Brierley Hill Alliance F.C.
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Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. was an English football (soccer) club based in Brierley Hill in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.
The club was among the founder members of the Birmingham & District League in 1890 and the team were league champions on two occasions and runners-up on four occasions.[1] The club was also notable for being involved in the first ever FA Cup match to be played under floodlights, when they took on Kidderminster Harriers in 1955.[2][3]
Alliance also won the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1932–33,[4] 1936–37, 1951–52 and 1952–53.[5]
The last known season in which the club played was 1980–81,[1] after which it seems to have folded.
The only football club now based in Brierley Hill is Brierley Hill & Withymoor.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Brierley Hill Alliance at the Football Club History Database
- ^ Bateson, Bill; Albert Sewell (1992). News of the World Football Annual 1992/93. Harper Collins, 223. ISBN 0-85543-188-1.
- ^ The FA
- ^ Black Country Bugle
- ^ Birmingham FA (PDF document)
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