Mercian Regional Football League

The Mercian Regional Football League
Country  England
Founded 2012
Divisions Premier Division
Division One
Number of teams 29
Level on pyramid 13, 14 and 15
Feeder to West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two
Domestic cup(s) Premier Division Cup
Division One Cup
Division Two Cup

SFA:
Challenge Cup
Junior Challenge Cup
Current champions Oswestry Town
(2015-16)
Website League website

The Mercian Regional Football League is an English association football league based in the county of Shropshire. It was formed for the 2012–13 season, with all member clubs of the dissolved Shropshire County Premier Football League (except for Newport Town who were promoted) transferring membership across.[1][2] Several teams from the Telford Combination, which also folded at the end of the 2011–12 season, also became members of the Mercian League and joined either Division One or Two.

The league sits at the same levels of the English football league system as the previous Shropshire County and Telford Combination leagues did (levels 13, 14 and 15). It does not however form part of the National League System, though the longer-term aim of the league's organisers is to have the highest division of the league at Step 7 of the System (level 11).

All scores of the league's Saturday afternoon games are read out on BBC Radio Shropshire, around an hour after full-time.

The league is named after the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, which covered this area of England.

Member clubs 2016-17

In the current season, the Premier Division consists of 12 teams and Division One has 17 teams.

Premier Division

Russell's Meadow, Church Stretton
Team name Home ground
AFC Bridgnorth Reserves Crown Meadow, Bridgnorth
Childs Ercall Jubilee Hall Playing Fields, Eaton Road, Child's Ercall
Church Stretton Russell's Meadow, Church Stretton
Clee Hill United Knowle Sports Ground, Knowle
FC Hodnet Hodent Social Club, Hodnet
Gobowen Celtic Gobowen Playing Fields, Gobowen, Shropshire
Madeley Sports Phoenix Sports Centre, Dawley
Oakengates Athletic Ketley Recreation Ground, Bank Way, Ketley Bank, Telford
Prees United Prees Cricket and Recreation Club, Brades Road, Prees
Rock Rovers Sports Village, Sundorne, Shrewsbury
Shifnal United Phoenix Park, Coppice Green Lane, Shifnal
Wrockwardine Wood New Road, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford

Division One

Team name Home ground
AFC Broseley Birchmeadow, Cockshutt Lane, Broseley
AFC Shifnal Idsall School Playing Fields, Shifnal
Albrighton FC Loak Road, Albrighton
Brown Clee Hall Meadow, Cleobury North
Coven United Marsh Lane, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton
Craven Arms Town Newington Way, Craven Arms
Denso DENSO Manufacturing, Hadley Park, Telford
Madeley Sports Reserves Bluebell Park, Sutton Way, Madeley
Newport Town Reserves Shuker Field, Newport
Oakengates Rangers Oakengates Leisure Centre, New Rd, Wrockwardine Wood, Telford
Oswestry Town Reserves The Venue, Park Hall Stadium, Oswestry
Riverside Oldbury Wells School, Bridgnorth
Shrewsbury Juniors Unison Sports Club, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury
St. Georges United Ketley Recreation Ground, Bank Way, Ketley Bank, Telford
Stoke Heath Warrant Road, Market Drayton
St. Martins Reserves Overton Road Playing Fields, Oswestry
Whitchurch Alport Reserves Yockings Park, Whitchurch

League champions

The following teams have won the Premier Division, gaining promotion to West Midlands (Regional) League Division Two.

Season Premier Division Runners-Up Division One Division Two
2012–13 AFC LudlowTelford JuniorsMadeley SportsChilds Ercall
2013–14 Oakengates AthleticChurch StrettonChilds ErcallAFC Broseley
2014–15 Telford JuniorsFC HodnetAFC BroseleyStoke Heath
2015–16 Oswestry TownAllscottStoke HeathMadeley Sports Reserves

See also

References

  1. FA Full Time Dissolution of the Shropshire County Premier Football League
  2. Shropshire Star Big shake-up of Shropshire football league system (10 March 2012)
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