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Founded in 1889, only one year after the Football League, the Midland League was the second league for professional clubs to be formed. Eleven clubs participated in the first season, 1889–90, four of whom (including the first champions, Lincoln City) would go on to achieve Football League status. The eleven founder members came from six counties.
The following is a list of clubs who played in the original Midland Football League from its formation in 1889 until it closed in 1982. [1]
The club voted out of the Football League. 1903–04: Midland League: 34 13 5 16 58 55 +3 31 11th of 18: Joe Moran: 12 The club elected to the Football League. 1904–05: Football League Second Division: 2 34 3 2 29 23 81 -58 8 18th of 18: James Carnegie George McGhee Bob Norris Bert Shinner: 3 3,000 The club voted out of the Football League ...
Lincoln failed to gain re-election to the League three times between 1909 and 1920; on each occasion, they won the championship of the league to which they had been demoted, either the Midland League or, in 1912, the Central League, and made an immediate return to the Football League. [1] [3]
Oxford elected from Southern Football League. 1969–70: Bradford Park Avenue: Cambridge United: Cambridge elected from Southern Football League. 1971–72: Barrow: Hereford United: Hereford elected from Southern Football League. 1976–77: Workington: Wimbledon: Wimbledon elected from Southern Football League. 1977–78: Southport: Wigan Athletic
1984–85 Champions Southern Lge Mid Div. Runners up Worc Senior Cup. 1985–86 Winners Birmingham Senior Cup. 2006–07 Runners up in West Midlands Premier League Cup. 2006–07 Runners up in Birmingham Midweek Floodlit Cup. 2022-23 Midland Football League Division One Champions.
The Midland Football League, officially known as the Capelli Sport Midland Football League [1] 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 Midland Combination. [2] The league has four divisions that sit at levels 9–12 of the football pyramid.
Three years later, they won the Midland League title, repeated the feat the following year, and were runners-up the next. Applications for election to the Football League were unsuccessful, but in the hope of a better class of football, they had one season in the Midland Combination, primarily a reserve league for Football League clubs, before ...