Whitchurch Alport Football Club is an English football club based in

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. The club participates in the .

History

The club were formed in 1946 in the football season that followed

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, being named after Alport Farm in Alport Road, Whitchurch, which had been the home of Coley Maddocks, a local footballer who had been killed in action in the war. They joined the Shrewsbury and District League, spending two seasons in the league, winning the title in their second season. In 1948 they were briefly elected as members of the Birmingham League, before becoming founder members of the

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. In 1974 they became the last English team to take the Welsh Amateur Cup out of Wales prior to its becoming the Welsh Intermediate Cup, defeating

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2–1 at

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, Newtown. They were admitted to the

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Division One from the

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in 2015. On 24 September 2019, Alport lifted the

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for the first time – defeating reigning champions

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3–1 in the final at

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. At the end of the 2020–21 season the club were transferred to the Premier Division of the

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Ground

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shortly after the end of

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Honours

**Winners 1969–70 **Runners-up 1949–50, 1954–55, 1970–71, 1977–78 *Shrewsbury & District League **Winners 1947–48 * Welsh Amateur Cup/Welsh Intermediate Cup **Winners 1973–74 **Runners-up 1958–59, 1976–77 *

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**Winners 1969–70, 1997–98 **Runners-up 1995–96 *Shropshire County FA Huddersfield Cup **Winners 2018–19 *

**Winners 2019

References

External links

* {{Midland League Football clubs in England North West Counties Football League clubs Whitchurch, Shropshire Football clubs in Shropshire Association football clubs established in 1946 1946 establishments in England Midland Football League

History

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Honours

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