two in 2002–03, earning promotion to Division One. The following season saw them win Division One at the first attempt, resulting in promotion to the Premier Division. They won the Worcestershire Senior Urn in 2006–07, beating

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2–1 in the final. In 2008 the club was renamed GSA Sports. However, they left the league at the end of the 2009–10 season. Barnt Green Spartak was re-established in 2012 and joined Division Two of the Midland Combination. After winning the division in

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

they were promoted to Division One. The Midland Combination merged with the Midland Alliance in 2014 to form the Midland League, with Barnt Green placed in Division Two. In February 2023 they were renamed Birmingham United.

Ground

After groundsharing with

at Lye Meadow, the club moved to Sporting Khalsa's Abbey Park Stadium in

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in 2009. When the club was reformed in 2012, home games were initially played at Pilkington XXX. The club subsequently moved to the Coppice, the home ground of Highgate United before relocating to Earlswood Town's Pavilions ground prior to the 2018–19 season. In 2023 the club moved to

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's Valley Stadium.

Honours

*Midland Combination **Division One champions 2003–04 **Division Two champions 2002–03, 2012–13 *Bromsgrove & District League **Gordon Bridgwater Cup winners 1992–93, 1994–95 **LMS Shield winners 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95 **Advertiser & Messenger Cup winners 1994–95 *Worcestershire Senior Urn **Winners 2006–07

Records

*Best

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competit ...

performance: Preliminary round, 2007–08 *Best

FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, usually referred to as the FA Vase, is an annual football competition for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English National League System (or equivalently, tier 9 or 10 of the overall English footb ...

performance: Second round, 2004–05

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